How to remove Gradient stepping in you Windows Phone 7 background
I am currently in the final stages of my new Windows Phone 7 application which is a Christmas countdown, But while finishing off the UI, I ran into a irritating issue where if I used a gradient fill option in my application, the stepping (where one colour starts and another stops) was visible, making the application look a bit rough on the eye. Now when viewing the image on a monitor, due to the amount of colours your monitor can handle you don’t see the stepping as you do on your windows phone device, So everything looks fine and dandy. But after looking around the internet, I found that many people who print gradients get the same issue, due to the amount of colours some printers are limited to printing. So I decided to apply the same method to get around my issue. Its quick and simple to to apply, all you need to do is add a 2/5% blur to the image, which you cant actually see and doesn’t effect the sharpness of the image enought to casue , this can be applied either as filter or effect available in most image editing packages, the stepping disappears.
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