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Wow. That absolutely fixed it! Thank you so much 😀

I have no idea how it switched automatically tbh.  My guess would be that I use a laptop so I feel like when I opened Affinity I had a game or graphics heavy operation in the background so my NVIDIA card was working, and when I left the game and then opened Affinity it had switched back to integrated graphics which I don't think had ever been set up properly. (The Windows Photos app had a similar issue since I got the laptop 3 years ago, that I tried to fix at the time and then forgot about, but as Affinity showed stock photos and margin line colours accurately I didn't link the two - it also makes sense as it was on an ASUS specific profile and not sRGB).

I'm no expert but that may explain why sometimes Affinity work occasionally but mostly have this issue.

I've attached a screenshot of the colour management screen for your curiosity.

Again thank you so much (and thank you to Hangman for also helping).

 

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Hi,

Thanks again for the replies.

 

Dan C - I've attached the affinity assets to the post. They were all created different colours and then changed colour simultaneously when this problem happened. I did check these by saving/exporting a document with them on and they appeared perfectly normal colour-wise when opened in other applications. I've also attached a picture  zoomed in a bit more, the top one is how it looks on an RGB/CMYK document, the bottom one is how it looks on a greyscale document.

 

Hangman - I did as you suggested but it didn't change anything. I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the app. Colours in all other programs are displaying normally. I also don't have the other 2 apps, I only needed Publisher for now although I suspect I would have the same problem in them as well.

 

After playing about a bit it appears that Stock photos appear normal in the sidebar until I drag them onto the document when their colour changes. However it's definitely a CMYK document I'm dragging them onto.

 

Thanks again for the help

 

 

 

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[Asset, colour palette and objects all black]

Hi thank you for such a quick reply,

All of my assets are various colours, although mostly browns, beiges and reds. Changing the asset background didn't work.

I open all my documents in CMYK but just tried all of the other options without success.

If you zoom in enough on the swatches panel in the top right of the picture I shared you can see the colours are there just massively darkened.

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Very very very new to using Affinity so appreciate if this is a dumb question.

As you can see in the picture all assets, colour palettes and objects are black/very very dark.

It affects all assets, colour palettes, everything. I didn't do anything to make it this way that I'm aware of it just kind of did it.

Not sure how this happened or how to correct it, it's only my second time using Affinity and it also happened the first time I used it, I corrected it except I can't remember how.