7/25/2023 0 Comments Windows photo view f11 screwed up![]() Advanced and Premium subscription versions are available for $49.99 and $99.99 per year respectively. The standard version (one-time purchase) is available for $49.99. There will be under- and oversaturation issues if you open those three photos in apps like Photos or Internet Explorer.True Image 2020 is available as a one-time purchase or subscription. There shouldn't be any under- and oversaturation issues when viewing the three photos in Windows Photo Viewer or any other colour-managed application. They will be slightly different only if: a) the photo contains colour outside the sRGB gamut, and b) your monitor goes beyond the sRGB gamut. Windows Photo Viewer should show you those three photos as nearly identical. Here's a simple test: convert the same raw photo to sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB. Just like Ps, WPV should be fine displaying ProPhoto RGB tagged photos. If it is, then it can't "favor sRGB tagged images". In your first post in this thread you confirmed that Windows Photo Viewer is colour-managed. And my understanding and testing shows favors sRGB tagged images. They have various colour profiles embedded in them (typically sRGB, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB, but also swapped channels profiles, LUT-based and matrix-based profiles, etc.). There are well-know PDI targets, photos from X-Rite, Kodak and Datacolor products, etc. Here's a screenshot of the photos I typically use: They include high quality printed photos which accompany their digital counterparts. They also serve to troubleshoot various colour management issues connected with raw converters, photo editors and photo viewers. It's a set of photos I've collected over the years which I use to test the calibration/profiling of monitors/printers/printing services I use. I'm not here to deep dive into the color models and/or whether one intends to print or not. I think I understand this subject better than you think. " And for the record, when you calibrate a monitor, the created profile will be used by either the graphic's LUT table, or the monitor's LUT table." When you calibrate a monitor, you adjust calibration curves (aka LUT curves). You should both calibrate and profile your monitor. And my understanding and testing shows it favors sRGB tagged images. Colour-managed applications like Ps or Lr need to pay attention to the monitor profiles to create a correct preview.ĭefine "reference colour management photos"? I'm not sure what that is?Īnd I gave a simplified explanation since the subject can go much deeper. LUT curves are not the same thing as LUT profiles. When you characterize (or profile) a monitor, you can create LUT or matrix-based profiles. ![]() Photos, Paint, desktop, Edge, IE, etc.) are not colour-managed (they don't pay attention to the monitor profile). It relies on Microsoft ICM, which is not infallible, but is fine in many regular cases. Windows Photo Viewer is fine with reference colour management photos I have tested it with and they include a variety of embedded profiles, both ICC and WCS.Īgain, Windows Photo Viewer gives me correct previews, comparable to a host of other colour-managed programs on my system. What that means in simple terms is it is the LUT table that controls colors, not "Windows" or apps like PS, LR. Outside the color managed environment, you're stuck with Windows default sRGB color space.Īnd for the record, when you calibrate a monitor, the created profile will be used by either the graphic's LUT table, or the monitor's LUT table. If you want to true color management, you need to stay in a color managed environment like Photoshop, Bridge, LR, or ACDsee. Thus if you're using "ProPhoto" that's the issue. Photo Viewer only use the sRGB color profile and ignores all others. On my wide gamut monitor the same sRGB photos which look good when viewed in the regular mode suddenly become oversaturated in the slideshow mode, and the ProPhoto RGB photos look desaturated. ![]() I don't know why they did it this way but when switching on the slideshow mode, WPV stops paying attention to the embedded profile. Yeah, I'm familiar with that hack which was originally posted at - Restore Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10Īnyway how does Photo Viewer become un-color managed" in slideshow mode? You can get the WPV on Win10 by using a registry hack. ![]() To be clear, Windows 10 "Photos" app is not color managed, while the old Windows 7 Photo Viewer is. Yes, Windows Photo Viewer is colour-managed except in the slideshow mode. ![]()
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