Monday, July 29, 2019

Color in photo viewers

In a post about my favorite lizard, I noted that the same animal can appear in different colors in different photos. That's true even when using the same camera in the same light. (I still almost always shoot with the camera in full automatic mode.) The other day I noticed that the exact same photo can have a different color cast depending on the program used to view the picture.

In the left image, rocks have a tan cast. In the right, they're gray.
On the left, Windows Photo Viewer. On the right, Windows preview.

The photo is from January, and I can't say now which rendering is closest to what I saw. The picture in Paint and PaintShop Pro looks like the one on the right, so maybe those colors are "correct."

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