Microsoft Photo Viewer automatically applies yellow tint to photos

Anonymous
2021-07-31T04:07:34+00:00

Microsoft Photo Viewer applies a yellow filter to all images when I try to view them, if I'm skipping between photos quickly there's a short glimpse of the normal photo before the filter is applied.

This doesn't permennantly change the images however it makes it hard to see the quality of the photos. Unlike any previous issues I can find online it's only the photo that's yellowish not the background.

I've tried to fix this by removing the colour profiles and restarting my pc however this didn't help.

I'm currently using windows 10

Thanks in advance,

Harvey

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Windows update

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Anonymous
2021-08-23T21:05:35+00:00

Ok

now i solved it

I solved following this guide:

  1. go to Colour Management (search in the search folder)
  2. select the monitor you are looking the photo into (IMPORTANT! i did it once and did'nt worked because i was selecting the wrong monitor)
  3. check Use My Profile
  4. remove the current color profile
  5. add a new profile and select sRGB IEC61966-2.1 under ICC Profiles
  6. close and reboot

If you don't whant to remove the colour profile, you can try to add a new one and select it as a default profile.

Hope this help

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-05-23T20:26:09+00:00

    It was already set to that profile as the system default so this solution did not work. BTW the same tint appears on all 3 of my monitors. It didn't happen in Windows 10, but appears since the upgrade. Something is whacked-out in Windows 11 and no one seems to know for sure how to resolve it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T06:18:03+00:00

    I had already published the solution to this problem, and it worked for many participants, jut make a search and you will find it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T12:57:16+00:00

    I'm uncertain if you actually read my post @Yoram as I stated that I tried the solutions posted, and your suggestion was already there by default, and the issues is unresolved. Other applications display the photos without the tint. Editing in the Photos app does not display the tint. If I move the app display between each of my three monitors, they all show the tint. I restate my comment that the issue remains unresolved.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T13:59:17+00:00

    Did you go as I guided?

    1. go to Colour Management (search in the search folder)
    2. select the monitor you are looking the photo into (IMPORTANT! i did it once and did'nt worked because i was selecting the wrong monitor)
    3. check Use My Profile
    4. remove or leave the current color profile
    5. add a new profile and select sRGB IEC61966-2.1 under ICC Profiles and choose it , if you didn't remove the default one.
    6. close and reboot

    My original reply was on Yoram Tabori

    Replied on November 10, 2022

    read all other users replies to my post, all of them wrote " It worked for me , thank you"

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