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Odd colour discrepancy between PS and DW in CS5

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  • 30-01-2011 12:03am
    #1
    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭


    so having this odd error and hoping someone can give me some insight.

    I am updating a webpage with a new logo and a few other things and I am trying to match the background of a logo from another associated website to the one I want to display it in. So I sample the colour in DW and get the web code for it, I go into PS and use the web code to select the colour. So now the colours are the same I save, insert image into updated page, save and go to preview and the colours are off. Even when I sample the 2 colours now in DW they are different

    Any ideas?


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    #2
    Dale Parish
    Registered Users Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Dale Parish


    I got this issue when I used a hexadecimal colour with 3 digits/numbers; Try expanding it to 6 by doubling each number or making the background of the image transparent.


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    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    This is the colour I am telling PS to use #5A5644
    And while in PS its all good but when I bring the image back to DW I get this #474E2D

    I think its happening when I bring it into DW cause when I look at that image now in PS its changed. But the original PSD is still as I left it... :mad:


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    What format are you saving to ?

    JPEG compression or GIF colour depth/settings might be causing a minor shift.


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    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    JPEG but its not a minor shift, its a huge one. Its not my first web page, I have been using PS for over 10 years and DW for almost the same and this has never happened


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    strandroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭strandroad


    Might be worth double checking if your image mode in PS is set to RGB colour.


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    Dara Robinson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭Dara Robinson


    It was not, as it turns out it was set to CYMK. I forgot I had been doing stuff in college. worst thing is that it did not fix it. So I changed it to transparent and foreground colour and its working good now. But I would still like to know what the hell happened


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