Change background color on windows photo viewer windows 10

#Change background color on windows photo viewer windows 10 windows 10#
#Change background color on windows photo viewer windows 10 free#

are sufficient for their needs but I'm really surprised that photographers who calibrate and profile their displays keep saying that those viewers are properly colour-managed - they are not. It becomes 'oversaturatedly' obvious that FastStone does not make use of the monitor profile when showing you the preview of your image and that's a basic colour-management mistake.ДЇor non-photographers it doesn't matter and FastStone / IrfanView / XnView, etc. Wide-gamut monitors expose all the colour management misunderstandings very well. Don't believe me? Just use FastStone on a calibrated and profiled system with a wide-gamut monitor. It looks like FastStone is a fully colour-managed program because of this setting but in reality it doesn't work as it should. If you turn on the color management using the Settings>Settings>CMS>Enable Color Management System command then most images that have an embedded color profile will display correctly.

#Change background color on windows photo viewer windows 10 free#

See also this thread on another forum and also this one, where even such gurus as Schewe have to ask questions about those cryptic Windows settings.ДЇastStone is a very good FREE image viewer and basic image editor program. Incidentally, the WCS viewing conditions setting was a mystery to me and for a long time I set it to ICC, until I noticed that this was appropriate if my calibration and profiling were for the D50 white point, whereas in my case it is D65, so the appropriate setting is the sRGB one! It's very difficult to get any info on the web when it comes to what those settings really mean in Windows: I don't think they apply when you use properly colour-managed applications (raw converters, PS, FastPicture Viewer, etc.), yet setting them correctly would be ideal. You won't see that on a regular monitor, though.ДЄnother thing I noticed in your Windows CM settings: in the Advanced tab the setting for your Device Profile is sRGB, whereas *I think* that to be on the safe side you should also choose here your monitor profile (the one that you get after doing the hardware profiling of your monitor). This becomes really apparent if you happen to have a wide gamut monitor: the non-colour-managed sections of the Windows system are really a pain to get used to with all the oversaturation of all the metro apps, most video players, etc. I changed default to use Windows Photo Viewer and jpg renders fine. Seems as though on Windows 8/10 - The Photos app (default) is not colour managed, Windows Photo Viewer is. It's a profile from the spyder 2 hardware calibration So what the heck is going on? Why do pictures look like ass in Windows Photo Viewer? Is it not rendering the jpgs properly? Notice how there is no colour shift it looks normal - you can compare to the lightroom screenshot: Next here is the same windows jpg export as a dropbox direct link Lightroom left, jpg export right in windows photo viewer: As an example, here is a screenshot I've taken with the snipping tool

I then view the e3xported jpg in the standard Windows Image Viewer and they look totally different. I then export as jpg to sRGB (as they are going to be used by clients on the web/social media etc).

Now in lightroom, I see a certain colour and I edit to that. The colour profile has been applied to the video card properties. The 30 inch monitor has been colour calibrated using a spyder display.

#Change background color on windows photo viewer windows 10 windows 10#

I am running Windows 10 and a Dell 30 inch monitor.