gif image import - mangled colors

[Paul Mennen]

I captured a screenshot as a gif image and used "insert", "picture",
"from file" to import it into a document (Word 2000). When I look
at the gif in photoshop, it looks clean - i.e. all the colors are
solid. When I look at it in Word, the background color in the gif
screen shot (a dark brown of sorts) looks like a moiré pattern
containing at least two colors. This gives an impression of very
low picture quality.

Can Word be told to import the colors without doctoring them?
Actually I'm not too concerned about the color itself. If word
transformed it to a similarly dark color that would be ok as
long as it is solid. Or do I have to go back to my original application
and change the background color to one that word can handle? And
if so, how do I determine which colors Word likes?

By the way, this is not a photograph, so jpg would not be appropriate.
I could use .bmp, but I think I tried that with no improvement.

~Paul

 

[Gaderian]

I captured a screenshot as a gif image and used "insert", "picture",
"from file" to import it into a document (Word 2000). When I look
at the gif in photoshop, it looks clean - i.e. all the colors are
solid. When I look at it in Word, the background color in the gif
screen shot (a dark brown of sorts) looks like a moiré pattern
containing at least two colors. This gives an impression of very
low picture quality.

Can Word be told to import the colors without doctoring them?
Actually I'm not too concerned about the color itself. If word
transformed it to a similarly dark color that would be ok as
long as it is solid. Or do I have to go back to my original
application and change the background color to one that word can
handle? And
if so, how do I determine which colors Word likes?

By the way, this is not a photograph, so jpg would not be appropriate.
I could use .bmp, but I think I tried that with no improvement.

~Paul

Paul,
I always find that the printed result always looks better than the screen
result in Word especially with a .gif. PhotoShop uses more CPU and memory
resources resulting in better screen quality because this is needed for the
best editing results. I find better screen results in Word with a tiff or
as you say a jpg but the trade off is that more system horsepower is needed.

My 2 cents.