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Aack-- colour frustrations
I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour, RGB
255 255 204.
Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so slightly
darker than the corner of the banner.
Any ideas?
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Waterspider
Visit www.penderharbour.org
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
Are the banner and background images both GIF's... or is one a JPG? A
JPG might give you a slightly different color once compressed. But
assuming they are both GIF's.... how complex are the colors in the 2
graphics? If the banner has more than 256 colors in it, that image
would not be capable of displaying all of the required colors and a
mismatch is likely. If that's the case, slice the banner into a few
pieces so that each piece is less likely to exceed 256 colors.
Intelligent slicing can give you better results. Show us a sample of
the page.
Laurence
Waterspider wrote:
> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
>
> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour, RGB
> 255 255 204.
> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so slightly
> darker than the corner of the banner.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
"LBA" <webdesigns@no2spamabramsnet.com> wrote in message
news:f6u4lr$gkb1@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> Are the banner and background images both GIF's... or is one a JPG? A JPG
> might give you a slightly different color once compressed. But assuming
> they are both GIF's.... how complex are the colors in the 2 graphics? If
> the banner has more than 256 colors in it, that image would not be capable
> of displaying all of the required colors and a mismatch is likely. If
> that's the case, slice the banner into a few pieces so that each piece is
> less likely to exceed 256 colors. Intelligent slicing can give you better
> results. Show us a sample of the page.
> Laurence
>
Thanks for the quick reply, Laurence. You might have something with the
..gif-.jpg stuff. Do you know how NOF provides the colour for the background?
If it's a .jpg, that might explain the problem.
Sorry, but I don't dare publish this without wrecking the old version of the
site, and I don't want to stick a page on www.penderharbour.org; worried
about overwriting elements with the same name. Maybe in a bit, when the site
is closer to done, I'll put it where it belongs on www.penderharbour.com.
Note that the existing disaster was the work of someone I hired to do the
work.
Note to self: if you want something done right, do it yourself.
Another note to self: finish reading that book on PHP.
>
>
> Waterspider wrote:
>> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
>>
>> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
>> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour,
>> RGB 255 255 204.
>> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so slightly
>> darker than the corner of the banner.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
You might have better luck if you go for the nearest 'web-safe' equivalent.
LBA wrote:
> Are the banner and background images both GIF's... or is one a JPG? A
> JPG might give you a slightly different color once compressed. But
> assuming they are both GIF's.... how complex are the colors in the 2
> graphics? If the banner has more than 256 colors in it, that image
> would not be capable of displaying all of the required colors and a
> mismatch is likely. If that's the case, slice the banner into a few
> pieces so that each piece is less likely to exceed 256 colors.
> Intelligent slicing can give you better results. Show us a sample of
> the page.
>
> Laurence
>
>
>
> Waterspider wrote:
>> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
>>
>> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
>> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same
>> colour, RGB 255 255 204.
>> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so
>> slightly darker than the corner of the banner.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
"Mike Coombes" <mike@ktf-design.com> wrote in message
news:f6u5gc$fvi11@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com. ..
> You might have better luck if you go for the nearest 'web-safe'
> equivalent.
255 255 204 is one of the "web-safe" colours; that's why I chose it to use
in the banner image.
>
> LBA wrote:
>> Are the banner and background images both GIF's... or is one a JPG? A
>> JPG might give you a slightly different color once compressed. But
>> assuming they are both GIF's.... how complex are the colors in the 2
>> graphics? If the banner has more than 256 colors in it, that image would
>> not be capable of displaying all of the required colors and a mismatch is
>> likely. If that's the case, slice the banner into a few pieces so that
>> each piece is less likely to exceed 256 colors. Intelligent slicing can
>> give you better results. Show us a sample of the page.
>>
>> Laurence
>>
>>
>>
>> Waterspider wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
>>>
>>> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
>>> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour,
>>> RGB 255 255 204.
>>> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so slightly
>>> darker than the corner of the banner.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
If you are talking about a background set by NOF, it's just a color
setting setting... it's neither GIF nor JPEG. So perhaps it's the
banner image that isn't producing the necessary color. If you want, you
can make a test page with a test masterborder... set the background
color and drop the image on the page... then provide the URL.
Laurence
Waterspider wrote:
> "LBA" <webdesigns@no2spamabramsnet.com> wrote in message
> news:f6u4lr$gkb1@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>> Are the banner and background images both GIF's... or is one a JPG? A JPG
>> might give you a slightly different color once compressed. But assuming
>> they are both GIF's.... how complex are the colors in the 2 graphics? If
>> the banner has more than 256 colors in it, that image would not be capable
>> of displaying all of the required colors and a mismatch is likely. If
>> that's the case, slice the banner into a few pieces so that each piece is
>> less likely to exceed 256 colors. Intelligent slicing can give you better
>> results. Show us a sample of the page.
>> Laurence
>>
> Thanks for the quick reply, Laurence. You might have something with the
> .gif-.jpg stuff. Do you know how NOF provides the colour for the background?
> If it's a .jpg, that might explain the problem.
>
> Sorry, but I don't dare publish this without wrecking the old version of the
> site, and I don't want to stick a page on www.penderharbour.org; worried
> about overwriting elements with the same name. Maybe in a bit, when the site
> is closer to done, I'll put it where it belongs on www.penderharbour.com.
> Note that the existing disaster was the work of someone I hired to do the
> work.
> Note to self: if you want something done right, do it yourself.
> Another note to self: finish reading that book on PHP.
>>
>>
>> Waterspider wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
>>>
>>> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
>>> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour,
>>> RGB 255 255 204.
>>> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so slightly
>>> darker than the corner of the banner.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>
>
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
Hi -
> Sorry, but I don't dare publish this without wrecking the old version of
> the site, and I don't want to stick a page on www.penderharbour.org;
> worried about overwriting elements with the same name. Maybe in a bit,
> when the site is closer to done, I'll put it where it belongs on
> www.penderharbour.com.
What I do (because I'm a trial & error kinda guy - emphasis on error) is to
set up a test folder: www.pendourharbour.org/test for example & publish to
there.
Lord knows what you might find @ automatesoftware.com/test..... Oh - an
older version of a real estate site.
About the images: maybe the colours have an extra "u" in 'em? <vbg> Like
England, Canada & the US are 2 countries separated by a common language!
Garret Mott
Auto-Mate Software www.automatesoftware.com
Northeast DataFlex Consortium www.nedataflex.com
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
I don't have an immediate solution, but I have had the same problem:
Using NOF 9/10 background colour set to HTML XXX
Images produced in Paintshop Pro 9 with images set to same HTML XXX
background -
Results sometimes mis-match, meaning I've got to play about with html colour
codes to produce a seamless join.
I'd have to jump back in time a month or two for the exact situation, but it
baffled me at the time....
Ken
"Waterspider" <nospam@all.com> wrote in message
news:f6u77r$gkb2@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>
> "Mike Coombes" <mike@ktf-design.com> wrote in message
> news:f6u5gc$fvi11@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com. ..
> > You might have better luck if you go for the nearest 'web-safe'
> > equivalent.
>
> 255 255 204 is one of the "web-safe" colours; that's why I chose it to use
> in the banner image.
> >
> > LBA wrote:
> >> Are the banner and background images both GIF's... or is one a JPG? A
> >> JPG might give you a slightly different color once compressed. But
> >> assuming they are both GIF's.... how complex are the colors in the 2
> >> graphics? If the banner has more than 256 colors in it, that image
would
> >> not be capable of displaying all of the required colors and a mismatch
is
> >> likely. If that's the case, slice the banner into a few pieces so that
> >> each piece is less likely to exceed 256 colors. Intelligent slicing can
> >> give you better results. Show us a sample of the page.
> >>
> >> Laurence
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Waterspider wrote:
> >>> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
> >>>
> >>> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
> >>> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour,
> >>> RGB 255 255 204.
> >>> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so
slightly
> >>> darker than the corner of the banner.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas?
> >>>
>
>
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour, RGB
> 255 255 204.
The palette used by the gif file may shift the color off slightly - to avoid
this set the corner colour to transparent.
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Re: Aack-- colour frustrations
H20 Spider,
Get this free color pick tool from Iconico. There's nothing better for
zooming in close and grabbing swatches from the web browser to compare
and/or save color schemes for your web sites.
www.iconico.com/colorpic
Gifs, jpgs and pngs all render colors a bit differently. Even within the Gif
family, you'll find colors vary depending on whether they are saved as Gif
32, 64 or 128.
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
"Waterspider" <nospam@all.com> wrote in message
news:f6u3o6$f1t9@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with this, but...
>
> I have a coloured background, RGB 255 255 204.
> Fine. And I have a .gif banner with a corner of that very same colour, RGB
> 255 255 204.
> Now the Aack. In Display and Publish, the background is ever so slightly
> darker than the corner of the banner.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Waterspider
> Visit www.penderharbour.org
>
>
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