wow...I never thought of that...I actually returned a camera because I was so
disappointed at the quality of the pictures!!
"Michael J" wrote:
> Yes - I am seeing poor display quality too! SHAME on Microsoft for not
> catching this - it's the heart and soul of their new Vista OS and MUST be
> fixed.
>
> Basically, the jpgs that are displayed in the Photo Gallery do not show
> accurate color. I've taken some beautiful photos of my family in Florida
> using my Canon EOS 20d and 50mm f1.4 lens. I loaded them into Vista's photo
> gallery and noticed that the hair was splotchy and the skin tone had a green
> cast. I then clicked the "Open in other program" buttom at the top left of
> WPG and opened in Quicktime Picture Viewer, Adobe Photoshop, IE 7, Firefox 2
> and Nero Picture Show - and they ALL show the image PERFECTLY. The hair is
> clean - not splotchy in the shaded areas and the skin tone is warm with no
> green cast. You can try this test at home using any image - just open the
> same image in another program and you'll see what I'm saying.
>
> Here is a link to the test photo:
>
> http://www.jurick.net/archive/galler...t/IMG_4353.jpg
>
> When viewing in Vista WPG, notice the girls hair on the right, then open the
> image in another program and you'll see a dramatic difference. The image is
> tagged with an sRGB profile.
>
> I REALLY look forward to hearing from Microsoft on this - as I'm sure there
> will be plenty of other color aware photographers that will be sorely
> disspointed with the heart of Vista.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Michael
>
> "Simon Cobb" wrote:
>
> > I'm running Vista Ultimate RTM on a high end system. I just loaded 60-odd
> > JPG images taken with a Nikon D40 DSLR onto my PC and viewed them through
> > WPG. Given this was a brand new camera and these were the first images I had
> > shot, I was horrified with their quality and initially assumed my camera was
> > faulty. The images were terribly over-saturated, unsharp and noisy. I then
> > opened the images for editing in Microsoft Digital Image Suite. Lo and
> > behold, the images are sharp and properly saturated.
> >
> > While I'm relieved that my camera is performing correctly, what on earth is
> > going on with WPG to cause such appalling display characteristics?
> >
> > Incidentally, I saw similarly poor results when I viewed the images in the
> > new Slide Show viewer.
> >
> > Anyone else seen similar results? Is there a fix?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Simon