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- From: prink@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Philip Rink Jr)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,alt.design.graphics,comp.graphics.apps.alias
- Subject: Re: Web Design & Pantone to RGB
- Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 23:28:17 -0500
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- In article <4jsbc9$r79@news1.io.org>, gmead@io.org (Glen Mead) wrote:
-
- >> Hi All,
- >>
- >> First of all, with respect to WWW page design, what limitations should I
- >> keep in mind (IE. file formats, colours etc) when creating graphics and
- >> textures for the web? Also, how does Netscape (and others) handle a
- web page
- >> with 2 16.7 million colour palette JPEG's and a series of 256 colour gif
- >> buttons? Does it remap all of them to match a single colour palette of the
- >> same depth as the system it's being accesed with? If that is the case,
- is it
- >> best to stick with 256 colour (or less) gifs all with the same palette
- to make
- >> graphics more efficient? I've seen a web page (designed by a friend)
- in which
- >> the individual images look spectacular but once on the page together, they
- >> look grainy.
- >>
- >> Second, are there any programs (either stand alone or as features within
- >> another program)or tables to convert Pantone colours to RGB? At work I
- tried
- >> selecting a Pantone colour in CorelDraw 4.0 as a fill colour, then I changed
- >> from the Pantone palette to an RGB palette and recorded the RGB
- values. Then,
- >> I took the colour values over to our SGI and the resulting colour was
- nothing
- >> like the colour I was looking for.
- >>
- >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
- >>
- >> Glen Mead - gmead@io.org
-
- First, many people are using 256 color monitors, so it is a needless
- increase in the size of your graphics to use 24-bit color. JPEG's are
- good, though, since they make the most compact files if the original was a
- photograph. GIF's work best if the graphic is simple, with just a few
- colors.
-
- The problem with Pantone colors, as you noticed, is that they do not
- always translate perfectly to screen colors, and then different programs
- will render them differently anyway, and then different monitors show them
- differently, etc. If you are trying to match a logo or something printed
- in Pantone, it is hit-or-miss. Some colors will work better than others.
-
- When doing Web graphics, I always kick my monitor down to 256 colors as a
- "least common denominator", and then use an RGB color picker. This gives
- the most predictable results.
-
- Philip Rink Jr.
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