How come start up screen colors look washed out.

Hi,
I tried to change the background for the login startup screen on my iMac.  I noticed that the colors from my image appears faded. 
When I look at the image in other origram(ie. preview) the colors are what they should be.
So what is OS X(Lion) doing to cause the colrs to look this  way?  And is there a way to fix it?
Thanks and I look forward to your reply.
...Bruce

I had this problem with my R705 too.  It has to do with one of the bloatware that is already installed from the factory.  The reason that I say this is because after I put in a ssd and did a clean install without any of the bloatware, I don't get the washed out screen effect anymore.  Now which one of the bloatware is responsible for this, i couldn't tell you.

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