Hello folks, need help with something. If I create a gradient wall, or even d/l a wall with some form of a gradient, when it is applied as a wall, the colors resemble being rendered in 16 bit with very jagged distinctions in the gradient, no even flow from one shade to the other if you know what I mean. It doesn't matter if the image is a .bmp .png or .jpg. I have the options to compress set to the minimum levels to save it in PSP7, when saving as .jpg. That doesn't help. Also, color depth shows the properties of all the walls I open as maximum (I forget the numbers, either 16 or 24 million, whatever the max is.) I have a 22" Westinghouse monitor, with all the drivers for it and the vid card up to date to the best of my knowledge. Color is definitely set to 32 bit on the settings. I'm at work, so I can't post an example, don't know if it would matter if I did anyway, unless I took a photo of the screen. Here I have to use the standard corporate wall anyway. One example of this issue is the walls in the Blurred World pack. I want to use some, but they look terrible on my screen. Has anyone elxe come across this issue? If so, is there anything I can do to fix it. Thanks in advance.
09:26 am, Saturday, February 09, 2008 (1 year ago)
Are you applying these as stretch to fit instead of centred? And are they the correct size for your wallpaper? (At 22" that's probably 1280x1024 or 1650x1080 or whatever).
My res is 1650x1080. I remember making a gradient wall with those dimesions and applying it. Dont recall choosing stretch or center though. On that occasion, I got the jagged edges. I usally just right click and apply as background from "my pictures" so I guess it usaully stretches the walls since I know there are some that are definitely not 1650x1080. But even before, I know some of my walls weren't 1280x1024 and when I applied them to my old 17" crt, they were fine.
Yeah ... I don't know zoomed in that much I think it'd look the same on my monitor too ...
Though I'm also using a crappy old CRT monitor found in one of my friend's garage so who knows. I could compare to my mother's new laptop and see if those wallpapers look better though.
Okay so I am the laptop now and I just opened it up and looked at it again. I still see the deep outlines of the gradients I think that's just how the wallpapers are, not exactly perfectly smooth.
For instance the one of the first wallpaper I saw that I thought to myself "wow that's a dang smooth gradient" was that one by Imrik. Is that one smooth for you? Or some of the screen shots that only have a gradient wallpaper, some of those are really super smooth.
For in this particular instance the blurred world wallpapers aren't super smooth for me either.
Ahhh, no, that's just the whole gradient problem thing... For some reason, most image formats are shit and can't actually save a decent-looking smooth gradient, even if it looks perfect in Photoshop; as soon as you try to save it, it goes all pixelly and whatnot.
