photoshop/dreamweaver prob and font-questions

photoshop and fonts

[vampke]

Hi guys!

Please be patient with me, I'm still a newbee.
Here it goes: I have 2 questions:
1. I'm developping my site using photoshop and dreamweaver. However I have a problem with the colours: they don't seem to match. If I use colour code B3C8E3 in dreamweaver and I use the eyedropper tool in photoshop I get colour code B2C7E2. Any ideas why this difference?

2. what font(s) would you experts recommand to use in a professionnal website. I tried verdana, but got the comment that it looks 'boring'.

Any thoughts are appreciated,

kind regards,

[Leosghost]

Which version of DW do you have ...
I know that in MX my DW allows me to choose colors for fonts and then when I run it's own auto validator it says sometimes says these are not valid color codes ....
I suspect I have a buggier than usual version.. but hey what the hell ...the pages display ; )

[edited by: Leosghost at 2:19 pm (utc) on June 21, 2004]

[vampke]

hi, it is DW MX and photoshop 7.0

[Leosghost]

I have the same combo of these 2 softs and have the same thing happens......don't worry be happy ; )

The one you will get in IE will be the colour which is shown in DW ..and anyway none of us ever has any control over what is actually seen on anyones monitor..
And some people aren't as "straight" as others when they surf etc....

Plus as one old copywriter said ..
"There are more monitor variables in heaven and earth
Horatio ....."
Apparently people like his style
Will his success last?

Might be something to do with Adobe and macromedia fighting for the same hundreds or thousands of dollars per soft in a box...

[vampke]

okay thanks for the reply, I'm glas it's not just me :-)
it's weird though! I thought these codes where standardised?
what do you do then to handle this?

[Leosghost]

I just dont let it worry me ....not a "rodents rear"

[limbo]

In answer to your second Questions on font usage, these two threads will give you something to think about:

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

<added>Bear in mind these threads are two years old (so swap 10px for 0.8 em ;) )
</added>

Ta

Limbo

[Jon_King]

Same programs and I don't have the problem. vampke, explain a bit further.. what are you actually clicking on with the eyedropper, maybe a file you open from your website?

[vampke]

to limbo: cheers for links: good stuff, I'll stick with verdana then :-)

to jon-king: i have a site that i did not create but that i maintain; it was with this site that the difference came to my attention: the site uses a blue background.
if i open a graphic in photoshop with the same kind of blue on the background and i use the eyedropper in photoshop i actually get a different colour code than the colour code used for the background in dreamweaver (as explained before)
it doesn't seem to be doing it with all colours though, ie 99cccc looks the same in both programs

[smokeyb]

Have you got the "only web colours" box checked in photoshop? If you have, it will snap to the nearest match to the inputted colour.

[vampke]

hi smokeyb,

i don't think so, how can i be sure? i didn't know this option
anyways, if i select a colour (or colour code) i GET this colour, the program doesn't snap to anything (except if i click on the 'snap to websafe colour' in the colour picker of course)

[smokeyb]

I use PS7 and in the colour selection screen, there is a checkbox for websafe colours in the bottom left corner. If this is checked, then your whole document will only be made up of the 256 colours (I think that is the amount), that means if you manually set the hexidecimal or RGB amounts to a colour that is not websafe, then it will only select the nearest match to it. I mention this because this colour "B3C8E3" that you mention in your first post, ends up as "99CCCC" that you mention in your 4th post.

[vampke]

hi,

i doublechecked it and it isn't checked, so i have all the colours in the world!
I doubt that the second colour I mentioned would be the websafe version of the first: the first is blue and the second green

[smokeyb]

Sorry my bad. It was the second example you gave "B2C7E2", and sure enough PS does move this to 99CCCC even though one is blue and one green. Of course I have never trusted PS when I move from 16 or 32bit to websafe, as software/math can never compete with the human eye. And after re-reading your post I can see that it only moves your colour slightly (B3C8E3 to B2C7E2), so I can only think that you maybe using the eyedropper on an image that has a colour isn't pure enough one way or the other, like a badly rendered .jpg?

[jetnovo]

Wow! Thank God for this thread! I've had the colour problem for ages when using Fireworks MX and Dreamweaver MX. It just didn't seem to make sense, but now the problem's sorted.

Thanks everyone :)