Gradient Banding
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- jevad
Trying to get a smooth gradient - lt grey to dark - in photoshop - but it keeps banding. never had a problem with this before.
Anyone know what's up?
- mg330
define "banding"
- mg330
(Oh, my GF said I could go to Breck, not like I had to ask, but I warned her that I might not come back to Chicago...happy...)
- sureshot0
radial or linear?
- spendogg0
Dither helps.
My shit better be tight YO!
- tehgee0
make sure youre mode is normal :P fo rilla
- jevad0
linear - and mode is normal!
- MLP0
what they said and make sure you're viewing at 100%... sometimes my monitor shows banding at smaller zooms
- jevad0
See here:
Looks shitty right?
wtf?
- mg330
yah, see what you mean. strange.
Maybe try changing the size of the gradient - like shortening it when you lay it down.
- jevad0
I've tried everything...this is fucken weird...never happened before....
- mitsurugi0
i think it depends on the colors being used and the amount of steps to get to the alternate color. you might want to try adding slight color to the grey or making the light darker or the dark lighter. if it's a photoshop gradient you can eliminate banding by going into separate color channels and adding small amounts of noise.
hope this helps.
- jevad0
cheers mitsurugi...I've never had to do that before though.
It's stumping me why this is happening now all of a sudden....
- tehgee0
you caught the suck :P!
- jevad0
fucking fuckity arse cakes bastard POS CUNT
- jevad0
Upond futher investigation it looks like it is a problem with teh greys. Colour gradients don't do it.
- thismanslife0
Um... it looks fine to me... did you somehow knock your computers system colours down (like, sub 16bit... thousands of colours instead of millions... or something?)
- jevad0
no I didn't james - checked all that. Are you looking at it on PC or mac?
- thismanslife0
Ok, upon closer inspection, it is a bit bandy I guess... I took it into photoshop, and redrew the gradient identical with dither switched off.... re-tick your dither mate, and its super-smooth :)
- jevad0
I tried that!!!!
- thismanslife0
Bugger! Serious, I totally got the same gradient as yours by turning dither off. When I switched it back on, it was perfect.
Weird.
Is your doc regular RGB (not CMYK or indexed colour or anything like that) ?