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
    2021-08-19T20:49:13+00:00

    This same thing is happening to me. And nothing worked

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-10-23T00:16:09+00:00

    This has nothing to do with display controls. It also has nothing to do with graphics settings on the card. It's a problem with the app itself.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-01-20T22:20:20+00:00

    if you bought a new laptop to edit photos on, then you should buy some software that isn't .. you know.. microsoft f8cking photos. heeeeeey Microsoft!!! ya, this stupid **** has only been an issue for 12 years. TWELVE!!!!

    https://optimwise.com/fix-windows-photo-viewer-yellow-tint-background/

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-10-10T18:14:12+00:00

    I've been through all of the same suggested resolutions. None of them were successful. My last attempt was to try to uninstall and reinstall Photos. The only way to do this is by using PowerShell since MS doesn't really want anyone to remove it easily.

    Open PowerShell (you don't need to open as administrator if it's on your privately owned PC and you already have full access).

    Copy and paste this

    get-appxpackage *Microsoft.Windows.Photos* | remove-appxpackage

    and hit the enter button.

    I did this, and then logged into the MS App Store and redownloaded/installed Photo again. Guess what? Same yellow tint.

    Since MS support apparently has no fix for this and seems oblivious to it being a problem, I uninstalled Photo again with the Powershell script. My default app automatically changed to Paint. It's not ideal but it's free and the images open up in their correct state. I hope this helps.

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