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I have the following image (have put a screen-grab of the image as its size is more than 2 MB - the original can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rC2QQBzMhZ8AG5Lp5PyrpkOxwlyP9QaE/view?usp=sharing

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When i open the image in MSPaint the image color get faded.Why does this happen? Is this because of Color depth change or something ? Please advice

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Gimp supports color profiles and is free, but will be a culture shock to someone that comes from MSPaint (but so would PS, possibly) \$\endgroup\$
    – xenoid
    Commented Dec 3, 2021 at 9:45

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I don't have a PC I could run MSPaint on to test or provide a 'fix' but I'm betting it doesn't know how to handle the ProPhoto profile that's embedded in the picture & is treating it as though it were sRGB.
It suffers the same colour loss if I open it in Photoshop & assign an sRGB profile without any colour management. You likely need a better [smarter] app to handle it.

Here's a mockup [translated properly to sRGB] of how each looks if the app understands or doesn't understand ProPhoto…

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As for suggestions as to what will be able to handle it properly - I don't use Windows, so don't know what's available. Gimp, as mentioned by xenoid, is cross-platform & very capable… but not the easiest app to throw yourself into.

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The actual answer to the question asked is... because of the colour profile embedded in the photo (which it appears Microsoft Paint doesn't read/respect).

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The color profile of your image is ProPhoto RGB which is a wide gamut color profile. Most low-end photo viewers and editors don't handle anything but sRGB color profile. When viewing a wide gamut image in sRGB space, the colors look dingy. When you're done editing your image in a wide gamut color space, you should convert to sRGB so the average person can view your images.

BTW, Microsoft has the worst multimedia programs.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ I'd suggest that this answer can be improved by expanding on what you mean by "dingy", by discussing how to convert to sRGB (and what options are available in the conversion), and also I think it's not helpful to make subjective claims about software from any particular vendor without backing it up with some data/experience/examples. \$\endgroup\$
    – osullic
    Commented Dec 4, 2021 at 23:11

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