diff --git a/lib/ui/painting/codec.cc b/lib/ui/painting/codec.cc
index b380e77af41249c781926bd27cdca1684b5b1a79..e218f342ca8f8a3340c622e6fc7508baa3d64b53 100644
--- a/lib/ui/painting/codec.cc
+++ b/lib/ui/painting/codec.cc
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ fxl::RefPtr<Codec> InitCodec(sk_sp<SkData> buffer, size_t trace_id) {
 
   std::unique_ptr<SkCodec> skCodec = SkCodec::MakeFromData(buffer);
   if (!skCodec) {
-    FXL_LOG(ERROR) << "SkCodec::MakeFromData failed";
+    FXL_LOG(ERROR) << "Failed decoding image. Data is either invalid, or it is "
+                      "encoded using an unsupported format.";
     return nullptr;
   }
   if (skCodec->getFrameCount() > 1) {