Re: .gif background vs. hex color

Nothing easier than that.
Just make your current GIF with a transparent background and your problems
are gone.

Ramon Bartschat

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen A. Davis <lpl(at)ci.lawrence.ks.us>
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: 12 January 1999 00:24
Subject: .gif background vs. hex color


>I have created a .gif image in photoshop 5
>with a background color of R255
> G255
> B204
>
>This graphic has a information profile
>of 16-bit RGB true color which was then
>converted to indexed color and saved as
>a .gif.
>
>It has been placed on a web page whose
>background is intended to match exactly
>the background color of the .gif.
>
>On some monitors, however, the two colors
>are quite different shades of yellow and
>the difference is not acceptable at all.
>
>I'm wondering what I should be doing that
>I'm not doing in order to make the background
>color of the .gif match exactly the background
>color of the entire page.
>
>The whole thing may be viewed at-
>
>http://www.ci.lawrence.ks.us/govt2/recycling/r_index.html
>
>Can anyone advise me on this?
>
>TIA,
>
>karen
>

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