Mac Mini not showing certain colors

[mp4]

When viewing a webpage I'm building on my Mini, parts that are #F8F8F8 are displaying as the same color as the background (#FFFFFF). I'm stumped as to why; I've tried Safari, Firefox, IE, and even IE on XP through VNC. It displays fine on the same monitor if attatched to my PC.

I've tried calibrating the display, and manually calibrating the monitor, with no change.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Used the default sRGB profile?

Radish?

[mp4]

Yep, that and all available profiles.

[Fusion]

Millions of Colors selected?

[mp4]

Yep, I've tried the others just in case, too.

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I have my 17" Powerbook's display calibrated with a Spyder2PRO Studio, and the difference between #ffffff and #f8f8f8 is very slight, probably even less so at the default gamma 1.8. (I use 2.2 to keep my work looking the same on most displays; like it or not, there are a lot more Windows users out there)

Try opening up Photoshop or whatever your image editor is and creating a big image with a white background, then fill it with #f8f8f8. You should see a difference.

At a first glance, it could easily be mistaken for white though, if there is no pure white onscreen as a reference point.

[mp4]

Thanks for the replies, guys.

It's not a huge bother, so I'll live with it.

[RadishTM Veteran]

The only other thing I can think of is to repair the colour profiles via the ColorSync Utility in Utilities.

Radish?

[mp4]

Installing Photoshop (CS 1.0) seems to have set it's own color profile - which solved my problem.

Hope this helps anyone in the future.

[Southern Patriot]

There is a forum that my wife visits occaionally that does something like this on Safari. The top banner should be one consistant color across the top (and it displays that way in other browsers), but in Safari there is an obvious break in it between the background image and the forum's logo.

[toastyghost]

  roadwarrior said:

There is a forum that my wife visits occaionally that does something like this on Safari.  The top banner should be one consistant color across the top (and it displays that way in other browsers), but in Safari there is an obvious break in it between the background image and the forum's logo.

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If they've used a repeated .png image for the background of the page or that banner, then it'll be related to the weird colour profiles embedded/ignored by PNG images. They look inconsistent across all browsers, which has led me to use them sparingly despite their high quality for the filesize.