That might be true, but I want to be clear that the photo gallery view
(non-slideshow mode) does indeed display a poorer quality when simply viewing
an image - and more importantly when making color corrections to an image
within photo gallery. If you don't have accurate color to begin with, then
you will be changing the color - to try to correct something that is already
corrected - further skewing the color from the source (your fine digital
camera, for instance).
Can anyone else confirm that they are seeing this? I've included the test
image again here:
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.
"Slugsie" wrote:
> I think that when Photo Gallery goes into SlideShow mode (click the big
> square button at center bottom) it drops down to a very low resolution to
> display the images. This has obvious problems. If you double click an image
> whilst in the thumbnail mode it keeps your current resolution, and thus does
> a much better job of viewing images, at least for me anyway.
>
> I think that the SlideShow mode is designed for viewing images on a device
> like a TV, using a '10 foot interface' (as MS like to call it). It's not
> designed to be used sat at the desktop (a '2 foot interface').
>
> Oh, and I agree, it sucks.
>
> --
> </Slugsie>
> "Simon Cobb" <Simon Cobb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news
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> > 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
>
>