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Why my screenshots are darker (then actual image on the screen) in Windows 10/11? Screen looks fine, but when I take screenshots they come out with a bit of a darker / greyish shade. I have tried various different Screen-capture options/apps (Snipping-tool & PrnScr button on keyboard) but no difference in results, I even tried going back to couple of Windows "Restore Points" to no avail. Any idea why?

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I found the resolution, in my case I had inadvertently installed a screen-contrast / brightness control app that was causing the screen to go darker, it came with a Mouse driver app that had an "Eye comfort control", which I now like very much as it's quick and handy to adjust brightness to comfort eyes. To avoid capturing the darker screenshots only thing I had to do is to turn it off before taking a screenshot (then turn it back on once I'm done).

Example of Darker Screenshot:

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Example of Correct Screenshot:

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Hope this helps others.

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    If that second shot is supposed to be on a white background, there's still something well out of whack somewhere. That's still literally 50% grey, 129,129,129 instead of 255,255,255. "White" on the first one is a squintingly dark 40,40,40.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Dec 29, 2021 at 18:37
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    Both screenshots look incredibly dark. An application shouldn't be able to control the contrast of a screenshot, when you take a screenshot, you are snapping what is being generated within Windows rather than what is being controlled by the display. In other words, I can increase the brightness of my display and it wouldn't affect the screenshot of an application's window with the Snipping-tool which tells me the application in question is doing something extremely strange.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Dec 29, 2021 at 18:43
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    @Ramhound - that app must be directly adjusting before even the screen profile - adjusting white point. Otherwise the profile & any screenshots, as you say, would not 'see' it at all. I think this would be the perfect opportunity to uninstall that app - making sure it can revert what it has completely messed up in the OP's profiling/calibration.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Dec 29, 2021 at 18:46
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    Hi I add a comment if someone find this question, on my side when I was using the print screen app of Windows the picture was all the time greyed, like if a shadow or grey layer was applied. In fact it was the HDR in the settings of the screen for my computer, Samsung Galaxy Book 3. Your answer help me to remember I made this change. Thanks
    – St3ph
    Commented Feb 2 at 6:45
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    In my case it was one of my monitors that was in HDR mode affecting the snipping tool to make all screenshots darker/flatter, even on a non-HDR screen. Turning of HDR in Windows (System > Screen > HDR) fixed it.
    – user5037
    Commented Feb 24 at 9:17

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