How to Enable HDR Screenshot Color Corrector in Snipping Tool
You enable the HDR Screenshot Color Corrector in Windows 11’s Snipping Tool to ensure your screenshots accurately represent colors, especially on HDR displays.
This handy feature automatically corrects the color output of your screenshots, making them look as intended on both Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) monitors.
Microsoft introduced this correction in Windows 11 to fix noticeable color shifts that often occurred when capturing HDR content.
Open Snipping Tool, click the three dots menu in the top right, select Settings, and toggle the “HDR screenshot color corrector” switch. This ensures your screenshots accurately represent colors on HDR displays.
What Is the Snipping Tool?
The Snipping Tool is Windows’ built-in screenshot utility. You can use it to capture any part of your screen – from full screens to specific windows or areas.
It also offers features like redacting text and managing recording options.
Why Should You Know About the HDR Color Corrector?
The HDR Screenshot Color Corrector in Windows Snipping Tool helps your screenshots look accurate on HDR screens, making sure the colors you see are the colors you capture.
Why is this useful? If you have an HDR monitor, this feature makes your screenshots look the way they actually appear on your screen. The colors will match what you see.
When should you turn it off? If you don’t have an HDR monitor, you probably don’t need this feature. You may also want to disable it if you prefer to adjust colors yourself. If you have an older or slower computer, turning it off might make the Snipping Tool run a bit faster.
How to Turn the HDR Color Corrector On or Off
- Open the Snipping Tool on your computer.
- Click the three dots button (See more) in the top right corner.
- Select Settings from the menu.
- Look for the “HDR screenshot color corrector” option on the Settings screen.
- Toggle the switch button to turn it On or Off based on what you want.
- Close the Snipping Tool when you’re done.
You can easily turn the HDR Screenshot Color Corrector on or off right from the Snipping Tool’s settings menu.
Summary
Windows 11’s Snipping Tool now has an HDR screenshot color corrector that helps make your screenshots match what you see on an HDR monitor.
How to fix screenshots being bright with HDR?
And search HDR which should bring up the option menu. Or go to your desktop. And right click go down to display settings. Like so and we are literally going to turn off HDR.
Why does HDR mess up screenshots?
HDR screenshots and recordings often look washed out, too bright, too dark, or strangely colored because the image was made for a high-brightness, wide-color display, while the capture is usually saved, shared, or viewed through an SDR pipeline.
How to take proper HDR screenshots?
Taking proper HDR screenshots is simple using the Windows Game Bar shortcut, ⊞ Win+G, which lets you capture your screen with HDR settings enabled.
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