Banding in gradient creation

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Banding in gradient creation

by Bernhard S. :: Rate this Message:

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Hi guys.

I often get bands when I create gradients.

I'd like to know how this happends and how I can reduce or get rid of these
artifacts entirely.

Thanks.

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Re: Banding in gradient creation

by Paul Hartman-5 :: Rate this Message:

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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, bob <forums@...> wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I often get bands when I create gradients.
>
> I'd like to know how this happends and how I can reduce or get rid of these
> artifacts entirely.

Are you sure it's not your monitor? I have a Dell LCD monitor that has
this problem really badly... but on a different model it looks fine,
no banding.
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Re: Banding in gradient creation

by Aurore D. -2 :: Rate this Message:

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Eek, I send this to Paul H. only instead of the list, resending.
Apologies for the noise Paul.

>> I often get bands when I create gradients.
>>
>> I'd like to know how this happends and how I can reduce or get rid of these
>> artifacts entirely.
>
> Are you sure it's not your monitor? I have a Dell LCD monitor that has
> this problem really badly... but on a different model it looks fine,
> no banding.


You can try to use the Dithering option (and maybe the Adaptive
Supersampling option too) of the Gradient/Blend tool, if you don't
already.
See http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-blend.html#id2858083 - the
bottom option of the dialog

In general without dithering the gradients show banding.

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