I'm trying to create a radial background for this headshot:
First I created a fill layer with a radial gradient, but it created visible curves. Here's a 100% crop from the upper left - you can see the bands curving around from the bottom up to the right:
So then I rasterized the fill layer, but the curves are still there.
And no amount of gaussian blur gets rid of them.
The lines are visible in Photoshop; they're not an artifact of exporting to JPG.
Fill layers created in both 8-bit and 16-bit have the problem.
I can't believe it's not possible to create a smooth gradient.
First of all: What version of PS are you using? Second what monitor are you on? Do you have a high quality graphics card? I am on a Mac running PS CS3 and have no problems creating a radial gradient. I create a new file in 16 bit mode and create a new fill layer and select radial. I can zoom in 300% with 0 banding. I have a feeling it is either your monitor or the graphics card. Seeing the banding in the print because the print is done in an 8 bit world. Depending on the printer you have it may have a problem rendering smooth gradients in grayscale. You may need a printer with multiple blacks.
First of all: What version of PS are you using? Second what monitor are you on? Do you have a high quality graphics card? I am on a Mac running PS CS3 and have no problems creating a radial gradient. I create a new file in 16 bit mode and create a new fill layer and select radial. I can zoom in 300% with 0 banding. I have a feeling it is either your monitor or the graphics card. Seeing the banding in the print because the print is done in an 8 bit world. Depending on the printer you have it may have a problem rendering smooth gradients in grayscale. You may need a printer with multiple blacks.
I have an nVdia 6800 GT card, PS CS2, and a 20" monitor that's never had problems showing gradients before.
I'm not going to worry about it any more, though. After rasterizing it and adding a little noise, and then printing at full quality, they're gone. It was printing at draft quality that had them still showing up.
