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When you open a picture file in Windows Photo Viewer the default background color is white. This is just fine in most use cases. But you might find yourself in a situation where your picture is very bright and you might want to view it on a black or a grey toned background.
Or as in my situation I have a historic map that's been digitized at really high resolution. There is a white border surrounding the map sheet, and I need to remove that before I can import that file and start working with the map in a GIS system. The only problem is I can't see white on white. I don't know which files need editing and which ones do not.
So is there a way to change the background color in Windows Photo viewer?
Looking at this now... I don't think you guys understood the question. I was not asking this because the middle part of the picture (the actual map) appeared white for me... it didn't! It was yellow-ish... It's a 19th century map, what do you expect? It's nothing like Google Maps. I was asking because I wanted to customize the background that's used by Photo Viewer to create contrast. You can tell that there is a narrow white... or white-toned margin surrounding the map. I was not asking this with the purpose of working around this... supposedly common color profile problem in Windows. – Samir – 2015-07-01T19:37:27.343
For the record, all my monitors have their manufacturer supplied color profiles installed, and I do not recognize the problem you described. If you guys have a color profile problem, please post your own question about it. Don't provide solutions to that problem as the answer to my question. That's not my problem, and not what this question was about. – Samir – 2015-07-01T19:41:36.427
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If you see this color as white, you might want to check your color settings. ;) It's #eef3fa.
– Daniel B – 2014-02-21T12:29:18.937Haha, ok! Well it's a sort of "white". :) – Samir – 2014-02-21T12:34:53.057
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_white – Samir – 2014-02-21T12:40:43.650