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On the main screen at start up there are your files, the tutorials and some sample images. It’s these sample images that hang. I've seen reports of similar in other Affinity apps so maybe the same issue. You just get a message saying “downloading sample” for a couple of minutes then “an unknown error occurred downloading the samples”. Another thread I read:

Hi Walt, thanks for input. Yeah sounds like what’s happening - Affinity somehow not getting OneDrive to properly transfer the files. The workaround seems to work where you just open from within Onedrive - then it gets handled properly. It’d be nice to see it handled properly by Affinity though - or official workaround. On the other point, I still can’t download any of the supplied samples. I’ll do some more research on that as probably unrelated.

Hi Paul. Thanks for the suggestion - if I do “open with other app” and pick Affinity Photo from within Onedrive, it works ok. Presumably this is because it’s downloading to transfer as you said. I’m a bit too embedded with Onedrive as I also use a windows laptop - something to bear in mind though. Thanks again.

If I open a jpg photo from Onedrive, Affinity Photo 1.10.3 gets stuck on “Downloading”. I’m doing “Open from cloud”. It’s not all files but also doesn’t seem to related to specific files. Maybe 30% success rate. Edit: Trying some more, I can’t open anything from Onedrive now - or the sample images….

And another request for a lightroom clone

Ok, think I’ve got to a conclusion. I’ve changed the saturation on laptop monitor to match iPhone and other monitor. Seems a reasonable bet given I’m not a pro. Reading other forums in PS, it looks like the generic HP printers don’t give profiles that you can pick from - it does it all for you. I.e., let the printer handle colours. In PSE, if you let the printer handle colours, it sets the profile to AdobeRGB - you can’t change it. The print is reasonably consistent with screen. If I let printer handle colours in AP, and set the printer profile to AdobeRGB, the print is again too saturated. Conclusion for me is probably just print from PSE rather than keep chewing through paper and ink trying to get a good result in AP. Useful link re HP printers: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/color-printing-issues-hp-envy-7640/m-p/9288304

Hi Stefan, no problem at all 😃 I'm currently going backwards. As I mentioned above, I've plugged another monitor in and found it's much more saturated than my Lenovo laptop screen. But then a tried an old laptop which roughly matches my newer one. I've tried playing with colour management in Windows but I'm not really getting anywhere - I'm trying to match laptop to the external monitor as that seems closer to what gets printed. So basically cal'ing one thing to another unknown - brilliant 😂 Not really having much joy. That said, the printer is still darker than the darkest screen and soft proofing not getting me anywhere. As you've said, I don't have anything in my options for an HP or any other printer. Interestingly, I did a cal on my monitor which got saved as an ICC profile - that did then appear in my soft proof / print list. Not sure where that got me though... StFoldex: Thanks for the comments. I'm using a test image from Digital Dog at the moment. As above, it comes out darker in print than either monitor. It's colour space is Colourmatch - so I've left it as that. I tried converting to sRGB but not a huge change. Assigning ICC sRGB profile kind of gets it closer but not really much. I get the gist but I'm not sure I fully understand fully what you're telling me... sorry.

Done lots more faffing on this. Progress so far: Plugging another monitor in, I find that the colours are much more saturated than on laptop screen. So, need to fix that. Also seems that the colour saturation between printing plain paper and glossy paper don’t match that well. Finally, it seems that while letting the app handle printer colour handling is generally good, unless you have a really good printer that has dedicated icc files etc, it’s probably better to let the printer handle colours. I’d be interested to hear thoughts on that?

Hi, thanks for the post and the video link! In the vid, he talks about selecting a proof profile specific to his Canon printer. In my proof profile list, I don't seem to have anything specific to my (HP) printer - or any other printer. The list is such as Agfa Swop, Coated FOGRAs, Euroscale, Japan coated etc - then various sRGB, Adobe RGB type stuff etc. Nothing that would relate to a home printer(?) Re printing - if I go into the print menu and properties for the printer, I can select plain / glossy papers, print quality etc in there. So, I guess it's just there where I pick paper - and where the ICC files get used? However, as with softproofing profiles, when I go to printer profile in the print menu under colour management, there's nothing relating to a home printer. I went for agfa Swop on both proof and print with perceptual rendering, colour handling performed by app. The soft proof seems to lighten the blacks but the printer darkens them.

Nice - I liked how you skewed the sky to match the perspective of the building. Thanks.

Hi Patrick, that’s great thanks! As I read more into my issue, I realised my question / post was far too wooly 🙂

I would have thought it’d make sense to be able to edit posts but I guess that’d open it up to confusion going forward if there are replies. Thanks for the responses.

Hi, I've posted a question on here but would like to edit it. I have edited it once but can no longer see how to edit or delete my post. How do I do this? Thanks.

Hi, When I go to print a photo on my HP Envy printer, the colours are far too dark / saturated. If I print from the windows photo app the colours are about right. I'm using Kodak glossy photo paper - pretty standard stuff I assume(?) - though right now I'm also trying plain paper to debug until I'm somewhere in the right ball park. What would be the recommended printer profile for a home printer with photo or plain papers? Lots of options but most seem to be aimed at professional printers rather than than home inkjet etc. Probably starting the obvious but I assume the soft proof settings should match the printer settings? Thanks very much!