Windows Vista Image Viewer Screwing With Color

[gamerfreak]

Here is an example, probebly the best way to explain it:

Original:


As seen in Vista Image Viewer:


Its not a display issue, colors everywhere else look fine....I dont see where I can change color settings for the images viewer.

[Yellowhello]

OMG, why would you have that picture?

[screwballl]

then don't use image viewer..... thats like saying your hand hurts if you move it a certain way it doesn't normally move... then don't move it that way

[PTRMAN]

I think it must be that picture.

[Zambini]

I didn't find a fix, but I found another person on the internet with your problem
Problem with my pictures. (Windows Photo Gallery, Vista)

so that means someone else will discover a fix too :P

Ill keep lookin

[edit] This one looks like the guy actually knows what he is talking about
Windows Photo Gallery (WPG) - appalling display quality - Microsoft Windows Vista Community Forums - Vistaheads

[edit2] Here is another pic of what Gamer is experiencing
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6475/errorvt6.jpg

[edit3] OK, apparently someone found a solution:

Originally Posted by That guy on those forums^

I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!!!!



First off, there r 2 solutions i discovered...one is if u have Photoshop
installed, the other if you don't.

If you do have, in Control Panel, there's an Adobe Gamma tool. Run it by
step-by-step wizard (or by Control Panel if u know what u'r doing) and create
ur own Profile. Name it anything, i name mine Vista-1 just so its easier to
see. It will create an ICM profile immediately installed in Window's
system32-spool-color folder (given u dont change the saving location. better
yet, dont even try.). Done?
Back in Vista's control panel, open the Colour Management tool. In there
u'll see the default ICC profile, mine named Samsung - Natural Color Pro 1.0
ICM, file name SM205BW.icm since my monitor is a Samsung 205BW. Click on
Add.., and if you scroll down, u'll see ur profile; again, mine said Vista-1.
U might need to click on Browse.. if u dont see yours becoz u saved it
somewhere else...
[Now, this part i'm not sure whether u need to do it, but i did it
anyway.... Click on the Profiles button on the right bottom corner and click
on Combine My Settings with System Defaults. then...]
Click OK, and click on Vista-1 and click on Set as Default Profile. Click
Close.

Now try opening a picture in WPG

Ooops, almost forgot, for people who doesnt have Photoshop, u can google any
free ICC profile or go to:
Adobe RGB (1998) ICC profile
Download these free ICC, and install some..or..well... i tried installing
all of them anyway... Just extract them, then right click and select
Install...

Now go to Vista Control Panel, open Color Management, and click on Add...
Scroll down and all of the installed ICC should be there. Pick one and set it
default. [Again, u could click on Profiles and select Combine My Profile...
but im not sure about this.] Click Close and you're good to go.

Of course if it still shows the wrong colour just pick a different ICC and
try it. First ICC i tried is the Adobe1998 one and it seems to be working
fine... Of course im no expert and if any of u experts sees the better ICC in
there (there r like 10~15 of them in the ZIP), by all means correct me.

THat's all.

Hope that helps

[gamerfreak]

Originally Posted by screwballl

thats like saying your hand hurts if you move it a certain way it doesn't normally move... then don't move it that way

Thats like saying "I cant walk because my leg is broken, maybe I shouldn't walk anymore."

Viewing a god damn image in an image viewer is the way it normally moves.

Thanks zambini, ill try it out.

[fstroupe]

I have no problem...actually, it looks a little better than XP, which looks like crap, compared to viewing a photo in PS or online.

[Yellowhello]

Originally Posted by gamerfreak

Thats like saying "I cant walk because my leg is broken, maybe I shouldn't walk anymore."

You shouldn't if it hurts. Wait until it gets better.

[screwballl]

many of the picture viewers may read an image file properties wrong and this happens... this is why I never use the built in image viewers, typically only Photoshop or GIMP

[halutzparilla]

ouch my eyes hurts! why on heaven's name you keep those pix...