I hate colour profiles
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- fifty50
WTF
Ok so it's kind of a newb question but say I've created an image in photoshop that I want to put on a site. The background colour of the image is set to the hex code that the website is in but when i save for web, the colour looks completely different.
First I tried with color management turned off, then I tried like 30 different color profile settings but the only things that matched turned my 3kb image into 95kb.
GGRRRRRRRRR
- Timson0
Are you sure you're not using 'web safe colors' when saving for web.
- fifty500
No i've tried, Perceptual, Adaptive, and Selective in the save for web window, NEVER restrictive. nothing's working
- forcetwelve0
yeah i had that once. i think i fixed it by turning colour management off.
anyone?
- Crouwel0
yeah check that.
in what format are you saving?
if it's gif you can manually replace colors in the palette in the save for web dialogue..
- fifty500
tried turning off colour management. my image always looks a copule of shades lighter than my background.
hold on i'll post an example:
http://curtis.nexteradesign.com/…The square PNG image was filled with the same hex value as the background colour, but obviously they're not the same.
- fifty500
FUUHHHH???
Okay i didn't change anything with the photoshop file, just instead of saving it as a PNG, i saved it as a GIF and now all the colours match...
Would someone care to explain to me why PNG shifts colours?
- octopus0
Okay so we all know color profiles are a pain in the ass. One that that everyone seems to forget is that ImageReady still has a nasty quirk. The problem is that when you are doing a "save for web" the preview will always looks lighter.
- fifty500
but why do PNGs save lighter than GIFs?