User Guide

Academic Courseware: Chapter 6
Joyce Ryan
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It is advisable to create images for the Web using Web-safe colors from
the beginning. That way your image will not change, and it will not
need dithering. To use Web-safe colors, open the Netscape Navigator
color set by going to the Color Sets palette drop-down menu and
clicking Open Color Set. Choose Netscape Navigator 216. Load the
color set and make sure you select your colors from it while creating
your Web graphics.
Sometimes the color palette has already been set with other output in
mind. Perhaps you are re-purposing video to use on the Web. You have
to take an image from millions of colors down to 256 colors or fewer. In
Limit the number of colors
you use. Fewer colors lead to smaller
file sizes.
Corel Painter offers many
powerful Web design tools, including
tools for image slicing, rollovers, and
image maps. Check the online Help or
your manual to familiarize yourself
with all the Web options offered to you.
Corel Painter even ships with a Web
brushes library of “Web-safe” brushes.