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I'm in the process of building a website on my friend's PC and tesing files on a server but when I get home and check out the pages on both of my home PCs, the colors aren't showing up as they should. Essentially, the entire site colors have a gray/green hue to them instead of blue and light blue. Black and yellow are fine but it looks as though the site is greenish gray. But, when I get back to my friend's place and view it there, the colors are clearly defined as they should be. We're both using IE6, and I also viewed it on my PCs in Mozilla Firefox as well and it still persists.
Not sure why it's fine on one PC and not on the other two. Has anyone had the same problem or know what this could be?
Much appreciated.
Just a thought, but the color gamma on your friends monitor may be out-of-whack.
Calibrate his monitor using Adobe Gamma. It's pretty good for a free monitor calibration tool. I am assuming if it looks the same between your monitors at home, which you have two of, then your friends one monitor is in need of calibrations. However, it COULD be that BOTH your monitors at home need calibration.
Either way, the internet is not a very good place to be picky about what "hue" colors end up being, considering that there are browsers still out there that will view only web-safe colors. I've seen them turn a dark green into orange before. Also consider how many monitors are out there. How many color profiles that are probably messed up. You do the best you can ... If it's really close, it's probably good enough.
But like I said, if it is WAY off... try someone elses computer to determine who's calibration is off, yours or your friends, and see if that helps.
-- Zak
