February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
When your GIF is viewed in a browser on an 8-bit monitor, the colors in the image get remapped to the browser’s built-in web-safe palette. This often results in unwanted dithering in areas of flat color. You can prevent dithering on 8-bit monitors by designing with colors from the web palette in the first place. It requires a little extra effort and an adjustment to a limited color choice, but the payoff is that you, not the browser, control whether and how the image dithers. Figure 29-11 shows how dithering can be avoided by using a web-safe color in the design.
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