Remove color banding
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Color banding is one of the most common image artifacts. It typically occurs in low-quality images, images that have been repeatedly exported using lossy image formats like JPEG, or 8-bit images that can physically store a limited number of colors. These artifacts are mostly visible wherever there is a gradual transition between shades of the same color. For instance, in photos of the sky. Instead of smoothly shifting between shades, colors jump abruptly from one to the next, forming distinct bands of color.
You can easily remove posterization and compression artifacts from images using the machine learning-powered Deband feature, which improves images with just a click.
Do any of the following:
Click Format > Deband from the Format menu at the top of your screen.
Press Shift ⇧
+ Control ⌃
+ B
on your keyboard.
💡 Tip: For best results when debanding, change the color depth of an image to 16 bits/Channel.