Hi guys! so I'm designing a website for a client and I just noticed that the bg color looks different in Mac and Windows, I'm actually using a gradient image for the background: CSS --- repeat-x , well and then obviously the HEX color code which in Windows matches and blends perfectly, but you can see a slightly different color when viewing the site on a MAC, is there a way to solve this? Thanks in advance for your help Thank you!
You will get color variations between different monitors unless they are calibrated (and you'll still have some variance). Macs OS X uses 1.8 gamma by default, Windows uses 2.2.
Perfect answer. So what I would do is find a color thats variantes are the the closest match in both...kind of like picking an "inbetween" if you will.
before you change anything: your background image - what format is it? gif? png? jpg? it does make a difference here...
Hey guys!! thanks for the advice! Well The thing is I can't find an "in-between" color that the problem, now, answering innovati's question, image is saved as .JPG, I'm really frustrated about this, I cant find a way to solve it. thanks for the advice
okay, my question about the format doesn't matter if it's a JPEG - carry on as you were! (certain image formats save a gamma value in the image, but JPEG isn't one of those)
Every monitor displays colors differently. You can buy two identical monitors and get differences in colors on the same computer. Even if you were to get the same color on both machines, they are going to display differently on other peoples computers. What you should do is try to calibrate both you monitors and choose a color that looks the best to you, but realize it going to be impossible to come up with a certain color that is going to display the same to all your visitors monitors.
Hmmm ok guys! Thanks for your advice, i really appreciate it, and well I've tried some stuff but still in different monitors I can figure put how to make it work, I've changed the colors slightly so that it looks better but I'll see what else I can do. Cheers!