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Chrome/Edge screenshot washed out. Issues

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So I'm trying to take a screenshot on anything, be it an app or a game or anything, either with print screen or the snipping tool, but both convert the image colours to something else. I don't know what happened.

It was fine until yesterday when I got a new monitor. I can't see how the monitor will impact the screenshot really, but that was the ONLY change. 

I am using the awful and buggy windows update that everyone is having issues with, but until yesterday my screenshots were fine.

Is anyone else having the same issue? 

So this is what I mean. The border around is gone, the image is washed out and there is practically no colour. I don't know what is happening... 

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The answer literally was change the resolution and then back to the correct one (or preferred one), and that fixed it :) 

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So after a long time investigating the issue, here are a few observations:

1. It only happens on Chromium browsers - Edge and Chrome. On Firefox it's perfectly fine.

2. It doesn't happen anywhere else or on any other app.

3. Any screenshot taken just bugs it out

4. Even when I change the resolution like I thought fixes it, it doesn't

So the fix is literally this:

chrome://flags/#force-color-profile

Both Chrome and Edge have the same option and this fixes it in both browsers. I don't know if this is a Chromium thing, Windows thing, Nvidia thing or something else thing, but this fixed it for me and I'm very thankful! It's been 2 weeks that this has been an issue and I'm glad its sorted out now. 

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That fixed it for me too.

Looks like it's an issue with HDR.

There is a similar solution with Visual Studio Code appearing too dark. Setting "force-color-profile": "srgb" solved it.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/88491#issuecomment-600288632

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