Yellow fade on photos

You haven't posted the image, so I can't test it.

But although you perhaps don't realise, your computer's screen uses a very different system to process color than your printer uses. An image is processed on screen using the RGB system, which is very tolerant in its functions, displaying a very wide range of colors - about 16 million.

Your computer's printer uses a very limited color system known as CMYK, which can only handle a very few colors - about 128 in practice. Inkjet printing has severe limitations.

It is perfectly possible for an image to look natural on the screen, but if it includes colors that your printer can't output, the printed image can look very different. Loss of some of the essential colours can leave you with very little red left, allowing the yellow to become highlighted.

You'll realise of course that yellow is an artificial color, that is built by combining green and blue in certain combinations, so any loss of the red present in the RGB [Red-Green-Blue] can result in a severe predomination by the yellow component, since only the GB - the green and blue - is left.

Red often is lost in the conversion from RGB to CMYK, because CMKY contains no actual red, the nearest color being magenta -- many shades of red in nature simply can't be reproduced by CMYK printing.

There may be nothing you can do. You can't fix the natural inability of your printer to print 16 million colours, because it can only print 128 colors, because inkjet printing is not high quality printing.

Sometimes it is necessary to bow to the inevitable and take your photos into town to have them professionally printed by your local Kodak dealer.

Additional -

When the printer changes the mode of the image, converting it to a different Profile (typically a CMYK profile), choose "Relative Colorimetric" as the rendering intent (unless it makes an extremely important color in the image change terribly).

Choosing this can make distinctly different colors (e.g. different shades of red) print as a single color. But usually only one or two really strong colors will shift, so the changes often won't be noticeable overall.

Alternative methods can make the entire image shift color, usually yellower and weaker. If that happens, it is often best to go back to the original image and try again, this time making sure to specify "Relative Colorimetric" if offered it among a choice of options.

This is not the only reason that an image can end up too yellow. But it is a common one, so worth watching out for -- and worth avoiding if you can.

I'm glad you've fixed the problem, and successfully printed the photo with the colors you expected.

You can't do anything about the fact that some imaging software will only output the image in CMYK, which can give very un-natural results.

The reason why I can't answer your question is that you haven't really investigated this problem.  But if you do, which means giving me the following information, I will do my best to give you a proper answer -

1. What Operating System are you running?
2. Which version of Windows Live Essentials do you use? Which color profile did you use in Photo Gallery, when unsuccessfully printing the photo in question and finding it too yellow?
3. Do you understand how to change the output color profile in the program? Are you able to re-configure the program yourself to use an RGB output profile?
4. Which version of Microsoft Paint are you using? Which color profiles does the program support? Which color profile did you use when successfully printing the photo in question?
5. Which image mode is the photo encoded with? CMYK? RGB? LAB? Or multichannel?
6. Which make and model of color printer are you using? Is it an inkjet model? Does it have any configuration settings? Can it be adjusted in software by the user? Does it have user configurable color profile settings, i.e. can you manually switch between CMYK and RGB printing?

I may need more details once I have this basic information. I do have Windows Live Essentials myself, so I can investigate your problem to some extent, as I do use the Photo Gallery part of the software myself.

Sorry if this sounds involved. If you want to pursue this to a solution, the only way is to investigate whether my original thoughts were correct, that you were accidentally printing an RGB image using a CMYK output setting on the printer.

Obviously, the correct thing to do is to ensure that the photo is encoded as RGB, that the Windows Live Photo Gallery program is set to use RGB, and that the printer is configured to print a color RGB image.

Any of those things might present problems in the real world, resulting in a too yellow photo.

The reasonn why i dont put photo on this page is cause the photo is ffom my daughter. So rather keep it private. Problem is tht printed  in paint this photo is the colours which are shown om screen. But if use the default program itsnt . So it must be software based bug. Als strangely enough when printing it in word on normal paper the photo is like it should be , if the option photonprinting is checked in word ans photopaper is used , the photo will be yellow