Faded muddy colors

[smiledog]

Hi, guyz. Using PSP 9 on Windows 7

Here's my problem. When people upload pics to my website or when they email them to me, I open them (in Internet Explorer) and they are fine. I then save them and open them in PSP 9 to work on. Problem is, for the past month or so, when I open the images in PSP 9, they are dark, muddy, very flat, and lacking in vibrancy. They are very different from what I see in IE.

When I open them in Corel X3 or in Photoshop, they are just fine, so it must be something in PSP9. PSP 9 is my workhorse, so I would really like to solve this problem.

Could I have unwittingly changed some setting in PSP 9? Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this is happening?

Thanks in advance for any advise.

Barry

[dwalby2]

Sounds like you may have set your color space to AdobeRGB, or something else other than sRGB.

try file/color management to set it back to sRGB.

[teknisyan]

Please keep in mind that PSP 9 is not compatible with Windows 7 that can be a reason why the image is not properly displayed using the program and when using Corel X3 (Is this PSP X3?) the images are opened properly. You can visit http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ ... 4516325170, to know which version of the Corel Software is compatible with Windows 7.

There is a workaround for you to make old program works on Windows 7, however we cannot assure you this is a 100% fool proof. You can use the Windows 7 Program Compatibility and the Windows XP Mode with Virtual PC, which are both from Microsoft.

You can follow the steps for Windows 7 Program Compatibility from this link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... of-Windows

You can download and install the Windows XP Mode with Virtual PC from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtua ... nload.aspx.

You also want to consider upgrading your Corel software, since the latest version of VideoStudio is full compatible with Windows 7, you can download the 30 day full working trial at http://www.corel.com/trials.