Thanks for your reply.

I'm going to have this printed by a print shop, so what it looks like on my inkjet printer is somewhat irrelevant. I need to be as sure as possible that the image is correct before sending it to the print shop, otherwise I risk wasting the print run. I can't just assume that 208:28:0 will look the same as 204:0:0 when printed, even though it looks much more orange on the screen.

It is, surely, also irrelevant how I created the image in Photoshop, or indeed if I used any other application. If I open the PNG image in Paint, the red is 204:0:0. My background in Word is 204:0:0: But when I insert the PNG file into Word, the red colour has changed to 208:28:0. This cannot be anything to do with Photoshop. It's got to be Word it seems to me.

>You should also be able to set the colour in Word to 204.0.1

The problem is that the image, when imported, is no longer 204:0:0 - it's 208:28:0. Yes, I could set my background in Word to this colour, but it's not the colour I want. I want a pure red, not an orangey colour... Why is Word modifying my image?

Thanks - Rowan