amyyang

Okay, I'll start hunting for another lab.

So more on this banding issue I'm having. I've fixed the background using gradients and added a 10% noise layer. Still printing with banding. I have two questions now. 1. What is a reliable way to see that this is going to band, despite having added noise, when I can't see it in PS so I can stop blowing hundreds of dollar on prints I can't use? 2. What is the next step if adding the noise layer doesn't break up the banding?

And I should add that I increased the noise to 15% before I printed.

Even when I increase the noise layer opacity the lines are still there. Should it make them fade away? I'm getting both the horizontal lines and the diagonal lines in the print. This just seems insane to me. Have you encountered this before?

Well, I thought it went really well! Until I reprinted. I've attached a version where you can see the lines that printed in the background. I called Miller's because at this point I'm feeling like I want to just start yelling all the curse words I know and they said it's because their printers are so sensitive. I've never had this happen in four years of fading backgrounds and printing with other labs.

I've been looking around at how to make your background white, so what I did was make my background white and then do a solid color layer with the same mask in a cream. Then I lowered my mid tones and brightness some on the background. Will that work to prevent all the artifacts in print? Also, should I add a noise layer since I did a solid color fill layer?

Damien, I am having a heck of a time with this image printing horribly. All I wanted to do was clone out the line where the flooring meets the paper. I am getting all these artifacts in the prints though. I have tried to fix this twice and, while it is better the second time, The splotches are still there. I'm not sure what to do.