The Biology Project Lecture Series

• Choose colors for drawing and typing from the browser-safe palette. Lynda Weinman has a nice set of colors, along with their values, at http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html

• When reducing from RGB to indexed color mode (ie, 24 bit to 8 bit color), choose an "adaptive palette". This palette will have many of the browser-safe colors (because that's what you started with) and additional non-browser-safe colors. That's OK, as long as the graphic degrades well.

• Try tools such as Webscrub or WebClipper that are intended to shift more of the pixels in a gif over to the browser-safe zone.

• Don't dither the graphic. This makes the gif file size bigger and can look ugly.

Browser safe colors can also be "mixed."

• hybrid-safe background swatches
• Photoshop Plugin ColorSafe