Windows 10: Photo Viewer Background Color

Discus and support Photo Viewer Background Color in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; This is something that perplexes me - I have two computers running Windows 10 Pro, one's a desktop and one's a laptop. I used WinAeroTweaker to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by drfsupercenter, May 21, 2016.

  1. Photo Viewer Background Color


    This is something that perplexes me - I have two computers running Windows 10 Pro, one's a desktop and one's a laptop.

    I used WinAeroTweaker to "enable" the Windows Photo Viewer for image files, since I prefer it to the newer "Photos" app.

    When I open a picture on my desktop, the background color is some ugly yellowish off-white color. It's the normal shade on my laptop (as well as at work, where I have 10 Enterprise)

    Here are a couple comparison shots using the same image.

    On the laptop (I like this color)

    Photo Viewer Background Color [​IMG]


    On the desktop:

    Photo Viewer Background Color [​IMG]


    See how it's a yellower color? And what's weird is the white text in the background is ALSO that yellow color.

    I know when I open Photoshop, I get some message about an invalid monitor color profile, so I'm thinking Windows created some "profile" for my monitor that it's trying to adjust colors to match, and it's really doing nothing but causing trouble.

    My monitors look fine with just the standard un-adjusted colors that Windows 7 had, and other "dumb" programs like Paint. But the photo viewer seems to do what Photoshop is trying to do and adjust my colors for some reason.

    Is it possible to wipe those color profiles and just tell it to treat the monitor like a generic PnP monitor without anything special? I'm using DVI so it's able to query the monitor and find its model... other than that, I don't really know what's going on.

    If it means anything to anyone, I have an AMD Radeon 380X graphics card, and I just installed the newest driver update this morning. The monitors are LG something or other.

    :)
     
    drfsupercenter, May 21, 2016
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  2. Drewdler Win User

    Windows 10 default Photo Viewer - png files - Black Background Issues

    The issue here is the photo viewer's background is BLACK, hence black png image on black background = 0. I was looking to change the background color of the image viewer to fix this. Is there a way to change it? The photo viewer is working perfectly fine,
    they just did not consider the black png on black background.
     
    Drewdler, May 21, 2016
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  3. toonde2 Win User
    Windows Photoviewer - Can I, and how, change the background-color of the app. ?

    Thank you for the reply.

    Yes, I mean the background-color of the Windows photo viewer.

    I do like more a saturated gray color for the background.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    toonde2, May 21, 2016
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  4. Edwin New Member

    Photo Viewer Background Color

    @drfsupercenter
    If you open that same image in Windows Paint, does the same thing happen?
     
    Edwin, May 21, 2016
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  5. Nope, that's what's odd. It shows the proper white in Paint.
     
    drfsupercenter, May 21, 2016
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  6. Edwin New Member
    Edwin, May 21, 2016
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  7. Hmm, I tried that, but it didn't help.

    I was able to change the background color to black and that DID change it - but when I used "reset to default", and even if I selected pure white (which is lighter than the default shade of grey), it still showed up yellow.

    I definitely think that monitor color profile has something to do with it.

    This is the message Photoshop gives me:

    Photo Viewer Background Color [​IMG]


    I never created a profile to begin with, so I'm curious where it's pulling that from. But I think that might be the problem.
     
    drfsupercenter, May 22, 2016
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  8. Clint Win User

    Photo Viewer Background Color

    Mine was doing the same thing. Brink fixed it by telling me to do this .

    It was in this thread.
    Windows Photo Viewer - Restore in Windows 10 - Page 15 - Windows 10 Forums
     
    Clint, May 22, 2016
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  9. Ah, perfect, that's just what I needed. The colors look correct now!

    I'm wondering where that profile is even coming from. If I simply delete the bad one and don't assign the sRGB profile to it, it recreates itself and still has the same issue. It's like the graphics card (or is it Windows 10 itself? Never had this problem in 7) is detecting the monitor and trying to create a blank profile on the fly for it.
     
    drfsupercenter, May 22, 2016
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  10. Clint Win User
    Great. What would we do without Brink??
     
    Clint, Apr 5, 2018
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