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Hello friends, when I edit my black and white photos in Photoshop I always end up getting sky in rainbow layers like in the attached photo. Is there a good way of removing the layers or making them flat or anything else could be done. Thank you all kindly in advance for your help.
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Gradient banding is what happens when there isn't enough tonal range for the different colors in a gradient. You can fix it by increasing the image from 8 bit to 16 bit and applying a blur to the selected gradient. Here's an article I found that describes the issue more and gives steps for fixing it.
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Thank you Myra, I think it really helped. I tried one two different occassions and both came out well. Thank you very much.
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Try selecting the sky, and add a small amout of noise.
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Semaphoric, the combination of 16 bit and blur with little noise as suggested by Myra seems to work well. Thank you.
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Hi
First off work in 16 bits per channel which will avoid banding, however you may still see banding on your screen if you are not using a 10 bit monitor. That is on your display only though not in your image.
As suggested by Semaphoric, adding a little noise is effective at reducing banding if you are forced to work in 8 bits/channel
Dave
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Hello Dave, I tried 16 bit editing and blur around banding areas, it seems to be working for me so far mate, really appreciate. Cheers.