On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 13:13 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > My monitor is not a CRT, but I think it's pretty good: it's a Samsung 2253BW > LCD, from 2008. Not sure if this tells you much, but on this monitor I can > easily distinguish every shade in the color scale from dpreview.com: > > http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/dpreview.com-color-scale.jpg > > But I don't think this is a monitor issue. Here's an image of a gradient > that > I found on the web: > > http://nodivisions.com/stuff/ext_posts/smooth-gradient.jpg > > On my monitor, that looks extremely smooth: I need to blow it up to ~200% > before I see the striations, and even then they're nowhere near as rough > looking as in the gradient I created in GIMP. Is that because this is a > color > gradient whereas my GIMP gradient is in gray?
Oh, are you trying to create this gradient on an image in gray-scale mode? If you do that, then you are effectively disabling dithering. Dithering works by introducing errors and the full RGB color-space is needed for such dithering to yield the desired result. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
