Desktop Color vs Explorer Color

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  1. quikcf

    quikcf Well-Known Member

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    Everytime i edit a picture it looks beautiful in lightroom, it looks the same in windows explorer, but as soon as i make it my desktop background it become a different color, the original file doesnt change but it displays different as a background, how do i fix this?

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  2. Clash

    Clash The Go-To Guy

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    Windows Desktop images are JPGs by default. In image editing software, you're looking at an uncompressed version of the image. See if you can find a way to use a tiff or pdf as a desktop image.
     
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    what an odd and frustrating problem
     
  4. quikcf

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    fixed! saved as a png and the colours are perfect now, tried a few formats before getting it right.
     

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