Vista - picture and fax viewer

hey folks this may be a silly question but its driving me nutts lol
whenever i open a picture in the viewer it has a yellow tint and its messin
with all my pics ..ive never seen this before and i beta tested vista for
some reason i cannot find the settings to change this if anyone has any ideas
let me know of if your interested in a ss let me know thanks
Dave S

Hi Dave,

The following is quoted from the solution provided by Redbeaver:

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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

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Dave" <Dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:63A24D0B-89B1-4C8E-92A7-F6E30E1206B0@microsoft.com...
hey folks this may be a silly question but its driving me nutts lol
whenever i open a picture in the viewer it has a yellow tint and its messin
with all my pics ..ive never seen this before and i beta tested vista for
some reason i cannot find the settings to change this if anyone has any ideas
let me know of if your interested in a ss let me know thanks
Dave S