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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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-18T16:47:48+00:00

    I hope this can help all of you. In the end, I don't know if this was an MS Windows problem or old hardware, but this is how I fixed it:

    1. Windows key/ Start
    2. Color Management
    3. Devices tab (the first tab)

    Check if you have any profiles associated with your device. I had my monitor profile there and that was the problem. It was overwriting the default color profiles.

    How to fix it:

    1. All profiles tab (the second tab)
    2. scroll down to the ICC Profiles section (the last section)
    3. check the ICC profiles. You probably can see 3 of them (sRGB IEC 61966-2.1; Agfa : Swop Standard; and your monitor profile)
    4. don't touch the first 2, but remove the other (select profile and Remove button)
    5. close the window and open a photo
    6. if it didn't work restart your device and check again (hopefully it works)

    That's all!

    PS I had 2 friends over Discord presenting their Color Management profiles and spoted that they haven't had any profiles associated with their devices.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T07:07:04+00:00

    THANK YOU SO SO MUCH

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