Pink tint on resized image and PDF since upgrade to Lion

I advise the same thing he got: backup, wipe, re-install.

But I would add that you NOT import all of your data at once. Just user ID and files to start. Make sure everything is OK, THEN import your applications. Because as the last poster on that thread noted: That looks like "colorize 1x artwork" from Quartz Debug, do you have developer tools installed?

Or some other sneaky piece of softtware that you have forgotten about and is not really compatible. So by not migrating all your applications you can rule them out as a source if the problem goes away. If it still there, wipe and start over again, this time only migrating your user ID. Not even your data.

Actually, there are a few things you can selectively NOT migrate until you figure out which group contains whatever is causing this.

As a programmer that has done lots of advanced stuff in OSX I have to point out to you that for "us" upgrading software and especially the OS is NOT a simple task like it is for end-users.

All of the upgrade software is designed around the assumption your an end-user, that does not have any advanced utilities or OS X hooking "helpers" or debuggers or compilers or tools.

For every OS upgrade since OSX first came out, I have tried the upgrade path. And each and every time that has failed, sometimes the problems are subtle - like your pink hightlights. But after a few weeks I give up and do:

- Fresh backup (TM's plus I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a spare external drive into a bootable image of my computer - just in case)

- Re-partition hard disk

- Virgin intstall of new OSX.

- I install with a dummy user "admin"

- Do all the OS updates

- Then use Migration Assistant to recover my user ID and everything else.

If I detect the problem still exists, erase and try again, this time I drop migrtion of something to see if the problem is sitll there. After I figure out what module is "tainted" I import everything else and manually install what I'm missing that was part of the tainted module.

Last two upgrades, this took 8 hours and 12 hours. I usually do it on a weekend so it does not interfere with work.

As we "speak" I am downloading Mountain Lion to try the upgrade... Who knows, maybe it will work this time?

I have my twin backups ready to go just in case....

Have you opened the Console program and READ through the boot messages? You might get lucky and spot a boot up start message for whatever is causing this? Google the name of anyhthing you don recognize to find out what it is.

As soon as you see left over bits of software you thought were gone, or strange errors, you know its time for a clean install! You have no idea what is still lurking that is not posting to console.

I'm on my 3rd attempt to install 10.8. As usual, something does not like the new version. This time I'm just going to try and migrate my user IDs and data.

Hi Folks,

i had the same problem. Some images had a pink color overlay in some zoom levels, f.e. in Word, Keynote and Firefox. After a while of thinking about this problem i saw thats not because of mountain lion but because of the "Highlight non-retina images" option of the tool "Mountain Tweaks". If this option is switched on some pictures in several applications are pink colored at some zoom levels. So to fix this problem, just turn this option off.

Best Regards

Christian

How to fix:

1. Install the application "Mountain Tweaks" for free here: http://tweaksapp.com/app/mountain-tweaks/

2. Run the program

3. Navigate to Mountain Lion Tweaks > Highlight Non-Retina Images

4. Select "No"

5. Restart all applications affected

I've been having this problem for about a year and this fixed it.

Andrew Hudson

Late 2009 21.5" iMac OS X 10.9.3