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Heavy green tint on Macbook Pro SR LED

taylorwilsdon

taylorwilsdon

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Nov 16, 2006
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I'm at a loss here.

Picture should speak better then words - this isn't photoshopped, its the same (more or less) with all the color profiles.

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How can I fix this? Its the oddest thing - in Firefox, that Apple bar from Safari doesn't have the same green-ness.

Somebody give me ideas - I really don't want to go through the trouble of returning this.
 
thats really really weird, my Color LCD profile gives mine a nice warm look, i love it..take it to an apple store i guess, unless someone else has an idea, try resetting your PRAM i think that has something to do with the screen settings too, its worth a try
 
I'm interested in finding out more about this. I don't have time to research it now, but my gut feeling is that something is screwed up with your Quartz filters. Launch the ColorSync Utility and select "Profile First Aid", then click "Verify" to see if any problems are found in the icc profiles. You may also want to click on "Filters" and see if anything there looks strange.

Did you buy this machine used/refurb?
 
To anybody who has this problem, do you log out and log in frequently on different users or use fast user switching?
 
Zwhaler said:
To anybody who has this problem, do you log out and log in frequently on different users or use fast user switching?
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No.

And I bought it brand new but I have a sneaking suspicion apple ripped me off. The seal had been picked at when I pulled it out of the box and it didn't have that new mac smell.
 
new from the apple online store, or from a physical apple store, and it was opened?? err... go yell at them or something...
 
If there is something wrong with your LED backlight you can take all the screenshots you want but we wont be able to see it. In this case, your screenshot looks rather purple-ish on my display.
 
taylorwilsdon said:
Picture should speak better then words - this isn't photoshopped, its the same (more or less) with all the color profiles.
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That sucks.

I have a Dell that does that too. But with blues.

On the Dell, if I take a black and white photo and open it in Photoshop, it looks blueish gray. But when I export it and open it up outside of Photoshop it looks perfectly normal.

I have tried resetting Photoshop, nVidia, XP... you name it.

I think it has to do with a faulty video driver that came with the screen. Too long to get into but if it wasn't a work computer Mr. Dell himself would know my name.
 
majordude said:
On the Dell, if I take a black and white photo and open it in Photoshop, it looks blueish gray. But when I export it and open it up outside of Photoshop it looks perfectly normal.
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Photoshop is operating in a different colourspace -- make sure it's set to the correct colour profile. The reason it looks different is because it's using different colour profiles in Photoshop vs. in Windows.

To the OP: this is most likely not a hardware problem, unless it's to do with the video card, but I doubt that. It's not a screen hardware problem because you are able to screen capture the effect. That, in addition to the fact that the problem arises within some programs but not in the OS X GUI itself makes me think it's something to do with colour settings or a driver problem.
 
Strange, looks perfectly ok to me.
Maybe a photograph of the screen would be better than a screenshot...
 
carsncars said:
Photoshop is operating in a different colourspace -- make sure it's set to the correct colour profile. The reason it looks different is because it's using different colour profiles in Photoshop vs. in Windows.
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I agree with you... but the Dell doesn't! I couldn't reset it if you gave me a button with "reset" written on it. :rolleyes:

Stupid XP drivers...
 
hahaha, ignore me!

Now I've actually woken up and my eyes work properly I can see the greenness you're talking about:eek:
 
bartelby said:
Strange, looks perfectly ok to me. Maybe a photograph of the screen would be better than a screenshot...
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Uh, his screen is green and everyone else's is gray. That's why he gave you a hint by titling this thread "Heavy green tint on Macbook Pro SR LED" :p
 

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Yeah... it looks like the middle-level green/red curve is over-boosted, or the blue is under-boosted... but what's the most weird is that some elements show the effect and others don't. :confused:

In any case, if it came like that, it's not right -- no user should have to deal with a problem like that on delivery -- and a full refund should have been in order. I would try to get my 200$ back.
 
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