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Thread ID: 78987 2007-05-04 15:23:00 Web-dev help: Getting the background the right color (Hex value?) Chilling_Silence (9) Press F1
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547061 2007-05-04 15:23:00 Hey guys

So, Ive got the top part that I want, fading in from white up top to blue down bottom using this pic and tiling it horizontally:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
BODY {
background-image: URL(images/bgtile.png);
background-repeat: repeat-x}
-->
</style>
Attached file: bgtile.png (www.imagef1.net.nz) (1 KB)

BTW - Its only 1px wide, just in case you missed it ;)
Heres the RGB / HSL values of the very bottom blue:
Attached file: rgbhsl.png (www.imagef1.net.nz) (43 KB)

Question is, how do I get the hex value right so that the background color is going to match the very bottom color of my bgtile.png?

Ive tried saving it in Word / Frontpage and its never right, Ive tried online converters, still not right..

Open to suggestions / comments

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
547062 2007-05-04 15:45:00 Ive tried saving it in Word / Frontpage and its never right, Ive tried online converters, still not right..Chill.
Your first mistake is trying to use Word/Frontpage for doing that. There is a program I think called "Colour Picker" which is very usefull for getting RGB values
By the way Chill have you had a gander at the l latest t PCLinuxOS 		mikebartnz (21)
547063 2007-05-04 20:59:00 Question is, how do I get the hex value right so that the background color is going to match the very bottom color of my bgtile.png?

Ive tried saving it in Word / Frontpage and its never right, Ive tried online converters, still not right..
KColorChooser!

That gives #0C2E82 for the bottom colour. 		Jen (38)
547064 2007-05-04 22:48:00 Question is, how do I get the hex value right so that the background color is going to match the very bottom color of my bgtile.png?The colour you want is #185188. Greg (193)
547065 2007-05-04 23:09:00 Greg! Onto it mate, thats perfect!

Howd you do it?

I got the same result as Jen, which was disappointing coz it was off a bit :(

Thanks heaps! :D

Mike:
Nah man, been too busy with other stuff lately, but gave Ubuntu 7.04 a whirl and its pretty choice eh :) REALLY simple stuff, like automating nVidia driver installs, video codecs, installation of Samba when I go to turn on the service... good stuff :) Might do it soon thou 		Chilling_Silence (9)
547066 2007-05-04 23:16:00 Greg! Onto it mate, thats perfect!

Howd you do it?
With a little help from my friend... Dreamweaver. I saved the image in a new document and just used the color picker tool to pick it up.

For reference here's (www.imagef1.net.nz) System Color settings. 		Greg (193)
547067 2007-05-05 00:22:00 Adobe Photoshop 6.0 has a colour-picker tool as well.

Cheers :) 		Renmoo (66)
547068 2007-05-05 00:45:00 Yeah there were a variety of options to choose from to get the result. Greg (193)
547069 2007-05-05 01:33:00 colorzilla (www.iosart.com)

Although I must admit i normally use fireworks 		Morgenmuffel (187)
547070 2007-05-05 03:33:00 And of course, you could have looked at the values you had: Red = 12 (0x0c), Green = 46 (0x2e), Blue = 130 (0x82).

So it's "0c2e82". 		Graham L (2)
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