What are some lightweight photo viewers for Windows that are color-managed? I don’t really want to use a photo editor to browse photos.
It’s fairly well documented that the default JPG viewer in Windows 7 / Windows 10 is not color managed. The artifact is usually a yellowish cast. The frequently-recommended solution is to reset the monitor’s ICC profile to sRGB.
So if you have a monitor-specific ICC profile (ICM), the only solution seems to be to use a viewer that’s not hard-coded to sGRB.
One of the Windows tools was by the way.
You (still) have the win7 era photo viewer, and the win10 style photos app. One of those is color managed, the other isn’t. I believe the old win7 style one is the color managed one.
Anyway, I’ve always used irfanview . Color management can (and has!> be enabled from the options somewhere .
For me irfanview is useless for saving (only 8bpc) but it reads almost everything.
I also use IrfanView, though I can’t get it to colour manage properly. But then it might be a low effort attempt on my part… I think your best bet is to use Firefox. For me, if you are sharing digitally / online, might as well use a browser. It has several colour management settings. We talked about it somewhere on the forum.
PS I guess the question is more about browsing photos. I just drag and drop photos into my browser, so that may not be the best way for browsing photos… Sorry, I didn’t answer your question.
Faststone is good…
Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll take a look.
