r/graphic_design • u/MrMermaiid • 1d ago

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Hey guys, I’m not a graphic designer but a musician. I make very minimal cover art design for myself like this one because I don’t like thinking much about that side of things. I wanted to have a cool gradient vibe with the purple fading into the black since I usually just use full black and this is a special release. I hate however the way you can see each tone/layer of purple in this really pixely sort of way. Is that just inevitable since I’m using such simple colors, or did I do something wrong exporting and is there a way for it to look smoother?

Thanks in advance!

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u/q51 1d ago edited 1d ago

What software are you using to generate the image? Changing the bit-depth to 16 bit is how I’d fix this, but that’s in photoshop. You could also consider adding just a tiny bit of noise. It will be invisible, but will break up the banding.