HELP! image imported to library shows up a different color...
Posted in xn--kfs74mzzid01b.com edit by jane on January 7th, 2009
i made the jump from windows to apple a few months ago and this is my first development on the mac, so i don't know if there's something i'm not doing right or what cause i never had this happen on windows...
i created a site layout in photoshop cs2 and i exported it as a .png file. now i want to import that layout into flash 8. but when i import it into flash, the rich color of green i used is now a really crappy washed out green. what gives?! does it have to do with "web safe" colors or something?!
just open the attached .png in photoshop and see it as it should be. then try and import it into flash and watch it get all messed up!
i know what some of you might say... just export the white areas from ps to flash and avoid the green in the backgorund. i'd like to, but the green in the lower left where the logo is should look like it's "floating" in the background and a part of the menu system.
anyway... i'm at my wits end... can someone please point me in the right direction so i get get on with development?! thanks!
: : michael
this was the first thing i thought of, but when i opened the attached .png in PS it says the colour profile is RGB.
k.
in PS it's: #4CB800
and once brought into Flash its: #5EC300
but then i saved it out again as a .png (although i'm working on a PC at the moment) and brought it into Flash and it looks fine.
not sure why... you're saving it as a 24-bit png i assume?
i'll try this again when i get home tonight, i've got a mac there. that is if someone with a mac at their disposal doesn't find this thread before then.
k.
haha, you're helping me go crazy... i don't know what's wrong with this?!
i'm stumped dude. but then i'm no expert when it comes to colours. i'll tell you what i've found but i can't explain why it happens.
i forgot that i don't have CS2 at home, only CS. but i don't know how that would make any difference in this case. anyway here's what i've found...
on my mac, i brought the image you posted straight into Flash and i sampled the green and it gives me the same hex that i got when i did this on PC (#5EC300). i opened it in PS and i get what should be the actual colour (#4CB800).
i used 2 different methods of saving from PS, Save for Web and Save As. this is where Mac and PC seem to differ. on a PC, it doesn't matter how i save it from PS, it looks the same when I bring it into flash, and its the right colour green, and it even looks the same when i compare it side-by-side in each application.
but, on a Mac Save for Web and Save As produce different results. Save for Web seems to suck some colour out, where Save As looks like it leaves the colour alone. but once they're brought into Flash, both look different although neither look like the right green (that PS is displaying). BUT the image i created with Save As is, as far as Flash is concerned, the right colour. I sampled it, and it gives me the right hex (#4CB800) but it looks nothing like the green that PS is showing.
all i can say is hopefully a "colour expert" finds your thread so they can explain all this. its common knowledge that Mac and PC display colours differently, but i didn't think they handled them differently too!
maybe some of these Mac/PC comparisons i've made are in actual fact just differences in various colour settings in PS between my Mac and my PC. but i don't know enough about it to check.
k.
in PS it's: #4CB800
and once brought into Flash its: #5EC300
but then i saved it out again as a .png (although i'm working on a PC at the moment) and brought it into Flash and it looks fine.
not sure why... you're saving it as a 24-bit png i assume?
i'll try this again when i get home tonight, i've got a mac there. that is if someone with a mac at their disposal doesn't find this thread before then.
k.
yeah, i'm using the 24-bit png. and you're helping me not think i'm crazy since i don't remember this happening on my pc... lemme know how it goes on your mac when you get a chance. thanks so much!!!
: : michael
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