diff --git a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ClipboardHelper.cs b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ClipboardHelper.cs
index e79d5b942..7a1777d7f 100644
--- a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ClipboardHelper.cs
+++ b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ClipboardHelper.cs
@@ -385,15 +385,12 @@ EndSelection:<<<<<<<4
 			MemoryStream pngStream = null;
 			try {
 				// Create PNG stream
-				if (config.ClipboardFormats.Contains(ClipboardFormat.PNG) || config.ClipboardFormats.Contains(ClipboardFormat.HTMLDATAURL)) {
+				if (config.ClipboardFormats.Contains(ClipboardFormat.PNG)) {
 					pngStream = new MemoryStream();
-					// PNG works for Powerpoint
+					// PNG works for e.g. Powerpoint
 					SurfaceOutputSettings pngOutputSettings = new SurfaceOutputSettings(OutputFormat.png, 100, false);
 					ImageOutput.SaveToStream(surface, pngStream, pngOutputSettings);
 					pngStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
-				}
-
-				if (config.ClipboardFormats.Contains(ClipboardFormat.PNG)) {
 					// Set the PNG stream
 					ido.SetData("PNG", false, pngStream);
 				}
@@ -414,11 +411,19 @@ EndSelection:<<<<<<<4
 				
 				// Set the HTML
 				if (config.ClipboardFormats.Contains(ClipboardFormat.HTML)) {
-					string tmpFile = ImageOutput.SaveToTmpFile(surface, new SurfaceOutputSettings(OutputFormat.png), null);
+					string tmpFile = ImageOutput.SaveToTmpFile(surface, new SurfaceOutputSettings(OutputFormat.png, 100, false), null);
 					string html = getHTMLString(surface, tmpFile);
 					ido.SetText(html, TextDataFormat.Html);
 				} else if (config.ClipboardFormats.Contains(ClipboardFormat.HTMLDATAURL)) {
-					string html = getHTMLDataURLString(surface, pngStream);
+					string html;
+					using (MemoryStream tmpPNGStream = new MemoryStream()) {
+						SurfaceOutputSettings pngOutputSettings = new SurfaceOutputSettings(OutputFormat.png, 100, false);
+						// Do not allow to reduce the colors, some applications dislike 256 color images
+						// reported with bug #3594681
+						pngOutputSettings.DisableReduceColors = true;
+						ImageOutput.SaveToStream(surface, tmpPNGStream, pngOutputSettings);
+						html = getHTMLDataURLString(surface, tmpPNGStream);
+					}
 					ido.SetText(html, TextDataFormat.Html);
 				}
 			} finally {
diff --git a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ImageOutput.cs b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ImageOutput.cs
index dcbd3bc5a..f964caba8 100644
--- a/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ImageOutput.cs
+++ b/GreenshotPlugin/Core/ImageOutput.cs
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ namespace GreenshotPlugin.Core {
 						imageToSave = nonAlphaImage;
 					}
 
-					// check for color reduction, forced or automatically
-					if (conf.OutputFileAutoReduceColors || outputSettings.ReduceColors) {
+					// check for color reduction, forced or automatically, only when the DisableReduceColors is false 
+					if (!outputSettings.DisableReduceColors && (conf.OutputFileAutoReduceColors || outputSettings.ReduceColors)) {
 						WuQuantizer quantizer = new WuQuantizer((Bitmap)imageToSave);
 						int colorCount = quantizer.GetColorCount();
 						LOG.InfoFormat("Image with format {0} has {1} colors", imageToSave.PixelFormat, colorCount);
diff --git a/GreenshotPlugin/Interfaces/Plugin/PluginInterfaces.cs b/GreenshotPlugin/Interfaces/Plugin/PluginInterfaces.cs
index d6c9d7e91..c1dc9d1ec 100644
--- a/GreenshotPlugin/Interfaces/Plugin/PluginInterfaces.cs
+++ b/GreenshotPlugin/Interfaces/Plugin/PluginInterfaces.cs
@@ -78,9 +78,11 @@ namespace Greenshot.Plugin {
 	public class SurfaceOutputSettings {
 		private static CoreConfiguration conf = IniConfig.GetIniSection<CoreConfiguration>();
 		private bool reduceColors;
+		private bool disableReduceColors;
 		private List<IEffect> effects = new List<IEffect>();
 
 		public SurfaceOutputSettings() {
+			disableReduceColors = false;
 			Format = conf.OutputFileFormat;
 			JPGQuality = conf.OutputFileJpegQuality;
 			ReduceColors = conf.OutputFileReduceColors;
@@ -120,15 +122,30 @@ namespace Greenshot.Plugin {
 		}
 
 		public bool ReduceColors {
-			get {
-				// Fix for Bug #3468436, force quantizing when output format is gif as this has only 256 colors!
-				if (OutputFormat.gif.Equals(Format)) {
-					return true;
+				get {
+					// Fix for Bug #3468436, force quantizing when output format is gif as this has only 256 colors!
+					if (OutputFormat.gif.Equals(Format)) {
+						return true;
+					}
+					return reduceColors;
 				}
-				return reduceColors;
+				set {
+					reduceColors = value;
+				}
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Disable the reduce colors option, this overrules the enabling
+		/// </summary>
+		public bool DisableReduceColors {
+			get {
+				return disableReduceColors;
 			}
 			set {
-				reduceColors = value;
+				// Quantizing os needed when output format is gif as this has only 256 colors!
+				if (!OutputFormat.gif.Equals(Format)) {
+					disableReduceColors = value;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}