Monitor color, PS color, Web color

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johnboy
Jul 5, 2005
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I need a reality check.

If I have a web page and set the background to, say, #009933 (allegedly a web-safe color) and then specify in CS the same color, then is it true that they CS image exported as a GIF will not necessarily match?

What of colors that work better in the CMYK space, or does it matter?

Sorry, but I’ve a new monitor for web work and I am realizing that perhaps my success in this regard may have been dumb luck or delusion!

TIA
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Tacit
Jul 5, 2005
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"johnboy" wrote:

If I have a web page and set the background to, say, #009933 (allegedly a web-safe color) and then specify in CS the same color, then is it true that they CS image exported as a GIF will not necessarily match?

The images will not necessarily match on a computer whose video card is set to "thousands of colors" or "16-bit color" mode.

The so-called "Web-safe" color palette is becoming less and less significant; it is only relevant for computer monitors set to 8-bit color (256 colors). Any non-Web-safe color will dither on a computer whose video card is set to 256 colors. A few years back, most video cards either only supported 256 colors, or defaulted to 256 colors–but that has no longer been true for years now.

However, it is still true that a video card set to 16-bit color may not display a Web background and an image the same way even if they have the same colors.

With a monitor set to 24-bit color or 32-bit color, it is a non-issue.

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Hecate
Jul 6, 2005
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:26:59 -0500, "johnboy"
wrote:

I need a reality check.

If I have a web page and set the background to, say, #009933 (allegedly a web-safe color) and then specify in CS the same color, then is it true that they CS image exported as a GIF will not necessarily match?
What of colors that work better in the CMYK space, or does it matter?
The CMYK web space has nothing to do with web work. Web images should be in the RGB space. CMYK is a print space.

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