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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.
Concept Writing & Design

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