[NTLUG:Discuss] different colors in different netscapes

[Steve Baker]

lee at brave.com wrote:
> 
> i created an image with the gimp and added that image to a web page.
> the background color image matches the background page color great with
> linux netscape, but when i switch to view the page in netscape in
> windows (either vmware or native windows), the colors don't match.  you
> can see what i mean at http://researchtexas.com and
> http://researchtexas.com/index1.html .
> 
> 1.  why does it do this?
> 
> 2.  how do i get the gimp to make exact color match with both platforms
> of netscape?

When you make pages for the web in GIMP, be sure to save them with the
palette selection set to 'Custom' and 'Web'.

However, I don't think you can ever really rely on getting exactly
the colours you want.  Different OS's uses different gamma correction
settings, different numbers of bits per pixel, different palette settings,
etc.

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