I avoid this problem by using transparent backgrounds on my pics.
 -Mike H.

> I'm very confused by this and hopefully someone will be able to shed 
some 
> light.
> 
> I'm preparing some graphics for a webpage. The background colour of the 
> page is #CCCCCC which I believe to be from the web safe pallete. I have 
> both a gif and a jpeg saved with the PS save for web function. Both 
these 
> optimised images have #CCCCCC as the background colour when viewed in PS
> 
> When I display the page in the browser (IE5) things go wrong.... I can 
see 
> the outline of the .jpg. When I take a screen shot of the browser 
display 
> and paste it into PS I see some strange results.
> 
> The background of the page is actually made up of alternate pixels of 
> #CFC8CF and #C0C8C0 !!??!
> 
> The background of the jpg is displayed as #CFC8CF which makes it visible 
> against the background.
> The background of the gif is displayed as alternate pixels of #CFC8CF 
and 
> #C0C8C0 which merges it with the background even if it is the wrong 
colour!
> 
> Nowhere in the browser display can I see #CCCCCC which I really cannot 
> understand.
> 
> Am I just missing the whole point with web safe colours?
>