Re: Photo touch-up

While on a grassy hilltop in Northern Spain, surrounded by goats, Jennifer
Appleton wrote:

>I have picked a color for the background under Photoshop to paste
>the photo on but how do I get the exact color match for the web page.
>
>I recalled sometime ago, someone on the list was talking about
>RGB/hexadecimal convertion.  Is this what I have to do?
>
>Best Regards & Merry Christmas!
>Jennifer Appleton
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I don't have too much experience in this area, but yes, you can view-->
info and run the dropper tool across the background and read the RGB on the
info palette, but as far as converting it to Hexadecimal, I'm not sure. If
you could find out how to convert the numbers (and I know someone knows),
you'd be ok (hopefully; most people have a lot of problems with
this--especially jpg format).....but then there's platform differences(?)

I know you are thinking that the background on the page is better :) and I
agree. BUT, to tell you the truth, I find it easier to just make a
background square of the same color. That way it'll be absolute; no
question as to it matching-- and it only takes a few seconds.

Hopefully, someone will have a better answer. If it was in .gif format you
could make the image background transparent, but that is another day as
well :) (Check the HWG graphics archives for that-- it's been around a
million times).

I normally work in black, white or make backgrounds to cater to layout and
images. In most cases, a partially transparent .gif is the way to go--
especially when adding background effects etc. It is a good thing to know
how to do-- very valuable.

All in all, I would just make a background square of the same color as the
background in your image and get it over with quick and simple. Heck, it
wouldn't add much to the file size enough to make much of a difference.

thoughts, anyone?

b.j., while smoking too many cigarettes and drinking too much coffee.

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