IMac 27, Screen is garish, can't seem to change this...

Hi, I have an iMac 27 (mid 2011), on my wife's profile the screen is continually quite garish compared to a normal profile. I have re-calibrated and selected other settings such as Cinema Display, etc but the garishness persists whichever setting. I have also copied my screen profile over but again the garish setting persists. It may help to know that from the startup/login page the profile is normal until I select my wife's logo to login at which point the screen immediately brightens. This was present in an earlier iMac before we ported over to this newer iMac, is this something that can be reset or do I need to launch a new profile/login and copy content over ?
All help greatly appreciated.

Apologies I just found the problem thanks to another post, seems someone had increased the "Enable Contrast" feature under Accessibility/Displays. Back to normal and no more garish screen, thanks everyone.

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