Odd colour discrepancy between PS and DW in CS5

Dara Robinson · 30-01-2011 12:03AM #1

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?

Dale Parish · 30-01-2011 10:58AM

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.

Dara Robinson · 31-01-2011 03:15PM

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:

Liam Byrne · 31-01-2011 04:23PM

What format are you saving to ?

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

Dara Robinson · 31-01-2011 06:13PM

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

strandroad · 31-01-2011 06:30PM

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

Dara Robinson · 31-01-2011 06:33PM

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

Odd colour discrepancy between PS and DW in CS5

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