Megan — Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:19:01 +0000

Webmonkey had an article awhile back that talked about how websafe colours aren't even truly websafe! I think they found something like 22 colours that always worked properly.

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

With all the different colour settings and calibration possibilities I figure that I'm never going to get something to look exactly as I want it on every machine (and that goes with browsers and screen resolutions too!). I usually start a design with websafe but I don't worry too much if I end up using some that aren't. As long as it's usable some minor variations in design don't bother me.

Busy — Mon, 24 Sep 2001 06:47:49 +0000

this is from two of my old sites tracker:
(screen colors)

16 Bit (65K) 57.01%
32 Bit (16.7M) 29.65%
24 Bit (16.7M) 10.44%
8 Bit (256) 2.60%
Other 0.25%

and

16 Bit (65K) 53.08%
32 Bit (16.7M) 21.10%
24 Bit (16.7M) 10.47%
8 Bit (256) 9.83%
Other 5.50%

if that gives you an idea of what people use, others may have bigger, varied results.

I use PSP (paint shop pro), I really like the eye dropper for matching colors, however the colors can change slightly when compressed (saved as .jpg), but a trick with .jpg is never save it more than once, always work on a .bmp etc then when finished save as .jpg, resaving a .jpg will continue to compress it.