Black to white gradient steps

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james_stables
Oct 21, 2006
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Hi, i have a macbook pro and running photoshop cs2. when i do a white to transparent gradient on a black background, i find that you can see the transition ‘step’ in a blocky way. i am guessing there are not enough grey colours to handle the gradient. does anyone know how i can set up photoshop to handle the gradient and make it smooth ? i also tried white to black on black background and got the same steppy result.

thanks for any help.

james
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Chris_Cox
Oct 21, 2006
Either move to 16 bits/channel, or add some noise (turning on dithering in the gradient options is a good start).
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Buko
Oct 21, 2006
there are only 256 steps from black to white in 8 bit grayscale
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james_stables
Oct 23, 2006
thanks for your help. it didnt seem to make a difference but i will find a way round it .

thanks again anyway.

james

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