Calibration issue with Photo viewer

Gary Kinghorn

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I have a new monitor and a friend loaned me their iprofiler to calibrate it. I did the job this afternoon and found I had got it pretty close by eye with only a very small change needed. The problem is that now when I open images using Photo Viewer (my chosen program) images look dark and horrible. It is not a fault of the calibration as the images look fine as thumb nails, in LR and everywhere else. It's just Photo Viewer where they look dreadful. I have googled the issue and it looks like something others have suffered from in the dim and distant past, but nothing recent and no definite solution.

Any help with this please?
 
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Gary Kinghorn said:
I have a new monitor and a friend loaned me their iprofiler to calibrate it. I did the job this afternoon and found I had got it pretty close by eye with only a very small change needed. The problem is that now when I open images using Photo Viewer (my chosen program) images look dark and horrible. It is not a fault of the calibration as the images look fine as thumb nails, in LR and everywhere else. It's just Photo Viewer where they look dreadful. I have googled the issue and it looks like something others have suffered from in the dim and distant past, but nothing recent and no definite solution.

Any help with this please?
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You've used V4.0 ICC profiles. Recalibrate and make sure the software is using V2.0 ICC profiles.

This will sort it.
 
Gary Kinghorn said:
It appears to have happened to other people in the same way back in 2012 and earlier. I've gone over to a new viewer now.
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No need... use V2.0 profiles.
 
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