John North

HVBD Many thanks for your feedback and the image you returned is very close to correct. I will try and work directly with Affinity Photo but I just feel a bit frustrated at the color cast in each instance which I am seeing when I am simply importing in each app. I will however have a go at calibrating my IMAC monitor with Datacolor software as you have done. Are there settings in Affinity Exposure and Affinity Photo where I can select the calibration that the software should use in each instance? Thanks again John

Just to make sure I have repeated the process which is: The first image was imported from a camera SD card and has not ben modified in any way. I then exported it. The 2nd image was the first image but with auto applied which has made minimal change and then I exported again. The 3rd image was when I took the first image (from the SD card) via the "edit in affinity Photo 2" option from exposure X7, it then displayed as shown (in Affinity Photo 2) which I then simply exported as a jpg. I can understand the original colour cast as this was taken in a room with a warm LED ceiling light. I think the auto could not do much about it because there was no strong black or white for it to anchor to, but when it went into Affinity Photo 2 and this immediately changed the color, particularly the purple, this is what I do not understand.

Paul Thank you for taking a look. Below I have 3 images which are: 1. original image loaded into Exposure X7 2.original image with auto applied to get rid of colour cast (but close up I still see fringing in hair etc.) 3. Image when displayed via Affinity Photo 2 with no editing from being imported in via the edit option. I have then expoted it and resized to reduce file size for uploading. I should mention that the top being worn is actually pink so actually the 2nd image is closer to correct based on the top being worn but skin colour looks more corect in 3rd image and there is no perceived fringing in 3rd image. Appreciate you taking time to look at this. John

I constantly see purple fringing in my photos when uploaded into Exposure X7 which I struggle to remove using the defringe controls. However if I simply go from Exposure X7 and edit in Affinity Photo the fringing problem is not there without me even touching the photo. So I am not sure whether the original photo has a fringing problem or something in the upload has created it in exposure or affinity photo is cleverly correcting it on the way in when I invoke edit. I know this sounds odd but this is really what I am seeing!