Re: .gif background vs. hex color

At 03:21 PM 1/11/99 -0600, you wrote:

Hi Karen!

I would suggest you create a "background.gif" with the same background
color as your images.  The browser will tile it for your background color,
and it should be a perfect match for the background on your images.

HTH,

Mike

>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
>
>
mjm
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