Photo Appears yellowish in Windows Photo gallery in Vista

August 1st, 2008 |Ajay M | 1,734 views | Windows Vista | Comments (8)

The Photo gallery in Vista is a free utility shipped with Windows Vista that helps to view and edit photo stored in your hard drive. This has been replaced by Windows Picture and fax Viewer in Windows XP albeit with lots of added functionalities. This is the default program in Windows Vista to be associated with many image file type like jpg, jpeg, png, tiff etc. On one fine day you bought a new LCD monitor and realized that the photos you view in photo gallery appear with a yellow tint in the background.

Don’t panic as it is not such a grave issue and there is an easy workaround to get rid off this. This issue is generally caused due to an update of monitor driver that changes the color profile in color management settings. The Photo Gallery program uses this incorrect color profile while showing the picture and we see the end result as yellowish tint while viewing the pictures.

The following steps will fix the issue in no time.

1. Right click on a blank area on desktop and select personalize.

2. Click on display settings.

3. Click on Advanced settings and then on Color management tab.

4. Again click on Color management button.

5. Select the option “use my settings for this device“.

6. Check in the list of profile to find any ICC or WCS color profiles.

7. If you find any of them, select and click on remove.

8. Click on Close OK and Ok.

Now restart the PC and try viewing the pciture in Photo gallery again.

Let me know in comments section if this fix worked for you.

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1. Pingback by Photo Appears yellowish in Windows Photo gallery in Vista on 1 August 2008:

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   Comment by genuwine4532 on 1 August 2008:

   I really like the way you give the steps, one by one it is very helpful, thanks!
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   Comment by Polina on 11 August 2008:

   Thank you very much for the tip. We’ve been recently looking photo albums on my friend’s computer with Vista installed and photos looked strange, not the way they looked on my PC. Now I know the reason for it:) Thanks again!
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   Comment by club on 15 August 2008:

   Thanks for the step by step guide! I’ve been pulling my hair trying to figure out how to fix that!
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   Comment by Francisca on 28 August 2008:

   Nice post! These many days when ever I come across this problem,I used to think a lot and also feel bad.As of now I came to know the reason why all that had happened.Thanks for this article as it has helped me a lot.
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   Comment by dashdot on 28 August 2008:

   this did help!; checking the profiles is something vital i do not know why i did not think of checking that….
   however with viewing huge photo’s i get greyish blocks. First time thought something went wrong with the memorycard but it is just the Vista preview….
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   Comment by PC enclosures on 9 October 2008:

   Thanks, your tip sorted my yellow images out, without them, I would have had to leave them off my site.

   Fab work!

   Tony
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   Comment by Mike X. on 22 October 2008:

   Thanks so much for the tip. I noticed this issue when I got my new lenovo a few months ago. I figured it was just a computer issue and not my pictures so I didn’t really worry about it.

   But now I know the fix and it was so easy. I absolutely love Vista’s picture editing properties.

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