NTSC Broadcast Safe Colors

[allenz]

Anyone know where I can find a color chart with Broadcast safe color codes?

I make my title pages in PSP and bring them into Vegas. I need to adjust reds, blues and whites so they don't bleed on the TV.

I pretty well got the blue and white down good but I'm having problems trying to get the red/white combination. Red is still got a shadow.
Thanks
Allen

[thayne]

I don't know if PSP has it, but photoshop has a filter that converts your image to NTSC colors.

[adam]

http://www.dvdcreation.com/2003/09_sep/features/dvd4designers10309043.htm

Try reading the last part of that guide.

[allenz]

Thanks Adam. Very informative.
Allen

[lordsmurf]

I don't know if PSP has it, but photoshop has a filter that converts your image to NTSC colors.

It's flawed. Don't use it. It'll convert yellow to brown, red to magenta, and blue to teal/black sometimes for no reason.

[thayne]

I don't know if PSP has it, but photoshop has a filter that converts your image to NTSC colors.

It's flawed. Don't use it. It'll convert yellow to brown, red to magenta, and blue to teal/black sometimes for no reason.

Here is a general rule for the colors you should use when creating graphics for television.

* No color should have any R, G or B value higher than 235 or lower than 16.
* Black is not black, and white is not white; instead, use RGB values of 16, 16, 16 for black and 235, 235, 235 for white. It looks terrible on your computer screen, but it looks normal on TV.
* No color should be over-saturated in any one channel, so values in the R, G and B channels should be within 191 of each other. (For example, R 200, G 100, B 50 is good, while R235, G 16, B 16 is not.)

[lordsmurf]

I don't know if PSP has it, but photoshop has a filter that converts your image to NTSC colors.

It's flawed. Don't use it. It'll convert yellow to brown, red to magenta, and blue to teal/black sometimes for no reason.

Here is a general rule for the colors you should use when creating graphics for television.

* No color should have any R, G or B value higher than 235 or lower than 16.
* Black is not black, and white is not white; instead, use RGB values of 16, 16, 16 for black and 235, 235, 235 for white. It looks terrible on your computer screen, but it looks normal on TV.
* No color should be over-saturated in any one channel, so values in the R, G and B channels should be within 191 of each other. (For example, R 200, G 100, B 50 is good, while R235, G 16, B 16 is not.)

Yeah. But the filters still shoots out oddball values that don't work from time-to-time.

[energy80s]

Yeah. But the filters still shoots out oddball values that don't work from time-to-time.

Sounds absolutely perfect for NTSC!!

Never The Same Colour.

[lordsmurf]

Never The Same Colour.

Or PAL = Picture, Audio Lousy