The frustrating thing is you work in photoshop to get your pictures spot on, but they look considerably different when displayed by these viewers. At least that's what it was when I upgraded to win 10. I believe the 'photos' app is the default photo viewer for most common formats. The Microsoft Office Picture Manager is somewhat in between. Also if you have gigantic files from dreadnaughts like the D810 or A7r's, it may take three or four seconds before the gamma changes. Again, this is easier to see if you have a high-key or low-key photograph, since any slight changes are magnified in shadow detail or highlight details. Then if you close the edit menu, without making any changes, it will suddenly revert back to a lighter, less contrasty, less saturated display configuration again. As soon as you click the pencil to get the edit menu, the picture will suddenly be darker, more contrasty, and more saturated, even though you haven't even started editing. The nasty thing is, if you click on the pencil to edit, the gamma changes EVEN THOUGH YOU DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES. The 'photos' app on the other hand displays photos on the light side, with lower contrast and less saturation.

If you have a low-key photo, your shadows will turn into a black mass with no detail at all, even though the detail is there.

If you have an average photo (Histogram shows a big hump in the middle) you might not notice as much, but if you have a high-key or low-key photo (Histogram shows a hump displaced to the right or the left) you'll notice it more.Īnyway, 'Windows Photo Viewer' displays pictures on the dark side. Since they are all Microsoft products, they should all have a common and consistent configuration for displaying the photos but they don't. There are at least three win 10 apps for viewing photos.

Windows 10 photo viewers