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linux mint is rendering image colours incorrectly

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**EDIT!** so i guess it's not a matter of colour profiles or operating systems, but of whatever program linux uses to render images by default..? maybe??? because when i open up the same image in both image viewer (left, incorrect colour perception) and imagemagick (right, correct colour perception), i get the same results as i do when i open it between firefox on linux and windows. ![a screenshot of an image opened with two image viewing softwares. imagemagick on the right shows the correct colour rendering, while image viewer on the left displays it as slightly lighter and cooler than it should be.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/49zc2kev3ay.png) so i'm guessing now that i have to change the way linux renders images by default, if there's even a way to do that. it's not SUPER important, since i now know there's a program that can display my art correctly, but it would be nice. **OG POST** i've been gradually settling myself into mint the last few days, since i wanna start inching myself away from windows and all the crap it's pulling. i've mostly been able to figure out everything on my own, but one thing is tripping me up; the way that mint (or maybe ubuntu as a whole?) renders the colours of images is off. i'm a digital artist. colour accuracy is something i really need to have. none of the usual colour profiling tools worked for me (gnome colour manager doesn't have the functionality i need, and every other effective tool needs an expensive piece of hardware that you stick to the screen) so i then decided to boot up my windows VM and take a look at the same website, side by side. the colours come through differently!! top is how it's rendering in linux mint with firefox (incorrect, banner image colour does not match nav elements), bottom is how it's rendering in windows 11 pro with firefox (correct colours). ![a screenshot showing the way mint and windows render the banner of OP's website. the linux one on top shows that the banner's background is a slightly lighter green than the elements below it, leading it to look mismatched. the windows one on the bottom shows the banner with properly saturated green that matches the website elements.](https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/4gdcx9vz2w4.png) i checked the same image in clip studio paint (which i got running through playonlinux), and it's rendering the picture the same as it is in the windows VM. so while i at least don't have to worry about linux messing up my art WHILE i'm making it (and hopefully when i'm making breakpoints as well), this is still probably something that's gonna bug me... anyone got tips for fixes, or do i just have to deal with it? running linux mint 22.1 cinnamon 6.4.7 with the X11 display server. let me know if there's anything else i should include for you nerds, since i'm still pretty new at this whole linux thing.
Asked by sprite (1 rep)
Feb 23, 2025, 06:39 PM
Last activity: Feb 23, 2025, 10:42 PM