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color banding question
hey all,
I’m sure you all have at one time or another, adjusted a picture or a gradient w/ hue/sat, levels, curves etc, until you get the colors you’re looking for, but what you’re also left with is horrible color banding. Are there any tricks to getting rid of this short of working in 16 bit comps? I’m blending and effecting a bunch of layers to get exactly the effect that I want, but now I’ve got to get rid of the extra banding that’s been added. Blurring for some reason, does not seem to help. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know 😀
Thanks!
-c
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2 Replies
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Try adding a touch of noise, or spreading the hues away from each other a bit if the image is rather monochromatic. There should be other tips if you search for “banding”.
Working in 16 bpc might be the solution though, as each operation on an image can cause truncation and banding, and 8 bpc might not survive.
Steve
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Yeah, I use about 4% noise on mine to kill banding (just on the layer that bands though). Ideally you want a dither plug-in which randomly moves pixes around to diffuse the bands. Don’t know who makes deband for AE though.
BTW Blur will make it worse. Take any picture and crank a gaussian blur way up. You’ll notice as the image heads closer to gray it will band like crazy.
Chris Smith
https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com
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