Innaccurate Colours
Why is it that whenever I export a JPEG with a white background, the white comes out kinda rosy tinted? It's very subtle, but noticeable. I think it does this for both Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photopaint. Some help with this would be appreciated.
Mike Fisher posted this at 19:10 — 15th August 2000.
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You might be using a low compression rate. Low enough that the colors smudge.
Try saving as a GIF.
Justin S posted this at 03:35 — 16th August 2000.
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Yeah, save as maximium quality JPG (100%). That should fix it...
Suzanne posted this at 02:39 — 22nd August 2000.
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Basically the compression system involved in making a JPEG slightly changes ALL the colours to reduce the amount of colours in the image, and therefore the file size.
Ulead's SmartSaver Pro has an option to set the background colour of a JPEG to an image, or a colour (making it a pretend transparent image) -- http://www.ulead.com.
If you have a lot of background, you may want to consider making it a GIF instead of a JPEG, or choosing some alternate methods of image compression (desaturate, apply a light texture to the background, et cetera) and resave it. Saving it WITHOUT compression is NOT recommended unless you are not putting it on the web. As I am sure you know, less compression equals higher file size, and slower download time.
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