Re: "web-safe" #990000

Janet,

I don't know if this will be of any help but you might like to download
this little tool. It's free and it's very handy for color matching to the
exact pixel.

http://www.inetis.com/english/solutions_dotcolor.htm

Good luck.

Kym




At 01:02 PM 7/5/99 -0500, Epiphany Web Designs wrote:
>According to Dreamweaver 2.0 websafe palette, Lynda Weinman's websafe palette
>(www.lynda.com/hex.html) and other references, the color #990000 or (RGB
>153,00,00) is a web-safe color.
>
>Why then, if I use #990000 as a table background color and create a matching
>jpeg with only the color #990000, do I have color shift?  Take a look at
>www.hrsolutions-inc.com at the upper left, upper right and middle bar color at
>the very top of the table.  It's not really noticeable, but enough that
you eye
>can see the footerbar.jpg difference next to the rest of the table.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on here?  I've checked the
>graphics in Photopaint and in Paint Shop Pro 5 with the eyedropper and both 
>tell
>me that the color is indeed #990000.  I might expect the corner gifs to shade
>slightly as the number of colors is reduced to accomodate the gif format, but
>not a jpeg.
>
>Any answers or suggestions would be greatly appreciated and TIA.
>
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>Janet L. Cady
>Epiphany Web Designs
>www.epiphanywebdesigns.com
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