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Win10 can’t perform color management correctly? Save with Honeyview
Win10 has been released for more than five years and has undergone several major version updates during the period, and many of them have been named “Creators Update”. However, for creators, Win10 has not paid attention to a very painful issue-color management. Especially in UWP apps, including picture viewing, color management is useless. If you are using a wide color gamut display and browsing ordinary SRGB pictures, the colors will often be oversaturated, and the colors are not only dazzling but also lose a lot of details.
In Win10, UWP apps including Photo App cannot perform color management correctly. The picture shows the comparison between Chrome and the old Edge
The Win10 system itself provides ICC calibration settings, but the built-in image viewing App cannot perform color gamut mapping correctly. How to do? Can only rely on third-party viewing software. Today, I will introduce you an excellent little software for viewing pictures-Honeyview.
This is a small software from Korean developer Bandisoft. They also have another famous work “Bandizip”, which is one of the best compression software currently experienced, and many old software players are quite familiar with it. Honeyview has an installation package and a green version. Both versions do not come with advertisements and are still very clean and refreshing.
Honeyview interface
The use of Honeyview is very simple. Its biggest selling point is that it provides high performance and excellent functions . Using it to open the picture, the response is very fast, and now some mobile phones have soared to 100 million pixels, and Honeyview can still handle it, which is still quite valuable.
Since the beginning of focusing on the defects of Win10 Viewing App, Honeyview can naturally solve the problem. In the settings of Honeyview, ICC files can be used for color management . In this way, even on a wide color gamut screen, the display of SRGB will not be distorted, and the effect will be the same as that of PS, which is more suitable for graphics workers.
Can use ICC files for color management
Let’s take a look at other functions of Honeyview. First of all , Honeyview is very comprehensive in terms of supporting formats, as follows:
Image format: BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, PSD, DDS, JXR, WebP, J2K, JP2, TGA, TIFF, PCX, PGM, PNM, PPM, BPG
Raw image format: DNG, CR2, CRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, RW2, PEF, SR2, RAF
Animated image format: Animated GIF, Animated WebP, Animated BPG, Animated PNG
You can directly view the images in the compressed package without decompression: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, LZH, TAR, CBR, CBZ
It can be seen that Honeyview can support advanced graphic formats such as Webp, and it can also browse PSD directly, which is very practical. In addition, Honeyview can also browse the pictures in compressed files directly, which greatly improves efficiency.
You can directly view the pictures of the compressed package, it is very cool to read comics
Secondly, Honeyview also provides many functions. For example, it can view the exif information of the photo, and if it is taken on a mobile phone, even the location where the photo was taken is clear at a glance; for example, it can specify software such as PS as the photo editor, and it is more efficient to modify the picture directly.
Some features of Honeyview
In general, Honeyview has powerful performance, useful functions, and most importantly, it can support complete color management, which can greatly compensate for the defects of Win10’s own picture viewing software. If you use a wide color gamut screen, you might as well give it a try.
