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In trying to explain what a histogram was to a friend new to digital imaging, I opened a new document in PS CS and drew a black to white linear gradient from top to bottom, expecting to see a flat horizontal histogram.
However, the histogram is U shaped, implying that the PS linear gradient actually emphasizes the starting and ending colors.
Does anyone understand why photoshop does this to a linear gradient? Indeed, the gradient appears linear to me, so is this some compensation for the way we perceive such a variation. Very curious.
Note that I think this also would have some important implications for using linear gradients to tranparencies, or linear gradients in layer masks.
However, the histogram is U shaped, implying that the PS linear gradient actually emphasizes the starting and ending colors.
Does anyone understand why photoshop does this to a linear gradient? Indeed, the gradient appears linear to me, so is this some compensation for the way we perceive such a variation. Very curious.
Note that I think this also would have some important implications for using linear gradients to tranparencies, or linear gradients in layer masks.
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