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.
June 16th, 2009 15:57
[...] of results … I found many such cases for Samsung calibaration software and Vista x64. but, this post solved my [...]
June 14th, 2009 05:08
Thanks Man!!! It worked
June 9th, 2009 10:54
wow, thought my monitor went bad. thanks for your post and help. glad I found your post.
June 9th, 2009 01:58
Working for me. Problem resolved. Thanks for the tip. Saludos.
June 3rd, 2009 12:53
it seems like the problem is more or less a samsung LCD as i have a Samsung Syncmaster 931BF and every single post is claiming a samsung LCD monitor it would maybe help if someone could get a hold of samsung and tell them about this if they don’t already know.
June 1st, 2009 05:16
Thanks! you solved my problem i almost suicide!
May 27th, 2009 03:44
Thanks! Initially I thought it was an issue with the Win7 beta but when it was not fixed in RC and noone else had it I got suspicious. I do have a Samsung monitor..
May 25th, 2009 10:15
THANK YOU so much, i noticed the issue like 2 weeks ago and happened exactly as You said with MS update in my flat panel Samsung SyncMaster 732Nplus, now is fine!!
u rock!!!
May 20th, 2009 00:20
I’ve got this problem within Windows Live Photo Gallery on XP and a Samsumg 245B 24″ TFT monitor. Thanks for the fix.
May 16th, 2009 11:24
Fixed for me too! LG Monitor. Thank you!
May 11th, 2009 20:53
I had this problem in Windows 7 RC and this fix worked like a charm! Thanks! Yo tenía este mismo problema con Windows 7 Release Candidate y estos consejos solucionaron todo. ¡Muchas gracias!
May 10th, 2009 13:09
It worked!!! Thanks so much!!
May 5th, 2009 04:28
What if WLG truly handles the color management incorrectly ? I calibrated my screens (laptop & desktop) and printers using adequate equipment and obtained great results when working on pictures. When I open WLG, it displays thumbnails with correct exposure, gamma, contrast, etc but when the picture is fully opened, there comes the washing machine: exposure, gamma, tint, all wrong. I do not think the LCD calibration is wrong as all my results appear to be fine, I think that WLG handles the colors very anormally (taking in account the fact that Picasa do not show the same problem for example). I’d like to have the input from photographers…
April 28th, 2009 23:58
Thanks a lot for the fix – worked a charm!
Also got rid of my “The monitor profile “Samsung – Natural Color Pro 1.0 ICM appears to be defective” problem!
Cheers
April 26th, 2009 10:46
Muchas gracias, me sirvio mucho. Un saludo
April 19th, 2009 18:43
Thanks for the info, it fixed my issue. Yes, I did update sumsung driver on windows update.
Happy it solved it!!
March 22nd, 2009 05:46
[...] into that a while back when I used Vista. This link should detail how to fix [...]
March 9th, 2009 12:34
Hi, just wanted to say ‘Thank you’ my friend!, had this problem for a long time but now you’ve fix it, feels good being able to just click the picture and be done with it, lol; so thanks again.
March 1st, 2009 03:28
thanks for the nifty info, much appreciated
February 23rd, 2009 01:20
Thanks a lot.
The problem is solved and I’m happy
February 21st, 2009 23:46
Thanks for the fix!
February 16th, 2009 03:28
thanks a lot.. this thing worked perfect.. i was looking for this fix!!
February 6th, 2009 19:57
Thanks works for me now!
February 6th, 2009 02:00
Thanks a lot for this, just set up a new samsung monitor. I couldn’t fix the the yellow tint so I googled it, thinking nobody else would have the same problem. Glad I found this page!
January 21st, 2009 04:10
THANKS so much for this. Damn MS updates causing problems. Your advice here sorted me out straight away. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out the problem.
January 12th, 2009 10:20
Thanks, good writeup…
January 6th, 2009 02:15
Thanks, I know I dealt with this problem in the past and it took me forever to find the solution. Your post helped me take care of the problem in under 2 minutes.
December 21st, 2008 22:20
big thx
December 14th, 2008 23:21
Thank you so much! You saved me!
December 11th, 2008 10:52
This works nicely in resolving the color matching on a Samsung SyncMaster 245BW running on Vista Business Edition by ATI x1900xtx 512mb.
* Don’t need system restart. Just restart Windows Photo Gallery; as mentioned in a previous post.
December 8th, 2008 22:02
Thank you – this worked nicely in resolving the colour matching on a Samsung SyncMaster 204BW running on Vista Business Edition.
Note: it did not need a restart to take effect, just restart Windows Photo Gallery as mentioend in a previous post.
Chris
December 5th, 2008 14:21
Thank you so much
Fixed problem in LG s730SH CRT monitor.
November 27th, 2008 15:43
[...] Strange colour issue with Photoshop Elements 6 I had this problem and followed this guide HERE to fix the problem. Curly __________________ Please read the Forum Rules, When posting use the [...]
November 16th, 2008 23:39
Great, thanks! Had this problem with my Samsung T220 monitor, and noticed that a B/W pic I just had worked with in Photoshop came out in almost sepia when viewing it in the Photo Gallery. Setting the right profile fixed it, thanks!
October 27th, 2008 21:18
This fixed the same problem on a Philips 190V LCD screen. BTW. you don’t need to reboot, just restarting the Preview program is enough.
October 22nd, 2008 11:18
Perfect!! Thanks! Worked great with a Dell monitor in case anyone is skeptical. (Unless they’re manufactured by Samsung??)
October 18th, 2008 14:12
I don’t want to reboot my precious computer. D: Years and years of hard work, sweat and blood gone down the drain if I DID reboot it.. any other solution?
October 14th, 2008 20:09
Thanks! This solved the yellow tint problem on windows photo gallery.
October 5th, 2008 14:53
Hi.. thanks it worked on Samsung 245BW monitor.. now i see right color
September 16th, 2008 16:42
Many thanks!!!!!!
When I opened pictures in photofilter or see them in a preview they were fine, but all wrong colours inside photoshop and window gallery. Changed the colour profile and its all sorted now. Many thanks again!!!!!!
August 29th, 2008 04:15
I’ve just put up with this for a few months and finally decided to look into it. Thanks for this info. The one thing I’d add is that you have to do it for all your monitors. I did it for the first one in the list and thought it wasn’t working…
August 19th, 2008 06:13
Thank you so much.. the dam thing was gone !
August 11th, 2008 08:01
Thank you SOOOOO much! This has been driving us nuts for months!!
August 6th, 2008 02:17
Thanks! Removing the ICC entry did the trick for me. It was so annoying as it was happening only on my second monitor.
July 16th, 2008 05:28
[...] The solution can be found here: Windows Vista Photo Gallery Yellow Tint Background Problem [...]
July 15th, 2008 00:56
[...] If the problems are still not resolved, you may try to remove all the color profiles and click the Add button to install a Vista-bundled color profile sRGB IEC61966-2.1, as suggested by MDL. [...]
July 5th, 2008 00:09
Built a new PC with vista, couldn’t understand why pictures had a pink border and yellow tint. Totally fixed now
Thank you
June 30th, 2008 02:24
thank you so much. i love vista. but i have this prob, which is very annoying. thank you once again. i can very well go back to vista
June 1st, 2008 23:47
Wow. I hated Vista so much, and this one pissed me off so bad, that I installed XP on my old box (which took me WAY longer than it should have due to driver issues). Anyway, I just got a new PC, hooked it up and Vista did the same thing! I always thought it was some stupid bug in the NVIDIA drivers on my old box, but when I saw the problem again I knew something else was up.
Then I found this post. THANKS!!!! Maybe this time I can hack up Vista to something slightly usable, so I will not have to install XP on my new Dell XPS 730 H2C box
May 30th, 2008 23:19
Like everyone else – I was totally annoyed with this, but I never would have thought it was a Samsung issue. Totally strange… I’ve actually avoided WPG for a long time and just use Irfanview. Thanks!
May 25th, 2008 06:33
[...] strange yellow tint – especially in Windows Live Photo Gallery. This turned out to be the solution: Windows Vista Photo Gallery Yellow Tint Background Problem » My Digital Life The symptom is likely to occur after update of incompatible monitor driver, especially on Samsung [...]
May 13th, 2008 23:27
Great! Thanks!
Pair of Samsung 225BWs, now running beautifully 
Didn’t even need to reboot 
April 23rd, 2008 02:00
seriously i was gettin crazy bcoz of this problem since so long… thanks a ton man.. thanks
April 18th, 2008 08:18
Thank you so very much! This issue has been driving me crazy for months. I had given up on it, but recent was so irritated by it that I searched again and found this post. You rock!
March 12th, 2008 08:30
i was starting to think that my Nikon D50 needed to go in for repairs.. lol, everything looked like the white balance was off.
thanks for taking the time to publish this information. And umm.. i have a Dell monitor and this happened to me after upgrading my Vista from Business to Ultimate. Regardless, i’m a happy camper!
Will in NOLA!
February 29th, 2008 05:22
I must just say that thanks. I was really wondering what caused this as all was working fine for few months. I guess some stupid auto update installed the Samsung profile! Damn you Microsoft
February 26th, 2008 05:00
[...] Being source of trouble and grief. But then, after some hours of restless research I found this link. It really is a combination of Vista and the newest drivers for my Samsung Monitor. I went to the [...]
February 25th, 2008 15:09
w00t! finally a solution
February 24th, 2008 09:50
Thank you so much! The yellow tint was really starting to bother me. This worked like a charm.
February 23rd, 2008 12:01
Yessss!!! Awesome… I’ve been trying to get the colors right in Photoshop and the Vista gallery and got stuck. Googled for my problem and presto… I found this gorgeous piece of info. Thanks a lot for this priceless advice!!! It worked like a charm.
Greetings from Holland.
Keywords: Samsung Syncmaster 2032bw red tint
February 19th, 2008 05:04
Thanks… this was really helpful!!
Glad I found this page!
February 16th, 2008 23:05
Thanks! Had the same thing over here with the samsung LCD 22″monitor. Fantastic, worked like a charm!!
Greetzz from Holland.
February 13th, 2008 03:47
Can someone post a link to this ICC profile Adobe’s site sucks and I can’t find anywhere yet and I am assuming others have had to do all this same work…sRGB IEC61966-2.1
February 6th, 2008 00:17
[...] Fonte: My Digital Life. [...]
February 4th, 2008 05:56
Nice, but I’m not quite there yet as only one of my screens got good. And yes, thye problem screen is a Samsung 205BW
Any ide how to fix this on both my screens?
October 16th, 2007 01:14
[...] Fonte: My Digital Life. [...]
October 11th, 2007 03:48
Brilliant 2 samsung screens on 2 different computers both now fixed
October 5th, 2007 15:24
omg it worked wonderfully! haha i hav a samsung 932B plus and it disappoints to see the yellow tint.. i even hav that when i opened a new document on photoshop, the suppose-to-be-white paper appeared yellow! now it’s all fixed.. thanks!
September 22nd, 2007 00:12
Fantastic! Worked like a charm…thanks so much! Samsung 245b.
September 21st, 2007 21:05
Thanks so much I have been having trouble with this for months
acer al2216w
September 12th, 2007 13:26
Thankyou very much for this… I did wonder why it was displaying everything with a yellowish tint, and yes, I have a Samsung LCD monitor also!
August 29th, 2007 04:45
Thanks..
July 29th, 2007 00:44
Thank you so much! Was driving me crazy on my Samsung LCD.
July 26th, 2007 07:47
Muito, muito obrigado por escrever isso. Estava triste com o Vista por causa desse problema. Mas agora estou feliz. =)
Abraços
July 12th, 2007 07:56
I have had this problem since buying a Samsung LCD monitor and, despite asking on various forums, no one has been able to help – until now
The advice above works perfectly; just use sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and everything is fine.
Thanks very, very much for this.