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  1. #11
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    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    A gradient fill is in many respects a blend.

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    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    It is the darker colours that show the bands in the mid tone regions the most so why not break your screen area up into 3 separate areas. Then by using named colours in your gradient you then can make your gradient a lot smoother in your 3 separated areas. Also use the blend tool to get your palette for your named colours
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    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    It's amazing that this causes such a problem. I've encountered it myself and it requires serious thought if you really want to hide the banding. Clients spot it straight away. I tend to do large graduated fills restrained to one colour in Photoshop.

    @Xara: Is there really a serious technical reason this cannot be overcome in a future update/upgrade?
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    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
    Graident fills I believe, and I very well could be wrong about this, are limited to 256 steps. So the larger the fill area the wider the 256 steps.
    If that 256 steps limit is true, then really sounds good alternative the blend creation where higher steps can be entered

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    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    I should think a Blend of 999 steps should be enough for most.

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  6. #16

    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    This, screen representation, is where CorelDraws being able to set the number of steps of a gradient comes in handy. Doesn't change the PostScript output, but it does a good job for exporting bitmaps.

  7. #17

    Default Re: Smoother fills on large objects

    How about creating a a large multi step blend?

 

 

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