[thelist] Compression color changes in JPG with Adobe PS

[John Handelaar]

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:38, Tony Crockford wrote:
> Hi
>
> can anyone shed an light on why a .tif image with a white background
> gets a pinkish background when saved for web in Adobe PS?
>
> I'm sure it's compression related,

Bingo.

As a rule, if you're looking to use something with a
white background (ie: block of solid colour), you should
be using GIF or PNG, which are optimised for that.

It's not just Photoshop, by the way - I recall getting
stumped briefly about 5 years ago with Paint Shop Pro
version 3 :-)

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