color diff from ps>html

It matches on my end.

What I see, and can quantify using ColorPickerPro, is that there's very little difference between the JPEG and the background.

ColorPickerPro reports the JPEG as #989898, R=152, G=152, B=152.
The numbers for the background are: #999999; R=153, G=153, B=153.

Why you see the two shades as being so different is a mystery to me. When's the last time you ran Adobe Gamma, or perhaps another calibration tool? It might help.

I tend to really notice when there are differences, mainly because I'm on a Mac with the brightness really cranked up. The difference between the JPEG and the background is practically nil on my monitor, though I can make it out...just barely. Here's a screenshot that should show you how I perceive the relative difference. It's a large file because I saved it at 100% quality JPEG. The very tip of the eyedropper is placed at the extreme bottom right corner of the square JPEG on your page, where you see the Hex color reported as #989898. Just below and just to the right of the tip of the eyedropper the Hex color is #999999:

OK...here is a screenshot of what I see on that when i click on the link from my last post http://liquid2k.com/knight/snapcolortest.jpg hopefully you all can see this too. Alright I haven't calibrated my monitor in I don't know how long. so that sounds like a good idea. I'll try and do that to see what happens then. Thank you everyone who posted.

edit: you know what, looking at utopians post i c the same difference I am seeing, but he obviously is not...please don't conclude that I am going insane until i've run some sort of calibration :D its gotta be the monitor I will post again the results.

i dunno...jus tried calibrating my monitor with adobe gamma. not quite right I think it may have helped some...but the pinkish tint is still there. I will be gone for a week on vacation so I won't be able to figure this out till I'm back. thanks again for your help.

Hmmm...this is kind of a head scratcher.

I would definitely lean toward exploring color profile matching between your working color space in Photoshop and ImageReady as it relates to your monitor profile.

If we both screen captured the same page (http://www.geocities.com/black21knight/colortest.html) and there's that much of a difference between our screen shots, I can only imagine that you have a wide discrepancy between your working color space and your monitor profile. I'm thinking that somehow the way you have your monitor profiled and adjusted that it interprets the compressed info of the JPEG in a manner that's wa-a-ay different than it deals with the absolute values of Hex color. Even looking at my screenshot, which has now been put through JPEG compression twice, or maybe even 3 times, I still see very little difference between the JPEG square and the background it sits upon. I REALLY see it in your screen shot, and you're right...it does have a pinkish-tint.

Somethingis happening to your image within Photoshop, because ColorPickerPro reports the following values to me when I sample your screen shot:
JPEG.......R=157, G=152, B=158; Hex=#9d989e
Background.....R=145, G=152, B=144; Hex=#919890

I'd post this to the Adobe User-to-User forum with extremely detailed information about how you created the final JPEG color, what compression level you set, what color space your using in Photoshop/ImageReady when you did it (Image--» Mode--» Assign Profile...), what version of Photoshop, your graphics card and monitor info, etc...as much info as you can provide. Somebody there will likely be able to point you toward a solution more quickly.

In the meantime...dump your Photoshop prefs, and try setting the working ColorSpace for a new image in Photoshop to sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or Adobe RGB (1998). It might help.

I jus got back from a week's vacation so this reply may be a little late.

wow utopian, thanx a lot. I'll try that I really appreciate you going through all that to help out. You've been very helpful, best replies I've ever gotten, thanx.