Saving (part of) the color table

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Arcfus
May 18, 2004
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Here’s a scenario that I find myself in occasionally.

Today I created a simple graphic logo for a company’s website. If I save it as a GIF with a color table of 16 colors, it looks perfect. But now I’ve got to incorporate a small photograph with it. Saving it as a JPEG will make the logo part look fuzzy. So I increase the size of the color table to include (at least some of) the colors in the photo.

But the new larger color table has NOT included all of the colors necessary to give me my good-looking logo. It has included a few, but most of the colors have been re-assigned to colors within the photo.

I’d like to somehow save the color table that is created without the photo, then save the result as a GIF using a much larger color table, but keeping the colors that were in the original.

I’ve probably done an abysmal job explaining this, but if anyone can help.

BTW – I’m using 5.5 on MS Windows.
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Don
May 18, 2004
Short of saving them in a more suitable format such as TIFF, you may need to save them separately and then superimpose them on the web page with HTML. Save the logo as a 16 color GIF and the photo as a JPEG.

Don

"Arcfus" wrote in message
Here’s a scenario that I find myself in occasionally.

Today I created a simple graphic logo for a company’s website. If I save it as a GIF with a color table of 16 colors, it looks perfect. But now I’ve got to incorporate a small photograph with it. Saving it as a JPEG will make the logo part look fuzzy. So I increase the size of the color table to include (at least some of) the colors in the photo.

But the new larger color table has NOT included all of the colors necessary to give me my good-looking logo. It has included a few, but most of the colors have been re-assigned to colors within the photo.
I’d like to somehow save the color table that is created without the photo, then save the result as a GIF using a much larger color table, but keeping the colors that were in the original.

I’ve probably done an abysmal job explaining this, but if anyone can help.

BTW – I’m using 5.5 on MS Windows.
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Madsen
May 19, 2004
Arcfus wrote:

I’d like to somehow save the color table that is created without the photo, then save the result as a GIF using a much larger color table, but keeping the colors that were in the original.

Maybe a master palette can do what you want (not sure though). Master palettes can contain colors from different images and can also be saved as optimization options to be used in ImageReady’s Optimize palette (or from Save for web inside Photoshop).

Try F1 in ImageReady and search for the word Master Palettes.

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Madsen
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Arcfus
May 19, 2004
On Tue, 18 May 2004 15:13:20 -0700, "Don" wrote:

Short of saving them in a more suitable format such as TIFF, you may need to save them separately and then superimpose them on the web page with HTML. Save the logo as a 16 color GIF and the photo as a JPEG.

I would have done something like that, but the logo has a drop shadow that fades into the photo. I think I’ll just save it as a 256-color gif. It’ll have to be good enough.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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