# Bad Colors **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 10, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239 "2003-07-10T20:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@gabe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gabe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/1 "2003-07-10T20:01:01Z")
I’m using hexadecimal color codes (#6699CC) to define the background color of my flash movie, and the background color of the table it sits in. Even though both hex colors the same, the flash background is slightly lighter in color. This makes the site look ‘less-cool’… anyone know why it does this, and preferably how to fix it? You can see the site i’m workin on [here](http://www.dmgrpt.com/gFlash/Site/default.htm) thanks ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/2 "2003-07-10T20:07:03Z")
this is very strange… when i click my own link in previous post, it comes up fine… [http://www.dmgrpt.com/gFlash/Site/default.htm](http://www.dmgrpt.com/gFlash/Site/default.htm) If I type in the address, the aforementioned problem arises… anyone else ever had this problem? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/3 "2003-07-10T20:13:39Z")
about the hex colour thing, i would just open up the color mixer window and instead of typing in hex colours, i would go into the RGB thing (its the big box with every color) and then select if from there, go into the color swatches window, and, below the other swatches fill a new swatch (just click). then go into the background selector thing and grab that color. if it still doesn’t work then theres a bug in flash ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/4 "2003-07-10T20:14:25Z")
that, or just select a slightly darker color to start with ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/5 "2003-07-10T20:21:30Z")
Thanks coppertop… these are two solutions that you wouldn’t think one would have to go to though… I remember now this happening with .png’s that i imported too. There would be a box of slightly lighter color surrounding the .png here is an example… [http://www.zfxdesign.com/misc/gBarPreload.html](http://www.zfxdesign.com/misc/gBarPreload.html) if i’m the only one seeing this, then let me know :cyclops: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/6 "2003-07-10T20:33:29Z")
oh that? thats transperancy, thats unavaoidable as far as i know. unless, you edit the PNG to have a background the same colour as that of the movie ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/7 "2003-07-10T20:41:05Z")
well yeah the second address i posted deals with .png transparency… the first was a problem with the movie background color… and if flash doesn’t recognize .png transparency as really being transparent, flash just lost a lot of cool points… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bad-colors/25239/8 "2003-07-10T20:53:59Z")
:sure: Nevermind about the .png thing… i was doing that wrong. I give the cool points back:thumb: still problems with background color though…