Trouble Matching Color Between Ps and Dw

I've generated a simple shadow around my page design in
Photoshop (the shadow blends into the background color via a soft
gradient). I've imported a small section of the shadow into
Dreamweaver and placed it in a special table cell to duplicate the
affect in Dw.
This is very simple. I'm using web-safe colors (#336699) both
in Ps and Dw. All artwork was created on my Mac Pro running Leopard
(10.5.2).
When I test my design in Firefox it looks perfect. When I
copy the site folder over to Dw on my Windows XP machine and test
in IE it also looks perfect. It also looks perfect when I open the
design up in Dw on the Windows machine (in the document window).
HOWEVER ... the colors do NOT match in the Dw document window
on my Mac. Nor do they match when I test the page using Safari on
my Mac.
I'm perplexed. I'm somewhat new to Dw, but I've been using Ps
and Gl for a long time. I think I know how to match colors in the
workflow. I recently upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and I'm wondering if
this is a bug?
One other thing ... the pull-down menus in the Dw color
selection areas aren't always functional. Sometimes the color
picking windows will close leaving the pull-down menus
unresponsive. You have to hit the escape key to exit. If you are
very careful you can get the menus to work using the middle mouse
button (I'm using a wireless Mighty Mouse).
Can anyone offer me guidance ... or has anyone else
experienced these problems in Dw? TIA.

In Photoshop, are you working in RBG or CMYK mode? RGB output
is the mode
for web graphics. What type of graphic are you using when you
Save to Web
As - gif, jpg or png? Jpg and png will give you better color
matching
control than gif. Gif is capable of producing only 216 web
safe colors (256
minus about 40 colors which are reserved by the various
operating systems or
are not rendered by browsers). Jpg and png can produce 16
million (24 bit)
Truecolor. If you are attempting to color match your web
graphics with hex
#color codes for backgrounds, then your best bet is to use
jpg or png.
http://alt-web.com/HexColorChart.shtml
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
"anyoneSeenMaiTai" <[email protected]> wrote
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> I've generated a simple shadow around my page design in
Photoshop (the
shadow
> blends into the background color via a soft gradient).
I've imported a
small
> section of the shadow into Dreamweaver and placed it in
a special table
cell to
> duplicate the affect in Dw.
>
> This is very simple. I'm using web-safe colors (#336699)
both in Ps and
Dw.
> All artwork was created on my Mac Pro running Leopard
(10.5.2).
>
> When I test my design in Firefox it looks perfect. When
I copy the site
folder
> over to Dw on my Windows XP machine and test in IE it
also looks perfect.
It
> also looks perfect when I open the design up in Dw on
the Windows machine
(in
> the document window).
>
> HOWEVER ... the colors do NOT match in the Dw document
window on my Mac.
Nor
> do they match when I test the page using Safari on my
Mac.
>
> I'm perplexed. I'm somewhat new to Dw, but I've been
using Ps and Gl for
a
> long time. I think I know how to match colors in the
workflow. I recently
> upgraded my Mac to 10.5.2 and I'm wondering if this is a
bug?
>
> One other thing ... the pull-down menus in the Dw color
selection areas
aren't
> always functional. Sometimes the color picking windows
will close leaving
the
> pull-down menus unresponsive. You have to hit the escape
key to exit. If
you
> are very careful you can get the menus to work using the
middle mouse
button
> (I'm using a wireless Mighty Mouse).
>
> Can anyone offer me guidance ... or has anyone else
experienced these
problems
> in Dw? TIA.
>

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