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Posted by Nik Coughlin on 09/26/91 11:45
Nik Coughlin wrote:
> Andy Dingley wrote:
>> On 19 Apr 2006 10:05:02 -0700, "cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap1@cwdjr.info>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thus for accurate colors for photographs, a gif
>>> should be avoided.
>>
>> GIF should be avoided for "overall accurate rendering". However if
>> you want to match a logo and a CSS colour so that one bleeds cleanly
>> into another, then use a pallette-based image format like GIF or PNG,
>> definitely not JPG. JPG offers lots of colours with good shading,
>> but it's lossy compression so they're all a little approximate. If
>> it's a question of matching solid colour blocks of one shade, then
>> JPG is a bad choice.
>
> In fact, if you need to colour match an image with a CSS colour, use
> GIF whenever possible over PNG, as the gamma correction in PNG will
> cause a mismatch in some browsers:
Whoops:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma/
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