Photography Tips

One of the things you'll notice if you're a photographer, videographer, or motion graphics designer is color-banding artifacts when converting your work to 8-bit web formats. This happens because each color of an 8-bit image only has a color range of 256 values. So, say you have a sunset that's orange and shifts into purple or black. There might not be a large enough range of colors between those two shades to create a smooth transition between them. This is why you often don't notice these things in Lightroom, but they appear when you export to JPEG or H264 for the web. There are a few ways to fix this.