# Facebook pictures tinted blue **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 18, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621 "2011-12-18T05:08:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/1 "2011-12-18T05:08:48Z")
I was looking around on facebook and two of the many accounts I visited had pictures that were basically obscured by a blue tint. I tried googleing it but had no results. Is this some kind of security setting? Its not that I cannot access them at all, I just cannot get a good look at them. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/2 "2011-12-18T15:49:47Z")
Incorrect white balance, perhaps? Digital photos taken under daylight (or flash) conditions with the white balance set to ‘Tungsten’ will exhibit a blue cast. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/3 "2011-12-18T15:51:36Z")
Are you sure you didn’t have them highlighted? It’s easy to do if you accidentally drag your mouse across them. Try clicking somewhere else on the page to see if you can deselect them. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/4 "2011-12-18T15:57:29Z")
Missed the edit. [Lazy Cat in Daylight](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DF-6N6MGMRg/Tu4MstT84gI/AAAAAAAAEns/UF0H6UrAMQA/s1600/IMG_6633+%2528Small%2529.JPG) [Lazy cat in Tungsten](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PWa3x6RJDXE/Tu4Msd8BnUI/AAAAAAAAEnk/SOw2wa45m5A/s1600/IMG_6632+%2528Small%2529.JPG) Or what **Joey P** said. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/5 "2011-12-18T16:01:49Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > Missed the edit. > > [Lazy Cat in Daylight](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DF-6N6MGMRg/Tu4MstT84gI/AAAAAAAAEns/UF0H6UrAMQA/s1600/IMG_6633+%2528Small%2529.JPG) > > [Lazy cat in Tungsten](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PWa3x6RJDXE/Tu4Msd8BnUI/AAAAAAAAEnk/SOw2wa45m5A/s1600/IMG_6632+%2528Small%2529.JPG) > > Or what **Joey P** said. [Lazy Cat ‘accidentally’ selected](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/JoeyJoeyPP/cat.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/6 "2011-12-18T16:10:21Z")
Those cats must be related. They all look very similar. ---
**Author:** ![Fourtyfold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Fourtyfold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fourtyfold)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/7 "2011-12-18T17:31:13Z")
The pictures with the blue tint wouldn’t be PNGs by any chance? Old versions of IE did that to PNGs with an alpha channel, and I’m sure there are still some similar rendering bugs about. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/8 "2011-12-18T17:32:36Z")
Isn’t lazy cat redundant? Isn’t lazy cat redundant? ---
**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/9 "2011-12-18T18:25:16Z")
It was definitely not a problem with the pictures, per se, as the thumbprint images were normal. I went back, and it was indeed that I was accidently highlighting them. Peculiar, because it happened twice last night but never before. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/10 "2011-12-20T05:45:32Z")
> [@Fourtyfold](#): > > The pictures with the blue tint wouldn’t be PNGs by any chance? > > Old versions of IE did that to PNGs with an alpha channel, and I’m sure there are still some similar rendering bugs about. All images on you post on Facebook are JPEGs–even if you are trying to upload a logo that would look better as a PNG. It’s one of those little annoyances. ---
**Author:** ![TerpBE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc8723/32.png) [@TerpBE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TerpBE)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/11 "2011-12-20T16:19:30Z")
Are you taking Viagra? ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-pictures-tinted-blue/606621/12 "2011-12-20T18:02:20Z")
It has become frustratingly easy to accidentally highlight facebook pics, noted by blue tint. Exit the pic/album… Go back to album/pic… and carefully open the pic again without indiscriminate use of your mouse.