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Images look oversaturated
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 2:57 am
by ellos
Compared to Photoshop images displayed in XnView MP look much oversaturated.
Is there a way to make XnView to display images with the same gamma setting as Photoshop uses? (I think it is 2.4)
Thank you.
Re: oversaturation
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 6:37 am
by jkm
It sounds like you don't have things configured properly.
The short answer is: If you go into settings in XnViewMP, both the Thumbnail and View pages have options to use gamma correction.
But those settings shouldn't be necessary if you have your system set up properly.
If you're on Windows (you don't say your OS) your display driver may have gamma settings that need to be set appropriately. Also on Windows, if you don't have proper color management enabled, Windows provides a crude way to adjust gamma in the Color Calibration settings, reachable through Advanced Display settings. You could google that if you need more info.
If you are unsure of how Photoshop manages colors, I'd suggest checking your Color Settings in Photoshop. If you're using either sRGB or AdobeRGB as your working space, they both use a gamma of 2.2. Using 2.4 would result in incorrect colors unless your monitor itself is configured incorrectly. So you might want to double check if you have the hardware configuration on the monitor set appropriately.
Or, you might consider properly calibrating your monitor, and configure both Photoshop and XnViewMP (and your OS) to use the ICC profile. In XnViewMP, this can be set in Settings:General:Color management. Some products that can do this are discussed
here.
Hopefully this helps...
Re: Images look oversaturated
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2025 9:13 pm
by ellos
Sorry, I'm using Mac Sequioia 15.6.1 (24G90) and all images are saved using sRGB. I just want the images to be displayed similary to what I see in Photoshop and they look oversatureted and different in XNView MP.
Re: Images look oversaturated
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2025 8:50 am
by xnview
Settings>Color management is enabled?
Re: Images look oversaturated
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2025 7:52 pm
by ellos
Enabled, bit for some reason instead of System it shows Custom, see the screenshot. Is it correct or should I switch it to back to system? Honestly I doubt I set it to Custom, but maybe I did it by mistake.
https://imgur.com/a/C9M6biJ
Re: Images look oversaturated
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2025 9:11 pm
by jkm
You want it to match Photoshop, so you really need to look and see how Photoshop is configured.
Your screenshot indicates the System setting is to use the Display P3 ICC profile. (You'll recall I talked about setting the ICC profile in my earlier post).
If you're using an Apple Display-P3 compliant monitor, and if Photoshop is also using that Display P3 profile, then that is the best thing to do (switch to system) and then XnViewMP and Photoshop should both match.
Re: Images look oversaturated
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2025 11:44 pm
by ellos
Thank you, will give it a try