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Windows 10 Photo Viewer Hue shifting blue

krickerdkrickerd Posts: 222
edited May 2016 in The Commons

I just noticed that images with predominately blue in them are being hue shifted more red when opened in Windows 10 Photo Viewer.  To verifiy this, I solid filled a layer R:0 G:0 B:255 and exported as .PNG.  When opened in W10PV, it is clearly a gradient shade of purple dependent on where I drag the image.  No it's clearly NOT my monitors, it's DEFINITELY the frickin' software.  Back in Gimp or in Paint, the image is clearly blue.  G:255 doesn't seem to do this so far as I can tell.  Obviously absolutely no way to share this with you unless you want to drop on by my place.

Anyone else ever have this problem?  Yeah, this is a serious WTF gives situation.  I don't have a clue where to begin to fix this one.

Update:  It's not just W10PV, Facebook seems to red shift an image as well.  Why do multiple programs (Vue, Gimp, Photos, Paint, etc) give accurate color representation but then some applications are red shifting and saturating?  WTH is going on?

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  • AlienRendersAlienRenders Posts: 794

    It's probably colour management. In Windows 10, it will assign a default colour profile to an image that doesn't have one. Usually sRGB, but this won't skew colours. Looks like it may be assigning a different profile. Then there is a profile for your monitor. The conversion from the default colour profile to your monitor's profile can alter the colours. GIMP will not alter colours in this way because it usually defaults to sRGB which should be close to what you want anyhow.

    You can try exporting to PNG, but set sRGB as the colour profile. It shouldn't change colours anymore no matter what app you load it in. If it still changes the colours, then you might need to calibrate your monitor.

     

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited May 2016

    I've just got a new Windows 10 PC after years of being a Mac user. I noticed that Photo Viewer tended to blur my images slightly so I went back to my old faithful (for Windows) Faststone Image Viewer. Much better.

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  • krickerdkrickerd Posts: 222
    AlienRenders said:

    It's probably colour management. In Windows 10, it will assign a default colour profile to an image that doesn't have one. Usually sRGB, but this won't skew colours. Looks like it may be assigning a different profile. Then there is a profile for your monitor. The conversion from the default colour profile to your monitor's profile can alter the colours. GIMP will not alter colours in this way because it usually defaults to sRGB which should be close to what you want anyhow.

    You can try exporting to PNG, but set sRGB as the colour profile. It shouldn't change colours anymore no matter what app you load it in. If it still changes the colours, then you might need to calibrate your monitor.

    I calibrated my monitors, though I didn't need to adjust any settings.  I don't know what you mean by setting sRGB on PNG export.  There is no option for this.  See screenshot. 

     

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