Windows Photo Viewer is one of the most beautiful image viewers for Windows PC. Windows Photo Viewer is popular because of its simplicity and neat & clean UI. If you are using Windows 11/10/8/7, you can easily use Windows Photo Viewer to open standard images. If you are using Windows 11/10, you can still get Windows Photo Viewer using a registry tweak, which we will cover soon.
By default, Windows Photo Viewer comes with a whitish (color code #eef3fa) background. If you often make logos or other images with transparent backgrounds or transparency, you can face problems while checking the image in Windows Photo Viewer, while differentiating the color of Windows Photo Viewer’s background and transparency.
Therefore, if you want to change the background color of the Windows Photo Viewer, you can follow this guide. It is possible to set any color according to your requirement.
Windows Photo Viewer Change Background Color
This will be done using the Registry Editor. As usual, you should back up your registry file using this guide. This is also recommended to create a system restore point before making a change in the registry file.
Now, open Registry Editor. For that, press Win + R, type regedit, and hit Enter. Click on the Yes button on the UAC popup. Following that, go through the following path,
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\Viewer
Here you will get only one file. Make another DWORD (32-bit) value on your right side. For that, right-click on an empty area, select New and DWORD (32-bit) Value.
Name it BackgroundColor. After that, double click on this value and set a color. To add color, you must have to use HEX code with ff. For instance, if you want to set black as background color, just enter this:
ff000000
You can choose any color you want. You can use a color picker to choose a color.
After setting up the color, just close the current window of Windows Photo Viewer and open it again to get the change. No restart is required.
Hope you find this tutorial useful.
