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Originally Posted by ecntrc
Ok, well.. I usually just click web colors when choosing a color to use.. but i like using the whole pallette meaning, I uncheck the box and yeah.. you get more shades of each color.. well when I did that with a clients site I remember her telling me that the color looked off on her computer.. and she didnt like it.. said it was orangish when I made it goldish. Well my question is how can I choose colors and safely use them on the web, make them look like how I made them in PS instead of getting recolored and looking like ****.. did that make sense? |
This problem is really the result of some different factors maybe this information will help:
First different operating systems show colors differently If you use a Windows computer and the client uses a Mac they will see them differently (I do not use a Mac however from my understanding of what I have been told by classmates the displays are brighter).
Secondly DIfferent monitors are going to display differently if your client has an older monitor it may not be able to display all of the colors the same way a higher end flat screen will.
Third if we are talking about an image in a web page different browsers will show things differently.
Fourth user settings can have an effect on things in more ways than anyone could think...
That is just a partial list as I am sure there are other things...
The short answer really is there is no way to insure that anything will always appear the same on every computer...the web safe colors are the only real way to insure you get colors that won't be "interpreted" by the largest number of people...I know it is a very restrictive color selection unfortunately until everyone has true color monitors and somehow all of the OS's decide to use the same system color pallette (not likely to ever happen) this kind of issue will exist.