[Pro] Colour Matching

Hi there,

I hope someone can help me.

I have taken a vertical strip from an RGB image, made it 1px width and imported it into the background to form the overall background image. The actual image it is taken from appears as the main page image in the centre of the screen.

But the actual main image looks paler than that of the imported background image, almost like a 5% white layer over the top. Therefore it doesn’t match the tiled background colours.

In Safari the background matches the Photoshop image exactly. Same image so what could be the problem?

Anyone had the same?

K


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First, I wouldn’t make your tiling element any smaller than 25px in the short (repeating) dimension, because the repetition math is fairly expensive, even on a modern browser and GPU. Your page will be slower.

Second, if you’re comparing an image you placed over the top of your repeating background in Freeway, not pass-through with an image you compressed in Photoshop, there’s a great possibility that it’s going to be color-corrected twice. Try creating both “slices” in Photoshop and export them both at the same time with the same compression settings. Then import the background image as usual, and place the foreground image as a pass-through. That way no further color correction will be performed.

Walter

On Feb 24, 2012, at 4:59 AM, kasbah wrote:

Hi there,

I hope someone can help me.

I have taken a vertical strip from an RGB image, made it 1px width and imported it into the background to form the overall background image. The actual image it is taken from appears as the main page image in the centre of the screen.

But the actual main image looks paler than that of the imported background image, almost like a 5% white layer over the top. Therefore it doesn’t match the tiled background colours.

In Safari the background matches the Photoshop image exactly. Same image so what could be the problem?

Anyone had the same?

K


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Hi Walter,

Your response was much appreciated.

Background strip - imported no pass through, foreground image - imported as pass through image. Worked a treat.

I had forgotten though, that if the graphic box is smaller than the image to import, it does not display the image until you click ‘fit box to content’

Thanks again.

Keith


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