Re: Off topic: banding in gradients
Re: Off topic: banding in gradients
- Subject: Re: Off topic: banding in gradients
- From: Darrian Young <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:43:38 +0100
tflASH wrote:
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When I make grayscale gradients in Photoshop 6 in Adobe RGB mode the image
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contains banding on my monitor. I messed with it in grayscale and lab modes
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too with no betterment. Many people on the forum concurred with me, and the
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consensus from this group was to add noise to the gradient to meliorate the
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situation (but this doesn't give me the nice smooth grads I'm looking for).
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Others said they don't see the banding at all in such gradients and it must
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be a display card situation. We all agreed that we were viewing the
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gradients with our monitors set to millions of colors (my situation is a
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Lacie electron 22 blue, Mac G4 (AGP graphics) w/ 16 meg video RAM, system
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9.04, PS6).
A bad or "large" monitor profile can cause this banding behavior. Just a
couple of many possibilities as to why this is occurring.
Regards.
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Darrian Young
Microgestio Valencia