Color Code is not working, please help

Question

I am using the color code 080808 from adobe photoshop as my background for my template.  When i put the JPG file into dreamweaver and try to set the page properties in dreamweaver (background) to 080808 it is putting me at pure black.  please help me.080808 is not a pure black its a shade of it.  I need a color code that matches 080808 correctly.  thanks
I am using adobe CS3

Answer 1

I'm not quite sure I understand exactly what you are doing, but I ran into something like this myself.  I was creating GIFs in Photoshop -- type on a background color.  I then created DW pages.  I used the same color code for the background color in PS and again for the background color in DW, but when I inserted the images in the page, they did not match.  It turned out that when I created a new file in PS, I was creating it in my default color space, Adobe RGB.  I assumed that when Save For Web converted the file to sRGB, the colors would convert perfectly.  What I found is that I should have been creating my PS files by starting with a new file in sRGB color space.  Once I did that, the background color of my images identically matched the background color of my DW page.
Hope this helps.
John