Gradient Banding
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- thismanslife0
I'm PC BTW (Photoshop CS)
- jevad0
see....PC...I reckon this is a mac thing...it can't handle the grey transition for some reason...I bet you a dollar to a ppound when I go home and try the same thing on my PC - that it comes out perfectly smooth....
- kyl30
more gradient ram!
- jevad0
I'll kill you
- thismanslife0
There's a man on the edge right there.
Never joke about another mans gradients.
My thoughts are with you.
One.
:)
- kyl30
sorry, probably not a time for jokes.
- mr_snuggles0
I dunno what's happening, I've had it happen before too, as a workaround can you do it in Illy and bring it in to PS?
- jevad0
fuck a graident.
I wish nick would shit on this thread
- emokid0
it seems like the problem is with the grey color and not necessarily something that you are doing. and its not really that bad--i had to look at it a couple of times to notice the banding.
- jonnyquest0
your mac may just be defaulting to it's 1.8 gamma PC's usually have a 2.2 gamma on the monitor... i calibrate my mac with a 2.2 because it's a much nicer gamma. the 1.8 gamma is based on the dot gain curve of the ancient laserwriters... I find the 2.2 is much better when viewing fine gradients like the one you linked to. on my monitor here it looks fine (again i have the 2.2 gamma rather than the 1.8) just a thought.
- mata0
What Photoshop does is a transition between the two colours, say 90% black to 70% black. That gives you 20 steps of chnage as it were, and there are no half percents of colour - roll the cursor over and look at your info. This causes the banding, and it also creates a Chevreul illusion, highlighting the bands.
- _b_0
a "Chevreul illusion"...
holy heck matt, that sounds rully teknikul!
- mata0
I know this as my Mum gave me a book on "Incredible Visual Illusions" for xmas last year, all class!
- BikeMaker0
I ran into this same problem recently... I had checked all color settings and tested on multiple displays and narrowed down the cause of the banding glitch to overworking the layer... any scaling or other transforming of the gradient layer, or adding gradients ontop of gradients can cause it to band like that...
sucks but just scrap the layer and rebuild.