Strange Bands in Your Sky? Preventing and Fixing Color Banding in Post

Thomas Chu Photo

Color banding happens often in portrait shooting (solid-color backdrops) and landscape post-processing (gradient skies): what should be silky color turns into strange, blocky bands — enough to drive you mad.

Building on the article "Don't Let Color Banding Ruin Your Photos," this video goes further into the causes of banding, the 4 post-processing operations most likely to produce it, and 2 techniques for minimizing it.

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