web safe colours

[meiteens]

hi!
made a design for a website and the problem is i have to save it so that the web-browsers can show the colours right ..is there some plug-in or something so i can save the picture to web-safe colours without damaging the picture?? ..when i save it now (to .jpg file) there is some colour loss and it looks terrible
thanks,
gunta

 

[carlow]

You can save your design with the
"Save for Web"
and try out various combinations

If you wan't to have the best match
use the setting Photoshop Compensation.

This item is at rigt top of the save for web screen, beneath the little triangle

Grillhouse

 

[gollyg]

Saving an image as a JPEG is never going to move it toward a web safe palette - JPEG uses 24 bit colour whereas the web safe palette is a subset of 8 bit colour. The degradation of the image is more likely due to compression settings. Is the file suited to JPEG compression or would GIF be a better solution?

On the topic of the web-safe palette, there are some compelling reasons not to bother with it if it is affecting the quality of the image. For a really thorough article on this issue take a look at

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html?tw=design

post the link to the image if it is up and we can take a look at it.

gollyg