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DQ_C

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  1. I will add my voice to the noise - I've started to come across AVIF more and more lately especially for HDR, other participants have presented many strong reasons to develop this, while WEBP is nice, it doesn't do HDR so it's less than ideal for some of us. Please don't let this fall on deaf ears, it's important for a lot of us.
  2. SOLUTION: Turns out Windows really is backwards as all hell. Seems I was right all along, browsers were being fed the wrong colour profile, specifically the HDR calibration tool one. However I've purged all of the custom profiles and re-calibrated my monitors, one for Rec.709 with BT.1886 g2.4 TRC and the other with just plain old sRGB g2.2. This is now feeding all of the applications the correct profiles and the images are displayed correctly and consistently across both monitors, *all* browsers and apps. Kudos to Greg Benz for helping out with replies on a 2y old thread on his own webpage! He seems to have confirmed in parallel that this HDR profile could be the problem. Hope this helps others out there, thank you all for the input, much appreciated! EDIT: It would seem the reason Firefox was showing the correct image is because it's supposedly "too dumb" to make use of HDR profiles. Then again, is it really dumb if it did the right thing?
  3. Every single browser passes every single test I've found, including the one you've linked. The problem still occurs. Anyway I believe this is becoming more of a Windows-related problem and less Affinity-related.
  4. To simplify the whole answer, I will ignore all the variations I've gone through as the only relevant one is sRGB. Soft proofing wouldn't really help as I don't plan on printing. See, I thought the same thing and I know in theory that is correct. Now, I know screenshots are the wrong way to troubleshoot colour-related issues, but you can clearly see something is DEFINITELY wrong here. Left is Opera/Chrome/Edge, right side is Affinity/Firefox/Photo viewer/XnView with cm enabled. The only explanation I can possibly come up with is that along the way, in it's *infinite wisdom* Windows has completely messed up which monitor profile is being fed to what. Honestly it's doing my head in and I eventually just pulled out my laptop to confirm what is actually being sent out and I will nuke this Windows install out of orbit because it's starting to get on my nerves. Thank you for the detailed response, as replied earlier, soft proofing is not on my list as I do not go to print. And if I was, I simply wouldn't use anything but PS because I used to work on book editing and I have a working process. I know that assigning the monitor profiles is incorrect, but it did give the desired results, which again is messing with my knowledge. Either way that has been somewhat clarified now - Windows is being erm..... Windows o_O... not something I can describe by the rules of this forum. I am actually going to nuke this install and take it from scratch, I had to work on some reviews a while back which required me to switch between a number of displays and display pen tablets, I think something went terribly wrong along the way and I have no way of figuring it out because despite removing all profiles and devices not in use, they're somehow still in the system.
  5. Since I don't really expect an answer, I'll post my own after A LOT more digging than necessary. The simple explanation is Window's colour management is so **** that browsers don't always know what to do. The image as shown in Affinity is "correct" after corroborating with a bunch other colour-managed applications and the only browser to show these images correctly is Firefox (Chrome and Edge also broken somehow). If these work for you, more power to it but if it looks right in Photo and you export with the correct ICC profile, you've done your best and the rest is wild wild west. For me, Firefox is the only one showing the correct colours and I have no explanation why other than it uses the correct monitor profiles and it gives BY FAR the most control over colour management options. Unless something is terribly wrong in my statements, in which case I welcome corrections, I would consider this thread closed, hopefully it helps others with a simple answer.
  6. Hi, I'm sure this has been asked before and I genuinely don't understand what the problem is here, if it's a workflow issue or a bug. Should mention I am using Affinity V2, on a monitor calibrated for BT.1886 but it happens on Rec.709 as well. Here are the steps I've been taking to troubleshoot, as this doesn't happen to me in PS or DaVinci Resolve. If I open a file with sRGB profile embedded, it shows up brighter. I assign it my monitor ICC, the colours become correct. I export with sRGB embedded - image is darker. If I export with my monitor's ICC - image is WAY darker. should note, in Photo Viewer it shows up exactly as in Affinity, but browsers, Discord, everywhere else, the colours are darker, please see example below. The 3rd image is how it is supposed to export, but instead comes out as the 2nd, way darker. I re-assign sRGB, image becomes brighter again but exports correctly with sRGB embedded. Somewhere, at some point, some transform is applied without it being supposed to. I have attached the image I'm using, not that it makes any particular difference. Tl;dr - imports are bright by default, exports are dark compared to canvas. Any further info I can offer, let me know. Full disclosure, for what it's worth I don't expect this post to go anywhere as it seems to be common to have support just abandon threads - the ONE thing I really dislike about Affinity, everything else is honestly great. That said, Adobe's support is even worse, for higher costs. Call it a mini-rant. Kind regards, V.
  7. I'll bump this with a +1 as well, ACES is moving to 2.0, AgX is on 2.0, there's a need for this.
  8. Hi guys, was wondering if there's been any progress on getting this plugin to register as 32-bit? I see it's still disabled in 1.9.0 and I thought everything was provided to help enable it. Any chance this will ever be available? Many thanks!
  9. So much for receiving post notifications, I missed this completely! Yes of course, I will forward the contact and hopefully you can communicate towards a resolution, would be amazing. I have also attached the snipped of code I was pointed to by the dev with regards to 32-bit compatibility: "MIB8", /* '8BIM' */ "lbne", /* 'enbl' EnableInfoProperty */ 0L, /* Index */ 96L, /* Length */ "in (PSHOP_ImageMode, RGBMode, RGB48Mode, CMYKMode, CMYK64Mode, LabMode, Lab48Mode, RGB96Mode)\0\0\0", Hopefully that will give you a lead while the dev gets in touch with you. Kind regards, Valentin
  10. @Mark Ingram I've contacted Affinity and they got back to me with the PiPL file for you to use, how can I send it over to you? Chema Guerra (lead dev) has also been very forthcoming and said he can help you directly if needed as well.
  11. Sadly, my monitor does not support HDR so I can't use that particular feature yet, I am looking to change to a proper HDR10 one but they're expensive. The proper ones, not gaming half-assed HDR monitors. I also don't put much accent on HDR workflow because it has a ridiculously limited audience, so it's far from a priority right now. However you have something that is just insanely useful for me: OCIO Display Transforms. I can sync up lookdev between Blender or Maya and Photo, that really is crazy useful for me. I think there's a way to do that in PS too but I don't recall ever using it or it wasn't very obvious how to do it. I prefer working in 32-bit EXR as much as possible, so for compositing I use PS and EXR-IO to load a multi-layer EXR, AP for editing because it's easier, faster and can tweak multiple layers at once, then move back to PS with a flattened 32-bit EXR for ArionFX which is essentially Camera Raw for 32-bit but focused on CGI instead of photography, and this is usually my last step in the process. A bit of a faff to constantly switch between apps but it is what it is. I found working with multi-layer EXR very hit-or-miss but in Photoshop there is an extremely useful plugin called Exr-IO which is free, sadly isn't detected by Affinity Photo but what it does is it loads multi-layer EXR and Cryptomatte groups for you, those are extremely useful for compositing. If there's any plugin or functionality I recommend integrating for 32-bit workflows, it's Multi-layer EXR and Cryptomatte support, these are basically essential for my workflow. Multi-layer EXR can always be saved as individual files for each pass and then loaded up in a bunch, which is fine, just less convenient. Cryptomatte is a bit trickier though but still manageable, at least for my requirements. Other times I've had to re-composite lighting, so that means working with premultiplied Alpha 32bit EXRs and composite those on top. Another thing I occasionally do is edit HDRIs and colour-tone them at multiple EVs to get a nicer result than in-camera balance. Even with a proper grey card and MacBeth chart, it still sometimes warrant some tweaking. I hope this helps a bit, It really depends, I have a relatively straight-forward workflow, it's been very reliable in Affinity Photo but if there's anything specific you'd like me to test for you in 32-bit workflow, please do let me know.
  12. Thank you very much for providing some insight, I have sent an email to their support team, they're quite good about it so I am really hoping they will be able to help. Would be a bit strange not to since it benefits everyone involved - Photo expands compatibility, they have a wider market to address and I will be able to finally and permanently uninstall PS :)) Thanks again, I'll keep you posted when I find out more from them.
  13. Hello, just checking in, has there been any progress with looking into this at all? If not, is there anything I can do to force enabling it? Thanks! V
  14. Working fine on my end, sorry to be unhelpful but I can't think of what the problem might be. Maybe Windows Ink is causing some issues or something disabled in your tablet properties?
  15. Hi Mark, Thank you for getting back to me. The plugin is very much made for 32-bit workflow, it even starts complaining that an image is LDR instead of HDR. Is there any kind of information I can give you to help with this? Obviously not today, it's Sunday and I wouldn't want to intrude in your time off But I can confirm the plugin does work with 32-bit images in Photoshop, so if there's anything I can help with, please do let me know. Thanks again
  16. Hello, I've gone through the forum before posting this but can't find an answer. I'm a 3D artist and work with 32-bit EXR constantly. I have a plugin, ArionFX, which is specifically made to work with 32-bit images, I use it in Photoshop all the time but in Photo, it is greyed out unless I change the image from 32-Bit/HDR to 16-bit, which obviously then forfeits the advantages of HDR workflow. I did check and was working with rasterized layers but no joy. Since the plugin does work perfectly well, it opens, processes and applies the effects correctly but simply not available in 32-bit, is this something that you could potentially look into? Frankly it's pretty much the only plugin I ever use and just keeping me from just jumping to Photo full time. If this is something you would be willing to take a look at, please let me know what kind of info you need from my end. Is there anything I can do to force it's availability in 32-bit? Many thanks! V.
  17. Hi there, I tried to search the forums for the right question and this one was the closest I could tack on to, so thank you both for asking and replying. I only have a small clarification to request, if possible: I work in a medium-sized company but I'm the only person who owns a personal license of Affinity Photo and Designer; my understanding is that it is allowed to be used on computers the user owns or controls - so my question is, considering that I am the only one in control of my account and that the software is only accessible through my account but other users could occasionally use the PC (without access to my software), does this qualify as being in control of said terminal? Last thing I want is to throw legal spanners in the company's wheels, I'm actually trying to promote it within the office wherever possible to try and replace some of the competition's products. Thanks again! DQ
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