> is this marketing wank? I don’t think so. There are lots of ways to end up with banding even if you try to keep it high bit depth. Photoshop quietly dithers

> is this marketing wank? I don’t think so. There are lots of ways to end up with banding even if you try to keep it high bit depth. Photoshop quietly dithers (usually invisibly on a monitor) when going from 16 or 32 bits per channel to 8. Last time I checked, Image Magick didn’t have that option, nor do other non-Photoshop options. I feel like I vaguely recall Image Magick doing blur in 8 bits, even when working in 16 bits? Cameras can sometimes spit out banded images as well. Certainly if you didn’t control the image, someone else might have added the banding. There’s a lot of 8-bit imagery out there, and no reason to assume that everyone in the world is working in 16 bits and is banding aware. On top of that, removing banding is obviously going to be difficult to do well, since it has to differentiate between which edges to blur and which to leave alone. This will definitely be useful and save time for working design/photography professionals.