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Russell Jones 
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:38
Italian to English
opolt wrote:
The first thing to establish would be your OS -- my guess would be that Windows 7 is the culprit :-], because it has colour (mis)management.
Well yes, I use Windows 7
Checked 32 bit color and I'm I'm on it already - no change!
[Edited at 2011-11-23 15:37 GMT]
[Edited at 2011-11-23 15:37 GMT]
| | | | opolt
Germany
Local time: 23:38
English to German
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Samuel Murray wrote:
I'm using an external monitor and it is pink on that monitor. However, when I move the browser over to the laptop's own monitor, the pink is gone. So I tried to think what did I change between today and some days ago. What programs did I install. What programs did I understall. What settings did I fiddle with. Etc.
And now, the pink is gone, because I set the monitor back from 16 bit to 32 bit colour.
[Edited at 2011-11-23 12:37 GMT]
Yep, lower colour depth makes the grey shades "untrue" in some cases.
Glad you solved it -- though it really puzzles me how that can carry across systems in a screenshot.
(Could you tell us which OS [version] you are using, Samuel -- just so we know)?
[Edited at 2011-11-23 16:58 GMT]
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:38
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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TOPIC STARTER | @Opolt and Jabber | Nov 23, 2011 |
opolt wrote: Samuel Murray wrote:
And now, the pink is gone, because I set the monitor back from 16 bit to 32 bit colour. Glad you solved it -- though it really puzzles me how that can carry across systems in a screenshot.
It should be no surprise that it would carry across systems in a screenshot. A screenshot is a shot of what is displayed, and not of what the underlying image actually is.
To use an extreme example: If you set your screen to 1-bit colour (i.e. monochrome), and take a screenshot of a picture on that screen (even if the picture is a 24-bit colour picture), the screenshot will be black-and-white, even when you then view the screenshot on a colour monitor. Now that my monitor is set to 32-bit colour, the screenshot I took still looks pink to me.
The JPG I posted uses 24-bit colour, which would have explained a colour shift if the screenshot was taken on a 32-bit monitor, but a 24-bit JPG would render a 16-bit screenshot flawlessly.
I can't explain why some people could not see the pink in the screenshot -- they should have been able to see it, unless their monitors render the pink incorrectly.
Could you tell us which OS [version] you are using, Samuel -- just so we know?
I'm using Atar^H^H^H^HWindows XP Pro SP2. My external monitor is a computer monitor (it's an iiyama ProLite B22209HDS). The monitor controller is ATI Catalyst.
Jabberwock wrote:
You can open the screenshot in any image editor and use a color picker tool. I did and for the background it is red: 248, green: 247 and blue: 242.
The colour picker might not be accurate. Remember, you're picking a colour on a 32-bit monitor (presumably) of a 24-bit JPG. Also, JPGs aren't bitmaps, so the uniform-looking colour you see there is not really uniform -- you're likely to get different values if you use the colour picker on various closely adjecent spots.
[Edited at 2011-11-23 18:12 GMT]
| | | | Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 23:38
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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TOPIC STARTER | The pink frame | Nov 23, 2011 |
Tom in London wrote:
In that screen shot only the frames of your glasses are pink. Nothing else. They make you look very trendy and creative. You should go to Milan and walk around for a while.
Jenny Forbes wrote:
Yes, Samuel's specs look pink in the screenshot he attached, but nothing else. Very stylish - keep them that way, Samuel.
Christian Ki wrote:
Sorry sir, I've noticed you wearing a pink glasses. LOL.
Here is the story of my pink glasses. The frame that I had before this pink one was a so-called John Lennon frame (that's what it was called in South Africa, though I'm told that it is called a Harry Potter frame in the new generation). On my first trip to the Netherlands, the frame broke irrepairably while I was in some one-horse town over a long weekend. Five minutes before closing time, I asked the local optician for a frame small enough to take the old glasses without me having to wait more than day for it, and this pink frame was the only one he had that fit both my face and my old glasses. It took me months to get used to the reddish haze at the edges of my vision. In the Netherlands, most people compliment me on the trendiness of the frame. In South African, most people think I'm a poof. How's that for cultural differences.
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