: How do you ADD banding to a gradient? There are a million posts on the web about removing banding but I'd like to know how to add banding. I've found some polygonal images and would like

@Cugini998

A quick method to add banding is reducing the color depth of an image. When choosing an optimized palette for indexed output banding will be introduced at the color steps needed to reproduce the true color RGB source.

Examples:

RGB source



Indexed to 64 colors optimized palette:

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