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Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif)

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Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif) ehchn1 12 Mar 09:00
  Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif) Ray Redd 14 Mar 01:32
   Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif) Chris Mohler 14 Mar 04:28
    Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif) ehchn1 15 Mar 00:31
ehchn1
2007-03-12 09:00:37 UTC (almost 18 years ago)

Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif)

Hi,

I have a psd image button created with GIMP. It has blue background and white font (R=255, G=255, B=255)

However, I need it in GIF. After doing an export to GIF, the font color is a bit different from the original.
It's now (R=247, G=253, B=255).

Is there anyway that I can preserve the original font color? Please advise.

Thanks.

Ray Redd
2007-03-14 01:32:50 UTC (almost 18 years ago)

Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif)

From: ehchn1
Subject: [Gimp-user] Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:00:37 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

I have a psd image button created with GIMP. It has blue background and white font (R=255, G=255, B=255)

However, I need it in GIF. After doing an export to GIF, the font color is a bit different from the original.
It's now (R=247, G=253, B=255).

Is there anyway that I can preserve the original font color? Please advise.

Thanks.

Probably not. GIF recognizes only 256 colors in total. Some change is to be expected.

Chris Mohler
2007-03-14 04:28:22 UTC (almost 18 years ago)

Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif)

On 3/13/07, Ray Redd wrote:

From: ehchn1
Subject: [Gimp-user] Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:00:37 -0700 (PDT)

Hi,

I have a psd image button created with GIMP. It has blue background and white font (R=255, G=255, B=255)

However, I need it in GIF. After doing an export to GIF, the font color is a bit different from the original.
It's now (R=247, G=253, B=255).

Is there anyway that I can preserve the original font color? Please advise.

Thanks.

Probably not. GIF recognizes only 256 colors in total. Some change is to be expected.

Yeah but RGB white should probably be preserved. Try saving it as .xcf first, and possibly changing the image mode to 'indexed' before saving the GIF - maybe you can fine-tune the indexing.

PNG is a good replacemnt for GIF, btw - it will also be more accurate.

Chris

PS - if you want to send me the PSD off-list I will take a look.

ehchn1
2007-03-15 00:31:37 UTC (almost 18 years ago)

Inaccurate Font Color After Export (psd -> gif)

Hi all,

Saving to xcf first, then only as gif solved it. The font color remains as it is.

Thanks for the help.