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Same here - I stupidly just cancelled photoshop which I used to do very simple animations in. I know that Procreate can animate though so I might just use that in future when I need to do it. Would be great if Affinity could do it too!

I can't tell you how thrilled I am!! I've just discontinued my adobe subscription now! So fully Affinity, HURRAH!

Ok, here we go. This is a v small format too, about business card size. It has printed just how it does on PS. Thank you SO SO much, I am SO happy!!

It worked!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I changed to 16bit, changed the ICC profile in the colour matching part and it has printed just like it does in PS! I was going to add a photo here but it won't let me again... haha!

Ok update! restart worked and I can choose ColorSync, however it was already selected as far as I can see so not sure this is going to make a difference (unless the 16bit will, would 32 bit be even better?)

Hi Dan, thanks so much! Ok, so my document was in 8bit - should it be in 16bit? It is in 8bit on PS (I hadn't even thought about that at all and didn't know and had to check!). I tried clicking on range and scale but for some reason it is not letting me click on it. I might need to do the old turn off and on again and see if that helps!

Thank you, yeah I have seen that video and it was the one I used to try to get it to work first time round (whenever it was I bought the app). It didn't result in there being good prints, all washed out/black etc like the above one. It's looking more like I will need to just keep using Photoshop which is a shame. This video also recommends getting a calibration device for the monitor, which IMO shouldn't be necessary if I'm already getting great and colour perfect prints using PS. Thanks for trying to help though!

This seems to be only relevant to photoshop (at least all the boxes are photoshop ones from what I can see) not to affinity photo. These options are not available in AP.

Thank you so much for trying! Hopefully someone with mac knowledge will appear!

I can't see a way to edit them so yeah, just a list.

Ok so i've found something - it says 'colour matching ColorSync' and 'profile 'automatic' - now it's letting me add a pic

And it now won't let me add the other image. FFS I have no idea what is going on! Sorry guys.

Ok so i've managed to make the attach image thing work... This is what happens when I click print in AP. No options for assigning it to anything here.

I don't know what ColorSync is LOL. I applied the profile via documents (on AP) but it doesn't seem to give me any option to let AP manage colours anywhere. At least I can't find it!

Hi again, It's just the print that looks off, they look the same within the apps. Yeah both programs are showing the same profile (the sRGB one). I haven't seen where to change the managing colours option on Affinity. I have always told PS to manage colours (rather than printer). It's so frustrating as I can't add photos now to these comments (no idea why that is, it just says queued below). Where do I see colour management within Affinity? With PS it shows up when i start to ask it to print and it is shown in a drop down on the dialogue box for printing. This doesn't seem to be an option within the print dialogue box on AP. Thank you for helping me out here, I really hope we can get to the bottom of it!

Of course now I can't upload photos for some reason! But the above print was produced using the suggestion in the article which was, i believe, this: sRGB IEC61966-1.1 The ICC I have used before (with the same washed out results) is the one I use in PS without issue and that is this: Innova_Epson-SC-P600_IFA14(VFAP)_MK_1440 - and that is for the specific paper I use.

Thank you Dan! Unfortunately I followed the instructions here re RGB etc and it's still doing the same thing. Previously I had tried by setting up the same ICC profiles as I do in Photoshop (I do not have a calibrated screen) and it came out the same. Basically washed out and too black. You can see on the left is the scan that I normally print and on the right the print from AP. It prints exactly like the pic on the left when I use Photoshop without any calibration and with the correct ICC profile for the paper I'm using. What is the difference in the two, what 'magic' is PS doing that Affinity does not do? I love Affinity but this whole printing situation is absolutely hair-pullingly frustrating. I don't really want to shell out for a calibration device and then find that this does the same thing and I've spent X amount on a device and AP is still producing off-colour prints. Obviously I'm 'shelling out' on being subscribed to Photoshop but I know it works and I'm nervous of the calibration thing not working too. From the article you say that it's best to have screen calibration, but it doesn't make it clear to me whether it's possible to print without calibration?

Hi there! I tried finding anyone who could help me with this last year, but no joy sadly. I am an illustrator and I use Photoshop to print from to an epson printer. I use a mac and I set PS so that it will print a certain ICC profile and photoshop managing colours etc. It prints almost 100% of the time true to colour without me having to do any tweaking in photoshop. I have tried to replicate this in AP but to no avail. I have wasted a lot of paper doing this and it is very frustrating! I want to drop photoshop and LOVE Affinity (publisher is great) but can't seem to find out what is going wrong here. When it prints out with the same ICC profiles on AP the print is washed out and dirty looking, completely different to how it should look. I have looked for help on youtube, i've looked through these community discussions but there don't seem to be any answers at all. Can I contact Affinity directly? It feels like with AP it feels more over complicated (if possible) than PS. Any help would be AMAZING, thank you!

Hi there, Yes the image looks the same on screen as it does in PS and I am using the same colour profile. In PS i am always setting to photoshop manages colours so I'm not sure what is happening. Any ideas? It seems that any image I'm printing comes out completely washed out and the saturation is awful.

I'm trying to leave Photoshop and the ONLY thing that is stopping me is the printing in AP. It is terrible. Even with the same profiles downloaded it doesn't print true to the scan. I paint in watercolour, scan in my art, clean it up and then print. In Photoshop this has never been an issue and they've always printed true. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong with Affinity but I so desperately want it to work because I'm sick of CC! I've tried with and without soft proof (using youtube tutorials on the soft proof), and both come out with the same results... I'm wasting a lot of expensive paper and am at my wits end... can anyone help?

Oh man that is a shame. I guess if in future they fix it then I can drop PS completely. It's frustrating as I used to use PS all the time for digital painting but I went back to traditional so I only use it for printing now and not that often. I might have to throw a message over to serif to ask them WTF is going on!

I have also been having this issue and have chucked several pieces of really expensive paper in the process. I am trying to leave PS (cc) and i have a very pale purple painting i'm printing and on PS it is fine but on AP it is awful, it's not usable and greyed out and all the colours are wrong. I'm exasperated as I want to be able to use AP but this one thing is essential and might mean that I have to stay with CC just to print which is ridiculous!