Why doesn't my image load properly in MATLAB?

Question

This is my original image:

But when I load it up on MATLAB and use ims

Answer 1

GIF is indexed format, and each image can have its own colormap. So you need to read the colormap together with the image:

[I, Imap] = imread('D:\Matty\pout.gif');
imshow(I,Imap)

I've tested it on your image and it works very well. i don't understand what was the problem @Lucas described in his answer.