Locking and Changing Colors in the GIF Color Table ![[This article includes Camtasia Video Tutorial segments]](/images/camtasia.gif)
By: Jim Babbage on Monday, June 13, 2005
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Slicing your designs in Fireworks can really help with the weight of your page and with getting the best format/compression for a particular area of a design. However, slicing can sometimes produce unexpected color shifts when you export GIF slices. This is due to the fact that each slice has it's very own color palette, and — especially when you are using the Web Adaptive or Adaptive palettes — colors may shift based on the color range in the slice. While not always visually noticeable in Fireworks the resulting problem can be seen quite well when two sliced graphics with the "same" background color are next to each other on a web page.
This tutorial looks at ways deal with color export/color matching issues, both from the Dreamweaver perspective and the Fireworks perspective. The video tutorial shows in detail how to change and lock colors in the Optimize Panel's GIF color table
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