Photoshop banding
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- dMullins0
Dithering Is Everything
Adding dithering to a gradient produces smoother results. Non-dithered gradients often contain visible banding. Dithering is even more important if your artwork is being viewed on cheaper 6-bit per channel TN LCDs and certain display types that tend to amplify posterization problems.
Ensuring that your gradients are dithered is easy: just check the appropriate box in Photoshop. Note that gradient layer styles can’t be dithered, and gradients in placed objects (such as stuff you’ve pasted from Illustrator) aren’t dithered.
If you use transparency in a gradient, that won’t be dithered either, which can be a huge issue at times. There is a solution for some specific cases: if you’re using a gradient with transparency to lighten an area with white, then using a non-transparent gradient with a Screen Layer blending mode will let you dither it. The same technique can be used for darkening with the Multiply blending mode.
- ksv1230
try making them in illustrator
- orrinward0
Make a Barbershop Quartet called The Content Aware Phils.
- I was wondering how long it would take someone to trot one like that out.Continuity
- hahascarabin
- Claymantis0
thanks everyone
- scarabin0
i'm starting a photoshop band.
discuss.
- call it Clone Stampmetal_leg_will
- or Eyedroppermetal_leg_will
- FORCE QUIT 3000CanHasQBN
- no, no, no. Dodge and Burn ftwAmicus
- clone stamp. love it.scarabin
- Only play in marquees.
mikotondria3 - eyedropper! ahaahhahahformula
- The Unsharp MasksmonNom
- Channel Mixer
if you're a dj bandmonNom
- Continuity0
Noise layer + a touch of lens blur on it. Set layer transparency to between 1 and 3%. Done.
- monNom0
it's probably your monitor/profile, as photoshop produces silky smooth gradation in something like a black->white gradient.
try viewing in MonitorRGB, see if there's an improvement.
Ideally you should get a hardware puck and adjust your monitor controls to as close to neutral as possible before creating a monitor profile. Otherwise your profile battles with your hardware and you end up with banding and general ugliness.
- scenek0
in addition to noise, a small amount of spatter filter to get rid of the lines first helps
- lvl_130
What everyone else said...especially about the band noise.
- scarabin0
seems to happen most with subtle shades of black. not much you can do besides change your design or add noise
- CanHasQBN0
yeah dude! make some noise with that band.
- nato0
Add some noise.
- Claymantis
Can't seem to find a clear solution to banding in photoshop.
Any one know how to remedy this?
Thanks