Re: Color Problems with IE4

JPEG's just tend to be a little "funny" about colors.  It's the way they
compress (so I've been told).  Rather than indexing and using exact colors,
like GIF's, they use the way we see colors to "secretly" drop information
out of the graphic.  This can lead to some perceptible color distortion in
simple.  They historically have a bad time with simple, non photographic
(remember, the P in JPEG is for photographic) images, because they will seek
to distort something that really shouldn't be distorted.  Your graphics are
all pretty simple (and really nice, as well), and I'd try them as GIF's (and
make the white space transparent).  That may not solve your line problem
(although I think it works ok as is), but it should at least solve your
white space problem.

HTH -
Mike E.




-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Markham <bmarkham(at)home.com>
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 4:07 AM
Subject: Color Problems with IE4


>I am having some difficulties with the coloring on my site. Currently there
>are two problems to which i haven't been able to find a solution, so i
>figured I'd turn to you guys for the answer. The page in question can be
>found at http://members.home.com/bmarkham/elysian/test.html .
>
>Problem #1)
>The beige block at the left is split at each of the 6 nav buttons. The only
>problem is, no matter what i do, there are fine little divisions noticeable
>when the page is viewed. I was wondering if there is anything that can be
>done about them.
>
>Problem #2)
>This problem has to do with the white background and the white background
>of my images. The white background of the images seems to come with a pink
>tint when viewed against the white background of the browser.
>
>Both problems were noticeable in both IE4 and NN4.6, but were much more
>noticeable in IE4. The images were created with PS5 and compressed as
JPEGs.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Brian
>

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