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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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
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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
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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!