inaccuracy of eye droppers

[gwlubin]

supposing i am building a web page and i want the background of a graphic to be the same colour as the bg of the page. yes?

i simply take the hex number of the page bg and put it into Paint Shop 5. OK?

but it is rarely accurate. and very often i notice a slight difference between the two colours on the finished page.

what can i do about this?

g/

[Justin]

Paint shop will match the color exactly, but when it converts it to a palette (reducing the colors for a gif image) it doesn't do that very accurately. It kinda stinks that it does that, but you can do this:

Convert it to x colors before saving it, and click Colors --> Edit Palette. Select the color that you want to edit (you can use the eye dropper for that) and edit it, changing the value to what you need it. This saves the color in the palette exactly.

I would suggest using a transparent background color anyway - assuming GIF format here though. A JPEG doesn't do transparent colors (I think) and doesn't save a palette, so it's harder to make them look right.

As long as we're talking GIF here, though, one or both of the above should work http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

[gwlubin]

Justin. What can I say?

Thank you.

/g

[Justin]

No problem http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif I can't afford PhotoShop and I've been using PSP for years - since early Windows 3.1 days. It crashes a lot, it has many faults, but darnit, it's a great program once you get used to it (and you learn to save very often http://www.aota.net/ubb/biggrin.gif)

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Justin Nelson
FutureQuest Support

[gwlubin]

i have tried an evaluation copy of Photoshop and yes it is expensive, here in the uk you would pay about $500. i paid $99 for Paint Shop and i believe that you can do even better than that if you hunt around.

have you discovered blade pro, a great little plug - in?

the adobe product seems over-complex to my simple mind.

/g