# Pngs darker in browser than jpg...WHY!

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**Created:** [March 8, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pngs-darker-in-browser-than-jpg-why/140133 "2005-03-08T17:58:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pngs-darker-in-browser-than-jpg-why/140133/1 "2005-03-08T17:58:50Z")

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I am having problems with png files looking darking once in the browser than jpegs. Does anybody know why this happens? I pulled these images into photoshop to zoom in, sample and compare and they are indeed 1 hex digit off from one another, even though they were sliced from the same file.

Could it be a “web color” issue? Does it have anything to do with how i use photoshop/imageready??? Browser? W3C standards?? crop circles?!?

PLEASE HELP, this is making me sick.

EDIT: i just noticed they’re darker in IE6 but not firefox…