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Once again the ole banding issue. Is there any tricks to creating a grad without getting the banding. The aliasing feature in Action doesnt get rid of it. Was in a HD project and needed a simple grad. Ended up having to do it in Photoshop. Any suggestions.
If you have it, I would suggest the Tinder plug-in.
Are you working in 8bit or 10. You might try 10bit. You could also try a gausian blur on Y
VOODOO wrote:Once again the ole banding issue. Is there any tricks to creating a grad without getting the banding. The aliasing feature in Action doesnt get rid of it. Was in a HD project and needed a simple grad. Ended up having to do it in Photoshop. Any suggestions.tinder is good, another trick is to add some grain
I dont have tinder and I tried the blur but still didnt work. A blue to black grad. The blue no likely and creates a problem. Ill have to continue to investigate.
What if you create a big frame, 4k at 12 bits, and then resize it down?
Ill try that and see what happens. Thanks.
noise 😀
joni wrote:noise 😀?
That is one thing Quantel boxes do very well. Create seamless grads in 8 bit.
VOODOO wrote:Was in a HD project and needed a simple grad. Ended up having to do it in Photoshop.Be interested to know what was different about the Photoshop grad, compared to the Flame one… maybe Photoshop dithers its gradients.
Adding a tiny bit of noise is the way to fix it. Needn’t feel bad about it either – right from the invention of digital systems people with pointy heads have known that you have to add a little noise to mask quantisation artifacts – but people rarely bother. Well, people other than Quantel, who even have a fancy trademarked name for what everyone else calls dither 🙂
Any kind of monitor calibration makes this worse, annoyingly, especially in 8 bit. Can you guys see the banding on a 10 bit broadcast CRT while working in 12 bit in Flame?
It was (is) called “Dynamic Rounding©”
adding grain/noise – to form some sort of dithering effect – just enough to kill the banding issues (gaussian – i think – something fine and smooth) usually help
commonly for gradients – id just add grain to the darker color – in your case black – sometimes id try to add it just on the luma
and… sometimes multiple shades/hues – might be a solution – eg skyblue+blue+deep blue+royal blue…til gets to black… er… bottom line chances are from color A to color B sometimes do produce banding issues and youd have to introduce like an “intermediate” color to smoothen the gradient.
oh blending modes are also quite useful to produce “nice gradients”
whew – 🙄 – hope theres something useful here
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