I was observing the same issue since a recent update in precise (I have upgraded to quantal since then and the issue persisted). Unsetting the ICC profile as suggested by Felix in comment #14 solved the issue.
Before unsetting the ICC profile, I took the test suggested in comment #19 (opened the image in gimp, and verified that ticking "Try to use the system monitor profile" resulted in the same washed out colours observed in eog). So it’s definitely an issue with the profile, not eog itself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eog in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938751 Title: jpeg images are washed out or colors are skewed Status in Eye of GNOME: New Status in “eog” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “eog” source package in Precise: Confirmed Bug description: Not all images are affected but enough are. Below is a screen shot of the issue with the image highlighted in nautilus to show that the color corruption seems to be eog rather than libjpeg. http://ubuntuone.com/1oFONmmTFXBzlHbM436Rwd ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: eog 3.3.90-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic-pae 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.92-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CheckboxSubmission: ba9c4255a69726424c6447d1c48d6601 CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308 Date: Wed Feb 22 09:13:48 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201.1) SourcePackage: eog UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-21 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/eog/+bug/938751/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
