Tan mask in windows photo gallery

after a week of working fine now when i click on a .jpg there is a tan area
on the outside of the picture instead of white and the tan covers the picture
and makes it darker. if i press F11 for slide show everything shows up fine.

i dont want to reinstall please help!

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...e-b8d81aa08c53

HTH,

Dale

"g-money" <gmoney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> after a week of working fine now when i click on a .jpg there is a tan
> area
> on the outside of the picture instead of white and the tan covers the
> picture
> and makes it darker. if i press F11 for slide show everything shows up
> fine.
>
> i dont want to reinstall please help!

its not DRM dale. it happens even with the sample pictures that come with
windows vista and was working fine before.

"Dale" wrote:

> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...e-b8d81aa08c53
>
> HTH,
>
> Dale
>
> "g-money" <gmoney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CB549503-B116-49F8-942B-2EA5F73ED1D1@microsoft.com...
> > after a week of working fine now when i click on a .jpg there is a tan
> > area
> > on the outside of the picture instead of white and the tan covers the
> > picture
> > and makes it darker. if i press F11 for slide show everything shows up
> > fine.
> >
> > i dont want to reinstall please help!
>
>

I'm sorry, I should have been more specific. Read the response from
redbeaver:


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:
http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/adobergb.html
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

Thats it! thank you!