Re: "web-safe" #990000

At 11:02 AM 7/5/99, Epiphany Web Designs wrote:
> 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?

It's a surprising issue, yet still a FAQ. Full info:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/html_color_shift.html

(Sidenote: I'd recommend that *all* list members check out this document...
if you haven't gotten caught by this yet, then one day you will!)

Summary: Websafe colors *must* shift on 16-bit displays, and different
renderers can shift these colors in different ways. To appear to have a GIF
match the HTML background, either:
a)  Matte the graphic to the general background color and then eyedropper
it out (so you have a non-rectangular image which antialiases to the HTML);
or
b)  Use a tiling GIF background of the desired color too (so you're not
invoking two different renderers for HTML and GIF color shifting).


jd





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