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Color Frustrations - 4/13/2006 13:27:14
I have created a banner logo in Photoshop. It sits on the right side of a div that has a background color setting of #993300, the same background color as the image (.png format). In Dreamweaver the image and the background of the div match perfectly. However, in IE, the colors don't match. I believe the color is a "web-safe" color. I have included a screenshot of what I am seeing in IE. Any ideas on how I can resolve this?
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/13/2006 14:18:52
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I adjusted the background of the div
Are you using CSS? Is it inheriting that color? (Remember the operative word is 'Cascading'...
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/13/2006 16:48:19
The color of the div, according to the color checker, agreed with what I declared it in the stylesheet. The problem was my image. The background of my image when looked at in PS was #993300, which is what I wanted. However, when I viewed the image through IE, the color checker was showing the background of the image to be #902A00. In other words, IE and PS did not agree on what color the background of the image truly was.
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/14/2006 5:16:36
do you have colour management turned off in PS?
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/14/2006 9:37:18
that's the one.. wasn't sure whether it might be interfering. have you got the original psd we could have a look at or are you ok now anyway? ;)
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/14/2006 11:56:33
it's strange. gif from PS works fine but 8bit png shows the right colour #993300 in the preview window in image ready (i even took a screenshot and pasted it into fireworks and it reports #993300) but when i open the png in firefox it shows #983200... investigating further :)
edit: even locking the colour #993300 (which should prohibit it from being dropped from the export palette) still results in the colour shift.
ok in IR select the 993300 from the colour table (cclick once) and then just under the colour table in the row of small icons there is one that looks like a checker board (small white and gray grid) click that to set the transparency colour and in the preview window (in the 2-up mode for example) you'll see you now have a transparent background from everything that was 993300. now when you export it will match perfectly.
as to why you can't export WITH the background colour of 993300 and it not move to 983200 is a mystery (maybe a bug??)
when i make transparent gifs/pngs i always antialis against the target background colour and export with that colour as transparency in my gif/png
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/14/2006 12:29:46
OK, here is where I start to sound stupid.
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in IR select the 993300 from the colour table
What do you mean by "IR"?
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/14/2006 13:18:01
file > save for web
this takes you into the image ready dialogue (save for web - powered by image ready)
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/14/2006 13:41:03
Very helpful. That little process will come in handy for a lot of things. Thanks Dave.
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/29/2006 16:30:05
that's why i asked previously if they had colour management turned off. what i'm wondering is why it doesn't work when the colour management IS turned off (so no profile to save) in my tests... :( it only explains it if colour management is turned ON.
{edit} http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/platform3.html bit about colour profiles in pngs, but not really any help in explaining the colour shifts...
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RE: Color Frustrations - 4/30/2006 0:09:22
what? you mean it's IE's fault? surely not!
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RE: Color Frustrations - 5/6/2006 11:48:58
I don't know the cause for this, but I've seen this very same or similar problem mentioned in many places.
Like, if you have a background color of #003399 defined in CSS, and you put on it a PNG image with the same #003399 background, the colors are identical in other browsers than IE. In IE, the PNG might have a slightly different (erratic) color.
Use either image backgrounds only or CSS background colors only. Don't mix these two. Or, use an image with a transparent bg.
PS, offtopic: You don't have to use browser-safe colors anymore.
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