Colour Issues

[(Shovel)]

Hello, not been in here for me for a while

Erm: I've created an image in photoshop, told it to play websafe for the background (it's got a complex pattern that can't easily be made transparent).

Now, apart from some issues with colour matching itself (this isn't the problem, I'm used to fighting that), there is an odder problem.

For example: The colour "#666699" comes up in Photoshop as a quite nice grey-blue (small hint of purple to it).

However, save the image, and choose it in HTML-Kit and the colour is much nearer purple.
Also, if I enter the Hex code as a colour it is the same purple colour! The colour changes when I choose the "save for web" option, and if I load the optimised image photoshop will display it blue again.

I noticed something similar with screenshots. Is anyone familer with the kinda purple scrollbars in Java apps? They came up blue in PS.

I've not knowingly messed with any pallettes or anything like that, I'm really confused! It kinda makes web graphics a bit of a no go though, since getting the colours right is a *tad* important!

Thanks for any light you can shed on this!

Ben

 

[Will]

I've not got time for the long answer, so I'll just say "Its all Photoshops fault". When I failed to config it properly one install, all my greys were faun for some reason.

 

[(Shovel)]

OK, Thanks Will.

If you happen to have some time later to point me towards the bit of PS that needs a good twaking I'd be really grateful, if not, I'll have a scour through the preferences and suchlike later on!

Thank you That was the confirmation I wanted anyway!

 

[(Shovel)]

Fixed it

Thanks for the tip Will.

The problem was in:

Edit -> Colour Settings.

The setting was set to "Web Graphics Default" that was buggering the colours a little. I changed it to "Colour Management Off" and the image promptly turned back to it's natural purple.

I can only assume that these modes have thier use them you are working soley within PS, printing from it and suchlike, but when you want to export outside it seems best to disable any modifier settings.