Question

I've got an image to display as backgroundimage on my website. For this I've
got a psd with 2 layers. (500x500px)
- Layer 1: just filled with the background color which is on my website
- Layer 2: an image from which I set the opacity to 10%

In Photoshop this all look great, but when I save it as a GIF, PNG or JPG
image (using all colors I can use) it looks like the image is saved with
just up to 10 colors so the image does not look very nice.

To figur out wht the problem was I created a screenshot from the image
opened in photoshop (the way it look good) and pasted the screenshot in a
new image in photoshop. I cut out the exact image and save it to a gif-file.
Now the image looks great, tough the background-color is not exact the same
anymore.

Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem?

> Are you using a web palette to select your colours?
>
> 10% opacity is very low although it should look ok in jpg format, try
> uping the opacicy.
>
> Gif should only be used for vector images or images that require
> transparancy.
>
> PNG suffers from large file sizes and badly supported in IE
>

How do I figure out if I'm using a webpalate? The image is cut out of an
image which is using about 15 colors.

I tried saving the image as JPG, but this the image does not look ok.

Any more suggestions?

"Ronald" <Ronald@nospam.nl> wrote in news:BaxOa.176493$V9.16308492
@amsnews02.chello.com:

>> Are you using a web palette to select your colours?
>>
>> 10% opacity is very low although it should look ok in jpg format, try
>> uping the opacicy.
>>
>> Gif should only be used for vector images or images that require
>> transparancy.
>>
>> PNG suffers from large file sizes and badly supported in IE
>>
>
> How do I figure out if I'm using a webpalate? The image is cut out of
an
> image which is using about 15 colors.
>
> I tried saving the image as JPG, but this the image does not look ok.
>
> Any more suggestions?
>
>

Go to the colour palette click the small black arrow on the top right of
the palette and select 'web colour sliders'

Although this should'nt make a lot of difference to a jpg.

Can you post the image up to alt.binaries.pictures.utilities, I get a
look at it there and see iF I can find your problem. Put Rolands picture
in the subject line.

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