# Color Matching **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [December 27, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-matching/10219 "2002-12-27T07:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sneha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Sneha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sneha)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2002, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-matching/10219/1 "2002-12-27T07:13:45Z")
I have used #D0D0D0 color for my GIFs background, when I imported the same gif in Flash and gave same color as Flash Movie background, both appears to be entirely diffrent. Can anyone please help me, how can I match colors of Photoshop and Flash:sigh: ---
**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:** [December 27, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-matching/10219/2 "2002-12-27T07:29:00Z")
No clue, I think it has something to do with your color settings of your monitor or that you are saving in Photoshop. I knew someone that had the same problem, and when they sent me the file I didn’t see any problem. They fixed it, but I have no clue how. ---
**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:** [December 27, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-matching/10219/3 "2002-12-27T15:39:20Z")
i have the same prob. if i make a nice flash movie with a backgroundcollor of lets say #CC0011 and i use the same code in dreamweaver, i don’t get the excact same collor, and both aplications are from Macromedia :sigh: ---
**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:** [December 27, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-matching/10219/4 "2002-12-27T16:10:55Z")
sometimes when you create a gif and you choose a high-compressing level (few colors) the colors on the gif are slightly altered to mach the specified color numbers. Maybe that happened to your gif:-\ You can do one of these two things: 1.1 - choose more colors (ex: 32 to 64 or 64 to 128) for the compression. 1.2 - select exact colors for the compression. 2 - use the gif as it is, and on flash use your **color pick** tool (shortcut **i** ) to find the closest color in flash for the color in the background of your gif. =) ---
**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:** [December 28, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/color-matching/10219/5 "2002-12-28T03:46:55Z")
i know theres a software called PIXELSPY that can match the colors exactly …maybe can do a search from [www.download.com](http://www.download.com) but i dunno which company made it. :crazy: