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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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.