Comments on: How To Correct Banding In Your Gradients Using Photoshop

By: eschelar

eschelar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:57:15 +0000

Good stuff. Useful!!!

I use smart filters. They allow tweaking and fine tuning of the filter effects after they have been applied. Awesome stuff!

I create a duplicate layer of my gradient layer and create smart object.

Then I add noise basically the same way as above as a smart filter. Opacity around 15-20%.
And ON TOP of that, I add a gaussian blur filter with a low pixel radius, between 1.2 and 1.8 pixels. Opacity around 30-40%. This effectively works as the opposite of the noise and can help to make the noise a bit larger which is SPECIFIC TO how large your image is. You will need bigger noise if your gradient has very visible shifts, especially at very high resolutions.

Then the final step is to use the smart filter mask to remove the effect where it becomes visible in medium-dark areas or whatever.

If you have a grey mask in CMYK, you may find it useful to use luminosity mode for the whole layer.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:51:43 +0000

nice try!

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By: Juan Turcios Photography

Juan Turcios Photography — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:02:17 +0000

You just saved my butt!!! Thanks!

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:55:34 +0000

THANK YOU!! I have been trying to figure this out forever and most of the solutions I have found online just didn't do the trick for me. This one worked like a charm.

By: dlv

dlv — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:09:16 +0000

excellent !!! I will try this technic
Banding are a small but huge problem at the same time

thanks for share your skills around this !

By: Martin Doersch

Martin Doersch — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:10:37 +0000

That's a great tip! Thanks a lot!
Martin