Vista - Yellow cast issue...

Possibly, I have a setting that is incorrent... Opening images in Photo
Gallery results in a yellow background for the Gallery window and an image
with a strong yellowish tint. This applies to all images... In other words,
it wasn't like this in XP!

Any thoughts?

Thx,

Mike

"MiKeV" <MiKeV@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Possibly, I have a setting that is incorrent... Opening images in Photo
> Gallery results in a yellow background for the Gallery window and an image
> with a strong yellowish tint. This applies to all images... In other
> words,
> it wasn't like this in XP!
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thx,
>
> Mike


The following is quoted from the solution provided by Redbeaver:

First off, there r 2 solutions i discovered...one is if u have Photoshop
installed, the other if you don't.

If you do have, in Control Panel, there's an Adobe Gamma tool. Run it by
step-by-step wizard (or by Control Panel if u know what u'r doing) and
create
ur own Profile. Name it anything, i name mine Vista-1 just so its easier to
see. It will create an ICM profile immediately installed in Window's
system32-spool-color folder (given u dont change the saving location. better
yet, dont even try.). Done?
Back in Vista's control panel, open the Colour Management tool. In there
u'll see the default ICC profile, mine named Samsung - Natural Color Pro 1.0
ICM, file name SM205BW.icm since my monitor is a Samsung 205BW. Click on
Add.., and if you scroll down, u'll see ur profile; again, mine said
Vista-1.
U might need to click on Browse.. if u dont see yours becoz u saved it
somewhere else...
[Now, this part i'm not sure whether u need to do it, but i did it
anyway.... Click on the Profiles button on the right bottom corner and click
on Combine My Settings with System Defaults. then...]
Click OK, and click on Vista-1 and click on Set as Default Profile. Click
Close.

Now try opening a picture in WPG

Ooops, almost forgot, for people who doesnt have Photoshop, u can google any
free ICC profile or go to:
http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/adobergb.html
Download these free ICC, and install some..or..well... i tried installing
all of them anyway... Just extract them, then right click and select
Install...

Now go to Vista Control Panel, open Color Management, and click on Add...
Scroll down and all of the installed ICC should be there. Pick one and set
it
default. [Again, u could click on Profiles and select Combine My Profile...
but im not sure about this.] Click Close and you're good to go.

Of course if it still shows the wrong colour just pick a different ICC and
try it. First ICC i tried is the Adobe1998 one and it seems to be working
fine... Of course im no expert and if any of u experts sees the better ICC
in
there (there r like 10~15 of them in the ZIP), by all means correct me.

THat's all.

Hope that helps