Windows Vista Photo Gallery Yellow Tint Background Problem
Windows Photo Gallery is a photo management, image tagging and editing tool that comes free with Windows Vista. Windows Photo Gallery is the default association program in Vista that is configured to handle and associated with a few picture file formats and extensions, such as .bmp Bitmap Image, ico Icon, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, JPEG Image, .PNG PNG Image, .tif, .tiff TIFF Image, and .wdp Windows Media Photo, and you can set the program as the default program for more image file types.
When displaying and viewing photos in Windows Photo Gallery of Vista, some monitors or LCD flat panel displays may have a strange problem in which the images will be shown with a orange or yellowish tinge in photos’ background, affecting the display natural color of pictures to become something like Sepia effect. The entire window on WPG appears to be colored in slightly yellowish tint, and is therefore appear darker, including the panels on either side of the photo display which which appear yellow on the desktop but are white in actual.The yellow tinted photos may also affect other default image viewer in Windows Vista. In some case, the yellow tinge problem goes away when the photos are viewed in slideshow mode, or in some other image manipulation tool such as Adobe Photoshop, Paint or Paint.NET or photo management utility such as Google Picasa.
The symptom is likely to occur after update of incompatible monitor driver, especially on Samsung LCD flat panel monitor driver update via Windows Update. The cause for the error is the usage of incorrect color profile for the monitor in Color Management setting.
To solve the problem and restore normal colors in Windows Photo Gallery, you can try one of the resolutions below. All actions will be done at Color Management tab, which is accessible by right click on Desktop, and select Personalize on the contextual menu. Click on Display Settings link in the Personalization menu. In the Display Settings window, click on Advanced Settings… button. Then click on Color Management tab, and finally click on Color Management… button. You will need to select (tick) Use my settings for this device to be able to remove, change or set new color profiles.
The first workaround is by removing any existing ICC or WCS color profiles that are been associated with all display devices or monitors. Else, you can also try to change the default color profile for your system’s monitor to sRGB IEC61966-2.1, simply by clicking on Add, and then select sRGB IEC61966-2.1 from the list of profiles installed on system. After adding, click Set as Default Profile button. Exit from all dialogs and reboot your computer, and the color problem on Windows Photo Gallery is fixed.
If your system doesn’t have sRGB IEC61966-2.1 profile under the ICC Profiles, you can download the color profile from Adobe. Unpack the zip file, the right click on each of the .icc files in the RGB Profiles and CMYK Profiles folders (or simply just the one you need to use) and click “Install Profile” on context menu to install the color profile to system.
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November 11th, 2009 01:51
Thanks!! Was driving me crazy!! Now all my programs are displaying the same colors!!
October 25th, 2009 16:50
thanks a bunch!!
it fix my problem with my Samsung 2233SW on
Windows 7 RTM 64bit.
October 11th, 2009 00:28
I can’t tell you how greatful I am for this! I might say that I’m using Windows 7 and it works fine there aswell except you have to take another route around to find the settings, though I’m using it in Swedish so I don’t know what it would be in English but THANKS again, this really saved me from hysteria!
October 8th, 2009 19:40
Nice one, this fixed my issue with a Samsung SyncMaster 2433.
October 6th, 2009 23:26
Thank you very much for this article! It works.
My problem’s gone!
(on 64Bit Vista and Samsung SyncMaster 2693HM)
September 26th, 2009 23:57
Hello, thanks for the article. Fixed the problem I was having with Windows 7 and my Samsung 205BW!
September 26th, 2009 00:34
[...] this should fix the problem. You can read more about the problem here. Until then let me thank the internet community and people and forums that helped me find this out. [...]
September 9th, 2009 22:15
Thank you!!! I have been sitting on this problem the entire day trying to calibrate the monitor – with different programs – until I realized it was the windows photo gallery that was at fault – fixed my dell SP2309W. Again thank you!
September 8th, 2009 21:46
Thanks so much. The problem was drving me nut. Worked for my Dell monitor
September 7th, 2009 22:58
omg, finally the prob is gone, thank you !!!
September 4th, 2009 12:15
sRGB IEC61966-2.1 download is gone. When you go to the other download link at the bottom of the page, the above file is no long included in the download…. HELP
August 26th, 2009 02:02
Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!
I had this problem for a very long time and finally got it solved today.
So Happy~~~
August 23rd, 2009 21:55
Thanks for this. Had a strange yellow tint in Photoshop & when viewing photos in WPG. Couldn’t work it out until I stumbled upon this here.
Thanks again!!
August 15th, 2009 10:02
Thankyou for helping me fix this curious problem =)
August 13th, 2009 21:22
Thanks a lot, it worked for me!
I prefer the second solution because I have an automatic windows update.
July 21st, 2009 17:06
Wow, this fix rocks, I couldn’t for the life of me figure out why it had that nasty yellow background and it was showing through screwing my white balance adjustments all up. I have a Samsung 225BW, Photoshop refuses it’s color profile, now I see why.
July 7th, 2009 23:22
Thanks a bunch!!
Worked like a charm.
July 4th, 2009 11:21
My monitor displayed my photos in photo gallery with a sort of greenish tint as well as a ‘video film’ dusty sort of effect. But it disappears when playing it on slideshow.This problem arises only in Windows photo gallery and the live one. After a lot of searches this solution helped me. Everythings fine in a jiffy.
Thanks a lot.
June 25th, 2009 21:14
thanks so much for this,
i have problem with my LG LCD, and i confused with this,
but it fix it, thanks
June 20th, 2009 01:33
Perfect. Thanks so much for posting this. I didn’t believe this could be a monitor specific problem – so I dragged the window over to the non-Samsung extended desktop display and the color was fine. Great help. Thanks Again.