Why does #CCCCCC appear as a different color in FF and IE?
In photoshop, #CCCCCC, (a gray) is a web safe color. I make an image with that background color, then, make the background color the same and its fine in FF. in IE, it shows up lighter.
Whats the deal?
Edit - I'm saving the files in PNG. Maybe its a different scale somehow?
Edit again - I found a fix, I just made the .png backgrounds transparent. I would still like to know why colors are different in IE though.
But if you are saving your PNGs with indexed color, there is a possibility you have so many colors in the graphic that the exact value for #cccccc didn't "make the cut". Try bumping up the maximum colors in the PNG or saving it as a 32-bit PNG ("PNG-24") in Photoshop which won't have a problem. If you are using JPG, make sure you using sRGB as the color profile when it's saving out (automatic if you "Save for Web & Devices"). Any other color profiles are problematic as some browsers will use them (Safari) and others wont, which can cause issues...
Well, I for my web images I always use "Save for Web" And I was using PNG-24 save method. Maybe something is set wrong those settings? Also, I'm using Photoshop 7.0. Maybe thats the real reason! Thanks for the link though, very informative.
The problem has to deal with "Gamma correction," and the fact that IE doesn't have a proper gamut setting (not sure about IE 8). I don't really understand it that well, so as opposed to blabbing incoherently, here are two pages I found on it:
In photoshop, #CCCCCC, (a gray) is a web safe color. I make an image with that background color, then, make the background color the same and its fine in FF. in IE, it shows up lighter.
Whats the deal?
Edit - I'm saving the files in PNG. Maybe its a different scale somehow?
Edit again - I found a fix, I just made the .png backgrounds transparent. I would still like to know why colors are different in IE though.
But if you are saving your PNGs with indexed color, there is a possibility you have so many colors in the graphic that the exact value for #cccccc didn't "make the cut". Try bumping up the maximum colors in the PNG or saving it as a 32-bit PNG ("PNG-24") in Photoshop which won't have a problem. If you are using JPG, make sure you using sRGB as the color profile when it's saving out (automatic if you "Save for Web & Devices"). Any other color profiles are problematic as some browsers will use them (Safari) and others wont, which can cause issues...
http://css-tricks.com/color-rendering-d ... vs-safari/
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/
http://forums.biorust.com/tutorial-subm ... em-ie.html
-Joe