Over-exposure in screenshots and recordings with HDR in Windows 11

For anyone still looking for a solution to this issue:

1. Go to the HDR section and find this slider, (at the very bottom of the screenshot) and adjust it all the way to the left.

This will make all screen captures appear as they should, but your overall OS brightness will appear fairly dark.

2. This step is going to depend on your graphics card, so I can't give you specifics unless you have an nVidia card. Find your graphics card manufacturer settings and adjust your gamma until your brightness is as you like it. nVidia screenshot shown.

From 1 to 1.5 was enough for me.

"In recordings (primarily using OBS) and in screenshots (with snip and sketch) everything appears extremely over-exposed / bright with HDR enabled" - Telling a customer of an open platform OS like Windows 11, that they should alter their preferred workflow to use a Microsoft only tool that could even be turned off by their company's admin is not an acceptable response. This was previously working functionality that the upgrade itself from Windows 10 to Windows 11 (forced on many) newly caused, in Software engineering we call this "a bug" and usually are not allowed to provide a lazy, inadequate response like this which is to me, an ineffective answer to the question and it should be unsatisfactory by Microsoft's standards.

Also, I've noticed that with dual-monitor usage there is inconsistency in the sharpness of the "active main display" and the secondary. I can tell this because I can see it with my own eyes visually not due to monitor quality.(I have 2x Dell 1440p G-Sync compatible high end gaming monitors with EXCELLENT reviews in sharpness, brightness, and picture quality)

If it were system related it would not show to anyone else in streaming/snapshot mode as it shows identically in the other commenter's snips from the game "Stray") it's bad, it's not acceptable, and the answer needs to be "this is the ticket/future update that's going to resolve this mass issue" NOT use Xbox Game Bar which again, many company's admins don't even allow so your work around is only for a narrow user base as well.

On a side point, I changed the colour profile in Chrome which seemed to fix the issue when snipping from Chrome (which was my main issue). I've also tested snipping from Word (which obviously a change in Chrome shouldn't impact... ) and that was also fine.

I went to here: chrome://flags/#force-color-profile

and changed the colour profile to sRGB (the below screenshot was a snip with HDR on, and as you can see... it's now fine)

Give it a go.. see if it sorts it for you.

I think the down side of this is HDR content inside Chrome (e.g. youtube video) will not display in HDR?

No, definitely a single monitor issue. Any time I try to take a screenshot (this system has literally never had a second screen connected to it) they show up blown out.

Does everyone have a second non HDR monitor? The one I have trouble with has a HDR monitor and a non HDR monitor hooked up to it.