Gradients looking terrible?

T8TRG8TR

I just created a few basic images in inkscape and brought them in to GS. They looked fine and I made them the correct sizes (even numbers). They are sized to be retina graphics. The gradients in them look terrible. Is there a way to fix this/am I doing something wrong. I've been using inkscape for awhile and have never noticed this.

T8TRG8TR

Is there a way to add noise in inkscape?

TouchTiltGames

@everyone - You shouldn't have to do that. Do they look fine when u preview them in Finder? What format are u saving? Are they lossless?

T8TRG8TR

They look fine in the finder and the preview but not when I use the GS viewer.

T8TRG8TR

@everyone I'll try the noise idea since I already have gimp. Hopefully it works.

Thanks for the help!

Clouds

Word on the street (er . . . Ok, on this form) is that the file needs to have transparency to show up as a smooth gradient on IOS devices - so try inserting a transparent pixel somewhere on your file and make sure transparency is checked when expoting.

TouchTiltGames

Gradient banding is only an issue if you save your image with some lossy. A 24 bit png will not have banding. Or an 8bit for that matter...just depends on how many colours u want. A jpg with less than ~70% lossy will too. But yes there are tricks with image compression and dithering (noise) too.

Clouds

@RKS

"That makes the files huge. Add 1 transparent pixel or 1 row of transparent pixels on the side."

Make sure you add 2 rows of pixels (one each side) . . . . (odd pixel width / height = soft images).

LumpApps

I agree with T. When you save the file as a PNG and minimize the cplo(u)r table the file size it shouldn't be to big.
I never tried the extra pixel trick, sounds promising!

Cheers,
L

Rob2

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/266495#Comment_266495
and with simpler gradients 256 colour files will work - what you don't want is unchecked palette changes ;)