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gurusan

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What's your preferred image viewer? Windows gallery does weird things....AcdSee (my previous favourite for years) gives me weird errors.
 
I don't really mind Windows' inbuilt viewer just because it's there and ready to use in an instant. It's not great but I religiously organise my folders and files.
 
Windows Gallery in Vista is excellent and super fast, it'll even display raw camera files with the correct codec, so I don't see any point in changing
 
I use Picasa which is dead easy to use and doesn't do anything strange to your folders on the drive.
 
gurusan said:
the thing is, it tints everything yellowish green
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mine did that to start with. you just need to do an adjustment to the monitor settings to rgb. Can't remember exactly how to do it but do a google for windows picture viewer yellow tint or similar and it should have the fix listed there somewhere.
 
Irfanview.
Nice and quick to use, can do slideshows, quickly hop to fullscreen/actual size. Plus being able to do some simple editing.

Its great :)
 
Baked said:
do you have a samsung monitor?, if so you need to delete the samsung colour profile.
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Im glad you mentioned that as I too am getting funny results on pics when viewing in vista, and I too now have a samsung monitor, never noticed it on my other monitors!

Will deleting the profile affect anything else? The colours are bold and beautiful for everything else :)
 
D.M said:
Im glad you mentioned that as I too am getting funny results on pics when viewing in vista, and I too now have a samsung monitor, never noticed it on my other monitors!

Will deleting the profile affect anything else? The colours are bold and beautiful for everything else :)
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nope, windows will use its default one.

edit, you might want to "hide" its update in the windows updater, or it will try to pull the driver back in every time you check for new updates.

How to..

INTRODUCTION

This article describes how to remove the association between the display and a color profile in Windows Vista and in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). You may have to remove the association between the display and a color profile if a defective color profile is installed as a display profile. The Windows Live Photo Gallery Viewer respects color profiles. Therefore, defective profiles will produce unpredictable results when you view an image with a color managed application and the computer may display images incorrectly.

Some display vendors ship defective profiles that, despite being in compliance with the International Color Consortium color profile specifications, may cause unexpected or unacceptable color adjustments. To resolve a problem with a defective profile, you can either remove the association between the display and the defective display profile or you can replace the defective profile with a correct one. If you remove the association between the display and the defective display profile, the Windows Live Photo Gallery Viewer assumes a display profile of sRGB.

Note Not all the defective profiles are syntactically invalid. Some defective profiles are fully compliant with International Color Consortium color profile specifications. However, the defective profiles may contain semantic errors. Back to the top

MORE INFORMATION

To remove the association between the display and a color profile, follow these steps: Back to the top
Windows Vista

1.Click Start
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, and then type Color Management in the Start Search box. 2.Click Color Management under Programs. 3.In the Color Management dialog box, click the Devices tab, and then click the display that is experiencing the problem. For example, click Display: Generic PnP Monitor. 4.Make sure that the Use my settings for this device check box is selected. 5.In the Profiles Associated with this Device list, remove all the profiles that are listed in the box. To remove a profile, select the profile, and then click Remove. When this process is complete, the box will be empty and all the defective profiles will have been removed. 6.Click Close.

Note The default display profile association is now removed. The Windows Live Photo Gallery’s Viewer application will no longer use the defective profile and will now assume a display profile of sRGB when photos are displayed. Back to the top
Windows XP

1.Click Start, click Run, type desk.cpl, and then click OK. 2.Click the Settings tab. 3.Click Advanced. 4.Click the Color Management tab. 5.In the Color profiles currently associated with this device list, remove all the profiles that are listed in the box. To remove a profile, select the profile, and then click Remove. When this process is complete, the box will be empty and all the defective profiles will have been removed.6.Click OK two times.

Note The default display profile association is now removed. The Windows Live Photo Gallery’s Viewer application will no longer use the defective profile and will now assume a display profile of sRGB when photos are displayed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942632
 
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