Problem with gradients

Hello,

I'm relatively new to Photoshop and have created some images with gradients in 24bit RGB color. I want them to display with the correct colors and no distortions when windows is set at 16 bit color. At the moment they don't, they have a wavy pattern with miscellaneous colors introduced across the gradients. As far as I am aware you can't create gradients on an indexed color image so the only option I see is creating the RGB image and then saving as an 8 bit gif,bmp or png but this doesn't correct the problem. I'm guessing I may need to create the gradients on an image with a color depth 16 bits or less but I don't think Photoshop allows it.


Would anybody have any suggestions?


Thanks very much,
Bob

well, the less colours you have, the more "wavy" it will get. You can't do anything about that, really. :|

Thanks for your reply...

I'm not sure it is the lack of colors causing the problem but rather the fact that I am trying to display a 24 bit image in windows 16 bit color mode. I wondered if there was any way to create a 16 bit or 8 bit image with gradients in Photoshop or any other program and save it a format that is 16 bits or less. I tried to create a gradient in Photoshop in an 8bit indexed color image and it wouldn't allow me to.

Regards,

Bob

[QUOTE=PaavoPerkele]well, the less colours you have, the more "wavy" it will get. You can't do anything about that, really. :|[/QUOTE]