FLASH: Re: Movie BG Color not matching HTML body color

[Laura Hamilton]

Julie Fell wrote:

p.s. The color I am using is #3864A0. The movie is set at 800x600 so you

will only notice it if your screen resolution is set to 1024x768 or higher.

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Julie,

You need to use a web-safe color in order to render the color similarly in

both browser and Flash movie. #3864A0 is *not* web safe. Web safe colors are

any combinations with the colors listed in pairs: #FF3300, #FFFFFF, #3366CC,

and so on. You can see a chart of them (sorted by hue) at

http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html.


You can find a lengthy article discussing why even some web-safe colors

might still not render identically at Webmonkey

(http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html?tw=design), but my

guess is that switching to the nearest web-safe equivalent of your chose

color will solve your problem.


The web safe palette should be built into your Flash as the default palette

(it is in Flash 4). You can also find it in the Adobe Photoshop palette set.


Laura Hamilton

http://www.viviente.com



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