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adamgmakarenko
adamgmakarenko
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August 23, 2018
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Photoshop banding solutions

  • August 23, 2018
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I've been at this a long time, and banding has always been a problem with different gradients

For some reason AE can handle banding in a much better way with gradients versus photoshop.. My question: Is engine is better?

What I do is  end up transferring PSD files to AE to finish them...  

...of course this is also after employing all the tricks. ie noise, and 16 bit in photoshop.   AE's noise and banding seems to be much less, and cleaner

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adamgmakarenko
adamgmakarenkoAuthor
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August 23, 2018

Mac Book 13" late 2011

I work in 16 bit  -- but look at the differences between AE and PS .. There is a noticeable difference in quality on final renders.  Next time I work on a image I will do a side by side comparison and post it ... both are the newest versions.. but you could also be right about monitor and graphics card no doubt too ..thanks

JJMack
Community Expert
JJMackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 23, 2018

Are you editing in 16 bit color depth.  Your Display adapter and display may be 8bit and cause some banding and discoloration in your configuration.  Editing image in 16 bit color depth  where there is more possible colors will produce smoother gradients in images.  However, both should look nearly the same on your display. Though Photoshop can copy  and past 16bit color  to and from the clipboard into new document using clipboard preset when paste into jive here is become a 8bit PNG here

JJMack
adamgmakarenko
adamgmakarenkoAuthor
Participant
August 23, 2018

also one more thing to note is that I use multiple gradients, blur and then layer them that complicates the banding issue as well

I'll have to do a side by side comparison tonight and then post it here with all pertinent information ..

Thanks for your responses

Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
Sahil.Chawla
Adobe Employee
August 23, 2018

Hi Adam,

As you're seeing banding when you apply gradients in Photoshop, could you please let us know which exact version of Photoshop you're working on and which operating system are you using?

Also, which Graphics processor is installed in the computer?

Regards,
Sahil

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