Hello!
How do people deal with color banding issues on the blue water areas? I understand it's a common problem on shots with skies, and for us, divers, shots with blue water. The two solutions I saw so far involve layers in Photoshop (which I don't have), and the other is to add grain in Lightroom, which I do use for processing. I've found that grain doesn't work that well and makes the whole image look crappier. Adding luminance, on the other hand, helped matters a bit, but still not great.
I'm also trying to make small-size photos that I can post on the web, and the color banding problem seems the more pronounced the smaller I try to make the photo. Is there any specific solution for small-size photos?
Lastly, I took all my photos in superfine-large-JPEG (Canon G16), but wondering if shooting in RAW would have alleviated the issue? I normally do macro, did one trip in RAW, thought it's a big hassel with little gain and went back to JPEG. Is it worth turning back to RAW, at least for wide-angle?
Thank you for the inputs!
How do people deal with color banding issues on the blue water areas? I understand it's a common problem on shots with skies, and for us, divers, shots with blue water. The two solutions I saw so far involve layers in Photoshop (which I don't have), and the other is to add grain in Lightroom, which I do use for processing. I've found that grain doesn't work that well and makes the whole image look crappier. Adding luminance, on the other hand, helped matters a bit, but still not great.
I'm also trying to make small-size photos that I can post on the web, and the color banding problem seems the more pronounced the smaller I try to make the photo. Is there any specific solution for small-size photos?
Lastly, I took all my photos in superfine-large-JPEG (Canon G16), but wondering if shooting in RAW would have alleviated the issue? I normally do macro, did one trip in RAW, thought it's a big hassel with little gain and went back to JPEG. Is it worth turning back to RAW, at least for wide-angle?
Thank you for the inputs!