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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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.