Re: Image coloring problem

Jami,

PROBLEM: The images are GIFs, and the palettes don't match.

FIX: Easiest method would be to make the background color transparent, then
resave. Alternately, for a more specific fix, you could promote both images
to 24-bit color, place them both on the same "page", but with plenty of
space to cut them out later, get all the colors just as you want, reduce to
256 or 16 colors (whichever is more appropriate), use Optimized Octree with
Error Diffusion and Reduced Color Bleeding selection (optional on whether to
include Windows Colors or not), then cut the images out and save.

There are likely other options available.

Hope this helps!
Kehvan

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jami" <designsbydusty(at)tiadon.com>
To: <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 07:01
Subject: Image coloring problem


> Hello.......
>
> I am in the process of building a website for a friend, who wants to use
> exclusively black-line images on a lavender background. I have found some
> excellent black-and-white graphics, and have been trying to convert them
for
> the pale lavender background that my friend wants for her site. I've done
> two images so far. One of them came out beautifully, the other one shows
up
> as having a much lighter background than that used for the page. (Not
white,
> not the pale lavender, but an even paler lavender.)
>
> The page I'm working on can be seen at
> http://www.geocities.com/mothers_wisdom/frameset.html.
> As you can see, the little bouquet of flowers over the navigation bar
looks
> fine. What I did was this....in PSP, I copied the image of the flowers and
> then pasted it on a blank image that had the desired background color. I
did
> have to use the Delete key to erase a couple of lingering white areas, but
> it worked beautifully.
>
> However, when I tried to do the same thing with the larger image (the farm
> scene), the image that was pasted was not black-line, but instead a darker
> shade of lavender, and rather muddy. So, I tried using the flood fill tool
> to replace the white background with the lavender color. I know that the
> color I was using in my flood fill tool was the same as the page
background,
> and yet twice the end result had the even paler shade of lavender.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I'm sure there's a very simple solution to this,
I'm
> just not seeing it at the moment.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jami
>
>
>

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