2 Quick Ways to Fix Banding in Photoshop!
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Tom
For my project, I had the benefit that it was something I was creating within Photoshop. I had some intersecting gradients and got banding. At first I tried just adding noise, but when that just resulted in noisy bands, I had the 16-bit a ha moment. See, my video editor uses floating-point operations when processing the image. That means there are shades between the shades, and there are whites that are whiter than white, and blacks that are darker than black. And then it gets collapsed to 8-bit right at the end. Using a 16-bit middle man before the blur and the noise makes a ton of sense.
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For my project, I had the benefit that it was something I was creating within Photoshop. I had some intersecting gradients and got banding. At first I tried just adding noise, but when that just resulted in noisy bands, I had the 16-bit a ha moment. See, my video editor uses floating-point operations when processing the image. That means there are shades between the shades, and there are whites that are whiter than white, and blacks that are darker than black. And then it gets collapsed to 8-bit right at the end. Using a 16-bit middle man before the blur and the noise makes a ton of sense.
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Erik
When this didn't work for my specific image (a lightly graded sky, I got frustrated and tried upgrading the image to 32-bit and then back down to 16 bit. I have no idea what I did or how it worked, but I feel I've cheated the system somehow and will pay in the end. I just can't figure out how there's any detriment to doing it this way. Thoughts?
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When this didn't work for my specific image (a lightly graded sky, I got frustrated and tried upgrading the image to 32-bit and then back down to 16 bit. I have no idea what I did or how it worked, but I feel I've cheated the system somehow and will pay in the end. I just can't figure out how there's any detriment to doing it this way. Thoughts?
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Ana
I got this problem today while working on the background for an illustration. It surprised me because I have done gradients before without this problem. Noise and grain didn't seem to work so well (it somehow created different bands, but using a texture to hide this effect had a better result. Thank you for the excellent explanations! :)
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I got this problem today while working on the background for an illustration. It surprised me because I have done gradients before without this problem. Noise and grain didn't seem to work so well (it somehow created different bands, but using a texture to hide this effect had a better result. Thank you for the excellent explanations! :)
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Jeff
Neither worked. Had to blur so much the stage the ballerinas were on looked out of focus and still could see some banding. Texture did not hide the banding even at 100%. My banding is the result of artificial light flicker when shutter speed was high to stop action, so horizontal bands.
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Neither worked. Had to blur so much the stage the ballerinas were on looked out of focus and still could see some banding. Texture did not hide the banding even at 100%. My banding is the result of artificial light flicker when shutter speed was high to stop action, so horizontal bands.
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Cookwithnikki
I just learned more from this one video than I did in a Photoshop class in college. Amazing, and exactly what I was looking for because banding has been a huge issue for me (plus masking, but that's another story! Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!
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I just learned more from this one video than I did in a Photoshop class in college. Amazing, and exactly what I was looking for because banding has been a huge issue for me (plus masking, but that's another story! Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!
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Karen
Thank you so much! You're the best! I just used your first technique to get rid of a ton of noisy colored pixels that was ruining one of my images. It was an older one from 2006 and not the best quality, but it looks so much better now.
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Thank you so much! You're the best! I just used your first technique to get rid of a ton of noisy colored pixels that was ruining one of my images. It was an older one from 2006 and not the best quality, but it looks so much better now.
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Elion
ive just tried the surfuce blur with a picture of mine but it didnt help at all, in fact it did the oposite, made it worse. quite worse.
what gives?
its a great quality picture so i really dont get it
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ive just tried the surfuce blur with a picture of mine but it didnt help at all, in fact it did the oposite, made it worse. quite worse.
what gives?
its a great quality picture so i really dont get it
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Toro
Can someone help me? everytime I open my jpg from camera memory card in Photoshop I always get banding. But if I open it in Lightroom first then choose to edit it in Photoshop the banding is gone, why is that?
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Can someone help me? everytime I open my jpg from camera memory card in Photoshop I always get banding. But if I open it in Lightroom first then choose to edit it in Photoshop the banding is gone, why is that?
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Usual
This is really a difficult technique. you be better off replacing the background. the compression on my he video is not great probably because you record in 8-bit. Anyway Im sure the image looks different.
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This is really a difficult technique. you be better off replacing the background. the compression on my he video is not great probably because you record in 8-bit. Anyway Im sure the image looks different.
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Andrew
Thank you so much Prof. Dinda! Sometimes I forget to make sure that Im working in 16 bit, and this video really saved me a ton of time, trying to go back and re-edit after having built layers already!
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Thank you so much Prof. Dinda! Sometimes I forget to make sure that Im working in 16 bit, and this video really saved me a ton of time, trying to go back and re-edit after having built layers already!
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Karen
Your video was very clear and easy to follow. I also appreciated the text instructions as well as the verbal instructions. I feel confident that I can try this on my photos and find success.
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Your video was very clear and easy to follow. I also appreciated the text instructions as well as the verbal instructions. I feel confident that I can try this on my photos and find success.
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PHenn
You can also achieve this with the Frosted Glass filter set to 100% scale, smoothness of 1 and a strength from 1-5. This will effectively dither your background and eliminate banding.
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You can also achieve this with the Frosted Glass filter set to 100% scale, smoothness of 1 and a strength from 1-5. This will effectively dither your background and eliminate banding.
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Kenny
This is fine for flat backgrounds of solid colour but if it is a regular background with nice in camera bokeh, you can't really get rid of it without also ruining the background.
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This is fine for flat backgrounds of solid colour but if it is a regular background with nice in camera bokeh, you can't really get rid of it without also ruining the background.
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Mordecai
To anyone who still has this problem:
go to color management and try changing color profile and see if it helps or check your monitor menu and change color settings there.
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To anyone who still has this problem:
go to color management and try changing color profile and see if it helps or check your monitor menu and change color settings there.
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Damin
Well, when you literally have to imagine that the process works because the video doesn't show any improvement, I'm not sure it can necessarily be considered a successful video.
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Well, when you literally have to imagine that the process works because the video doesn't show any improvement, I'm not sure it can necessarily be considered a successful video.
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Test
When i edit my photos it looks best in my PC but in my phone the photos become horrible and has horrible colors, extreme sharp, etc how can i fix this?
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When i edit my photos it looks best in my PC but in my phone the photos become horrible and has horrible colors, extreme sharp, etc how can i fix this?
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Laura
I just found this video and I needed it a few days ago. I had to post the photo with banding. I hate it.
PS: Didn't know it was called banding.
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I just found this video and I needed it a few days ago. I had to post the photo with banding. I hate it.
PS: Didn't know it was called banding.
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Prem
my computer is taking forever to apply the surface blur on an 8 MP photo. is it normal? everything else works fine on my computer
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my computer is taking forever to apply the surface blur on an 8 MP photo. is it normal? everything else works fine on my computer
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Jeff
Thank you very much sir. This is incredible. I have this very beautiful product shot that has lots of banding, now I can fix it.
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Thank you very much sir. This is incredible. I have this very beautiful product shot that has lots of banding, now I can fix it.
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Forest
Followed the steps and still banding. ust want a smooth gradient. Strange that you can't do a simple gradient in photoshop.
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Followed the steps and still banding. ust want a smooth gradient. Strange that you can't do a simple gradient in photoshop.
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