I’m building a site, the page design has a strong PhotoShop gradation from gray to black and the Freeway Pro page background is set to black. This is intended to make the mostly gray home page look like its fading to full black on all four sides of the background.
The problem is that when Freeway Pro optimizes the jpeg creating the page layout, the gradient is banding badly when the page is previewed in both Freeway and in a browser. The banding is really visible, it does not look like a smooth fade away like it should.
Is there a way to change the level set to optimize files within Freeway Pro? I know how to do it in PhotoShop, but do I have similar quality controls within Freeway Pro preferences?
Is there a way to stop this banding in Freeway Pro?
Did you try exporting it as a GIF image with Dither checked? That typically works out well for gradients. Leave the color to be Adaptive if you choose to go this route. I’d also uncheck Bilinear.
If it must be a JPG then you can adjust the slider on the third button (the white square one next to the paintbrush) in the Inspector for quality.
Sometime around 5/1/10 (at 01:14 -0500) Dan J said:
If it must be a JPG then you can adjust the slider on the third
button (the white square one next to the paintbrush) in the
Inspector for quality.
As mentioned in a different thread, you’ll often get cleaner,
banding-free results from gradients if you add just a tiny bit of
noise in Photoshop first. It probably seems counter-intuitive, but it
does help.