Wendy7 wrote:
Barbara, I am noticing the green colours in your pictures? They are
very deep in shade. Now I have a new monitor, new computer with
Vista O/S. Different Video card & I am wondering if it is my equipment &
maybe my monitor needs adjusting?
The Vista Photo Gallery (editing/viewing etc) stinks!!
I am not just picking on you & yours, it's just that I know the colours
of the Staghorn.
Cheers Wendy

The monitor governs what you see, not the video card or the OS. Copy an
old file onto your new computer, an image whose colours you know well.
Then adjust the monitor until it looks right to you. Note that LCD
monitors do not produce the exactly the same colours as the old CRTs,
nor do they have the same contrast range, so you may not get quite what
you want.

You can also use colour test cards/images, I'll post a couple here for
your, um, enjoyment. They are also excellent for testing your printer,
and adjusting printer colour profiles.

As for image viewing and editing - sigh. That's a big subject.

If you still have your old machine, and used a 3rd party viewer/editor,
you can transfer that program to your new machine. You will have to find
its installation file (an *.exe file or a *.zip file). Or else dig out
the CD it came on.

You can remove Photogallery, or inactivate it, but you'll have to go to
a Vista newsgroup to find out how to do it. I don't use Vista (and never
will, see PS below).

Good 3rd party software is out there. Digital cameras come with adequate
programs, some with very good ones. But you may want to explore
alternatives.

For freeware, try Irfanview, it works very well. Google on its name. If
you're willing to spend some time mastering it, GIMP is as powerful as
Paintshop or Photoshop.

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, try PMView, IMO easier to use
than Irfanview, but doesn't handle as many image file formats.

If you are willing to spend more bucks, buy Paintshop. If you are
willing to spend loadsadough, buy Photoshop.

PS: Vista is designed to enforce Digital Rights Management, which has
reportedly caused trouble for people who have older CDs and DVDs, and/or
who make their own. Vista is said to refuse to play them. Besides, it's
even more bloated than XP, which means that you need more powerful
hardware merely to equal the performance of Win2000 and XP. It also ties
MS's own applications even more tightly into the operating system, which
means that they will be difficult if not impossible to remove or
inactivate, should you decide that you prefer to use other software
instead (which is after all your right.) Any one of these reasons is
enough for me to avoid it. I'm going Linux, just haven't decided whether
I want new, really screamin' hardware, too. :-)

--

Wolf

"Don't believe everything you think." (Maxine)