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I am editing some images my boss wants to put into a website. The images are from an application and not from the web. He did the originals by doing screen captures, highlighting the areas he wanted to accent in MS Paint, then he reduced the size of the images from 800 x 600 pixels to 640 x 480 pixels.
Most of the images came out ok, but some of the images that had gray in them went from a gray (hex CCCCCC) to a kind of sickly green (hex C0DCC0). When I take the greenish version into PhotoShop and check the color in ‘web safe’ colors, it comes up as gray (hex CCCCCC0): but under ‘all colors’ in the color picker, it comes up the sickly green (hex C0DCC0).
Now to some of you that have taken classes in, and studied, PhotoShop this is probably a simple problem with a simple solution. I, on the other hand, have taught myself how to use the application by trial and error. I am proud of the stuff I have learned to do in the program, however, I have never run into this situation before.
So, what I am asking you, the experts, is why is this happening? Is it because he’s saving the screen capture in the wrong color settings (all colors) or is it a result of the size reduction – or is it a combination of the two? He asked me and I couldn’t give him an answer, though I am inclined to think it is because he didn’t save it in web safe colors to start with.
I would appreciate if one of you could enlighten me as to why this problem occurred.
Thanks in advance if you can help me out!
Most of the images came out ok, but some of the images that had gray in them went from a gray (hex CCCCCC) to a kind of sickly green (hex C0DCC0). When I take the greenish version into PhotoShop and check the color in ‘web safe’ colors, it comes up as gray (hex CCCCCC0): but under ‘all colors’ in the color picker, it comes up the sickly green (hex C0DCC0).
Now to some of you that have taken classes in, and studied, PhotoShop this is probably a simple problem with a simple solution. I, on the other hand, have taught myself how to use the application by trial and error. I am proud of the stuff I have learned to do in the program, however, I have never run into this situation before.
So, what I am asking you, the experts, is why is this happening? Is it because he’s saving the screen capture in the wrong color settings (all colors) or is it a result of the size reduction – or is it a combination of the two? He asked me and I couldn’t give him an answer, though I am inclined to think it is because he didn’t save it in web safe colors to start with.
I would appreciate if one of you could enlighten me as to why this problem occurred.
Thanks in advance if you can help me out!
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