Gradient Banding in Indesign Displaying Wrong and Lines Everywhere

[vickin42001666]

Hey all - I wondered is anyone is having the same issues but my gradients used to be super smooth and never had any issues now every time I create gradients I seem to have very disinctive banding and it often transfers over to jpegs too. Also does the same with the gradient feather tool too. 

This is becoming a majot problem for me now and holding up most of my projects.

What can I do - is there a fix for this glitch? TIA 

[Bill Silbert]

Try turning off GPU Performance in InDesign preferences.

[vickin42001666]

Thanks for that but I don't have that option in my preferences. 

[Randy Hagan]

In addition to Bill's suggestion, another option you may want to consider would be to create your gradient as an Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop graphic and placing it in your InDesign document. It's an extra step, but it does produce good results.

Randy

[vickin42001666]

I am still having major issues with gradients - even feathered edges too - can anyone make any suggestions for settings on InDesign on a PC? TIA 

[Willi Adelberger]

As. Randy wrote, make it in Photoshop and add a small amount of noise to it. 

[rob day]

What is the color mode(s) of the colors you are blending? Does the banding happen when you zoom in or out? If you export to PDF does AcrobatPro show the banding?

[defaultl2dcn3pi5o8u]

are creating this for web or print?

like others have said, if the gradient is very important, I'd make it in illustrator or photoshop where I have more options to control the gradient, but InDesign is still okay.

You can swip-swap between GPU and CPU rendering under "VIEW" - it's the top option.

a tip for smooth gradients if you wish not to venture out of indesign is to use two gradients together, one just slight off from the other and blend it the way you see fit - this adds enough variation the make transitions easier.

[vickin42001666]

Thanks for that - I am on a PC and there is no option for that. 

[vickin42001666]

It never goes away - this only happened when I did a software update. It transfers to jpegs and PDFs too.

So frustrating.

Been using InDesign since it first came out and I have never had this issue before. 

[rob day]

Can you share an InDesign example along with the exported file that has the lines?

[John Mindiola III]

This happened to me, too! I think I found a fix, or at least a workaround. I noticed the faint stripes when two things were present: a shape with less than 100% opacity, and the view mode was "regular" or default. 

When I went to View > Overprint Preview, then the stripes went away, no matter if my graphic was 100% opacity or less.

It's definitely a weird bug. It never used to happen until a few weeks ago. Maybe the most recent update is the issue...? I don't know.

[Willi Adelberger]

It is not a bug. It is caused by printing. That is why anyone should add noise to smooth colors or gradients as I have written in my answer 2 Years ago. 

[John Mindiola III]

Banding of gradients is a printing thing. I know that. The issue the OP and I have is thin black lines — NOT banding — appearing in InDesign. 👍

[Willi Adelberger]

Is transpareny envolved, or transparency flatening? In InDesign, or in placed files or in export?

[John Mindiola III]

Good questions. I've noticed it happens sometimes, even on simple shapes that have a solid color at 100% opacity. So weird.

[Willi Adelberger]

What file type is it?

From which program does it come?

[John Mindiola III]

Good question. Just simple shapes in Adobe InDesign, but it also happens sometimes on placed images, especially if there's some transparency involved (like a product image with a separate shadow layer, from Photoshop). But, the Overprint Preview makes those thin black lines disappear. Also, when exporting the InDesign file to PDF, the PDF file doesn't show any thin black lines, so that's good.

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. Have you tried updating the display drivers? If not, please try that and if that doesn't help, please try re-installing the graphics driver and let us know if that resolves the issue or if you need further assistance. 

Thanks

Rishabh