Graphics: Influence Histograms
Optimization Week Issue #25, May 17, 2004
Histograms have a way of repeating themselves. You can avoid the banding blues by influencing your histograms to weight color palettes towards abrupt transition zones in your images. By using strategically placed selections you can tweak your histogram, and the resulting palette towards areas likely to create banding.
- Graphics: Influence Histograms
- Histogram influencing minimizes banding in GIFs and PNGs by weighting color palettes towards problem areas. Lower banding at lower bit-depths makes for smaller images.