Photo Story 3 produces poor color

[Buddy Morel]

Photo Story 3 produces slide shows with all pictures showing a purple and
green tint. Any ideas?

 

[Yves Alarie]

Usually due to your graphic card driver.
You can check at the manufacturer's site for an update of the driver. Follow
directions carefully to install a new driver. Some will require to disable
your antivirus software and uninstall the current driver, then reboot the
computer. When you reboot, you get a generic video screen display. This can
be unnerving because it will not look like your normal display. You then go
to the folder where you downloaded the driver and double click on the file
to install the new driver.

 

[Buddy Morel]

I've already got the latest driver and my display card reproduces colors
very well on the individual pictures. However, when I create a slide show,
ALL the shots are very, very poor. The problem arises during the
processing. In fact, I've seen various examples, like on Papa John's
website, that also show up with weird coloration. It appears that PS3 just
ruins the color while processing the show.

 

[Yves]

Then I would keep checking Papa John's website to see how this problem is
resolved. Certainly the place to go.
Just curious, how much RAM memory do you have? At least 256 MB?

 

[Buddy Morel]

Yep, I've got 1.5 GB of RAM. The problem that I see is that no one else
seems to see this. It looks like it's something in my machine.

Ambrose F. "Buddy" Morel
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Guest]

what formats are the photos originally in? if for some reason they are
converted from CMYK to RGB or vice versa when creating your story the colors
may be altered. i haven't used photo story personally so I don't know if it
changes color modes, but it's worth a look.

 

[Rehan]

Yep, I've got 1.5 GB of RAM. The problem that I see is that no one else

seems to see this. It looks like it's something in my machine.

I think you need to reinstall Windows Media Player 10 and DirectX.

It seems the new codec used by PS3 is not installed properly in your system.
Can you try to use the old media player, which should be still on your
system.
C:\Program Files\WIndows Media Player\mplayer2.exe

If not then try the open source Media Player Classic
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/)

If things work correctly in one of these then we can say than Windows media
player is playing up ;-)

--
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for Windows Movie Maker

 

[Buddy Morel]

You may be correct. Though I haven't done anything to fix the problem or
download any codec, Photo Story 3 is operating fine today. I had created
three different slide shows yesterday with extremely poor coloration but
today all of them and some news ones are displaying perfectly. If it was a
codec problem, it must have been downloaded and fixed automatically. It's
great now!!!

 

[Buddy Morel]

Well, I've discovered my coloration problem. I have a Hauppauge WinTV2000
USB video device. When I have this operating to view a TV program, the
Photo Show 3 output produces horribly discolored slide show in WMP 10. If I
shut the TV off, everything is fine.