Juicy Tools

(we've tried blends in Quark, spot colors versus CMYK, CMYK tiff gradients, greyscale tiff gradients with colors appied to them, etc.) and we're still experiencing banding problems. We experience this banding on every printer to varying degrees. We experience this problem visibly on our monitors some of the time.

We've tried creating gradients different ways and are still experienceing problems with gradient banding.
If anyone else has experinced similar problems, PLEASE HELP!

Answer:
You can prevent banding by going to under the Filter menu, under Noise, and choosing Add Noise. When the Add Noise dialog appears, for Amount choose 3%, for Distribution choose gaussian, and make sure you turn on the Monochromatic checkbox at the bottom of the dialog. Click OK and a tiny bit of noise will be applied. The noise may be slightly visible onscreen, but will disappear when printed at high resolution.**

**Thanks to Scott Kelby, Editor...Photoshop User Magazine.

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