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Re:Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android by poglet on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:39PM (#19967194)
The steps I took were: Right click on the image and selected copy. Paste it into Paint (which showed the logo).

I then saved it as a PNG (still showing the logo in Windows image viewer) and uploaded to Imgur. I assume pasting it into paint compressed the colors?

I saved it as a PNG and uploaded it. I don't know the technical details behind this but I'm assuming Paint compressed the colors.

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Re:Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android by TwoBit on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:59AM (#19968088)
PNGs are saved as sRGB by default, and so the differences aren't remapped away by the OS like they would be if the PNG was saved with a wider color space.
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