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NiLuJe · 01-10-2015, 08:52 AM

@davidfor: Yup, affects vanilla covers too. The closer I could get to describing it is banding, if that makes sense for grayscale

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You can replicate the effect by reducing a grayscale image to 16 shades without dithering (which I guess is basically what the software/hardware on the Kobo is doing, since dithering is relatively expensive).

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NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,506 Karma: 26047202 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	@davidfor: Yup, affects vanilla covers too. The closer I could get to describing it is banding, if that makes sense for grayscale . You can replicate the effect by reducing a grayscale image to 16 shades without dithering (which I guess is basically what the software/hardware on the Kobo is doing, since dithering is relatively expensive). Attached Thumbnails Last edited by NiLuJe; 01-10-2015 at 08:55 AM.