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Graphics For the Web: explained

Web-Safe Colors:


There are 216 to choose from. But they still don't look consistent from computer to computer, but they should be close.

Some monitors only display 8 bit color and are limited to 256 colors. 40 are used by system software and browsers, so we are left with 216.

-24 bit monitors can display just about anything. 35% of people have these.
-16 bit monitors can display more than 8 bit. 55% of people have these.
-8 bit monitors display 256 colors. 10% of people have.

read more: on the inaccuracy of web-safe colors

From Photoshop you can see all the possible web-safe colors in the swatches panel.


Converting existing images to Browser Safe colors:
samples on local drive>>>

(not for photographs, use an adaptive palette and save them as JPEG)

1. Open an image in Photoshop.

2. Choose Image>Mode>RGB if it is not already an RGB image

3. Choose Image>Mode>Indexed Color

4. In the Indexed Color dialog box, choose Web from the Palette pull-down menu.

5. Click ok.