XnView Software

Hi,
I got a jpeg from a designer;
The jpeg should be black and white with blue letters. When I open the file in Adobe Photoshop this is correct.

However, when I view the file with xnview the whole black and white part is very blue-ish.

Is there a setting to colorcorrect? or to set another color working space or something?

thanks in advance!

xp2002 wrote:Hi,
I got a jpeg from a designer;
The jpeg should be black and white with blue letters. When I open the file in Adobe Photoshop this is correct.

However, when I view the file with xnview the whole black and white part is very blue-ish.

Is there a setting to colorcorrect? or to set another color working space or something?

Seems that your jpeg file use ICC profile, but XnView doesn't use it yet...

Thanks for your reply!

Will this be a new feature in the near future of xnview?

Adobe JPGs often have compatibility problems with other programs, this is because adobe often uses unusual features in the format. These features are officially legit and within standards, but they are so rarely used that the vast majority of programs don't bother supporting them. The simplest workaround to avoid nearly all such problems is to use the "save for web" feature to save your JPGs instead of just the normal save feature. Open your pic in photoshop, save it using the save for web feature, then open it in xnview, it should look correct.

and this is fully true. I just tried it: opening in photoshop and saved it with the save for webfeature. The jpg looks perfectly now!

So, if adobe uses features within' the rules of the standard. Isn't this technically a bug?

Because, I knew how the picture should look like, but if all (or most) viewers don't show the adobe pictures right, what should we do being a user? I can't convert all pictures to be sure it looks correct...

Thanks for your info, I learnt something of this

Whenever you're using photoshop and are saving a JPG that you plan to use in any other application, use the save for web feature. Always. Technically it's a design flaw in nearly all non-photoshop programs, technically (almost) all of photoshop's JPGs are legitimate and standards compliant. Realistically you could consider it an error on photoshop's part (an error in judgement if nothing else), because the vast majority of programs on the market have one problem or another with one or more of the advanced features PS uses in their JPGs. Certain JPGs made by one version of PS (I believe it was v7) would not work at all in many programs, and would cause IE to freeze up and crash.

Bottomline: Unless you want to go to the authors of every program capable of viewing JPGs (including browsers, word processors, etc) and get them to provide proper support for all features of all standards compliant JPGs, it's infinitely easier to just always make a habit of using save for web.