Re: Colour problem on G3

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From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:00

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CJ <cjd_99@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> My G3 seems to be displaying thousands of colours instead of millions,
> although the setting is on millions of colours in the control strip. The
> monitor is now set at 832x624 and was displaying millions of colours fine
> until recently. The main symptom is that some GIFs which were previously
> displaying well are now badly dithered, both in Netscape 4 and also in
> Photoshop.

Have a look in the Monitors control panel and check the setting there.
btw, if your monitor is set to thousands of colours, the average GIF
(256 colours) should be displayed perfectly well.

> I have changed the gamma settings recently while working on some Web graphics.
> Is that a possible cause?
> 
> One other suggestion is that there has been a VRAM failure......

[snip]

Very unlikely.

Rowland.

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