CH Trippe

Thank you!  
 

The simplest solution is often the best. Letting color management do its magic --- that's  exactly what I want, basically, since I devote a lot of time to getting the images to look right on the screen. But I wanted to be sure I was doing as much as I could to achieve the best appearance for my book images.  I've noticed that it's usually in the dark areas of an image that they're  apparently "out of gamut,"  but as I said, they print to my satisfaction. Only if there's a marked color shift would I think I had a bigger issue. I don't use any Adobe apps --- just Affinity Photo, and it has worked very well for me. Finally, I understood how layers worked! 
You've been very informative and helpful. Thanks again!
 

Actually I  did find the ICC color profile they use on their website. It's GRACol200. It's not in Affinity's soft proof list even on V2.  Blurb has a video that shows how to install it on a Mac, but I had been  told in an earlier request  that Affinity doesn't  support this profile, although Photoshop does.  BookWright, their software, does have a soft proof option, and it works quite well --- colors in my books are accurate, but even though I make careful adjustments to my images (which are not actually photographs but multi- layered composites incorporating painted cutouts, fabric & various other objects with digital effects) I find that the printed images are slightly less brilliant than they appear on the screen.  
On a Mac you have to install the Blurb ICC color profile manually. I'm not sure how it then gets into Affinity, or if it will work.
Thanks for your response. I didn't see it earlier!
Caroline 

👍 It worked!  Thanks again, Murfee!

I have been using Affinity Photo pretty much since its inception, but only in the last couple years have I used it for more complex, layers compositions, so that I've gradually gotten to understand more of what it can do, and I love it.  I now use it nearly every day, so I have switched to V2, not because V1 didn't work very well for me, but because I don't want to miss out on future upgrades.  I will probably keep V1 just in case there are problems. I do understand that V2 documents won't open in V1, but if I were to create future documents in V1, I could work on them later in V2. It seems like a pretty good compromise. 
I don't yet know how much better V2 will be  than V1, for my purposes, but after using it for only a day or two,   since V2 JUST came out,  it would be difficult for me  to complain.  I do know that major upgrades sometimes change the appearance of things, which can be a bit disconcerting,  and that's something you have to get used to.Some  things do look different in V2 --- they are placed a bit differently, the icons are different, etc .A little  patience is required, and if you are really a dedicated user, you can figure it out. Or ask a question on the forum, or watch one of the many tutorials.  And real glitches do get fixed.
I have been using Affinity long enough (I don't consider myself an expert -- I'm somewhere in the "intermediate" category of user probably)  to be aware of how much better it has gotten over the years. So I am really looking forwarding to marching onwards with V2. 

I have been using Affinity Photo pretty much since its inception, but only in the last couple years have I used it for more complex, layers compositions, so that I've gradually gotten to understand more of what it can do, and I love it.  I now use it nearly every day, so I have switched to V2, not because V1 didn't work very well for me, but because I don't want to miss out on future upgrades.  I will probably keep V1 just in case there are problems. I do understand that V2 documents won't open in V1, but if I were to create future documents in V1, I could work on them later in V2. It seems like a pretty good compromise. 
I don't yet know how much better V2 will be  than V1, for my purposes, but after using it for only a day or two,   since V2 JUST came out,  it would be difficult for me  to complain.  I do know that major upgrades sometimes change the appearance of things, which can be a bit disconcerting,  and that's something you have to get used to.Some  things do look different in V2 --- they are placed a bit differently, the icons are different, etc .A little  patience is required, and if you are really a dedicated user, you can figure it out. Or ask a question on the forum, or watch one of the many tutorials.  And real glitches do get fixed.
I have been using Affinity long enough (I don't consider myself an expert -- I'm somewhere in the "intermediate" category of user probably)  to be aware of how much better it has gotten over the years. So I am really looking forwarding to marching onwards with V2. 

I have been using Affinity Photo pretty much since its inception, but only in the last couple years have I used it for more complex, layers compositions, so that I've gradually gotten to understand more of what it can do, and I love it.  I now use it nearly every day, so I have switched to V2, not because V1 didn't work very well for me, but because I don't want to miss out on future upgrades.  I will probably keep V1 just in case there are problems. I do understand that V2 documents won't open in V1, but if I were to create future documents in V1, I could work on them later in V2. It seems like a pretty good compromise. 
I don't yet know how much better V2 will be  than V1, for my purposes, but after using it for only a day or two,   since V2 JUST came out,  it would be difficult for me  to complain.  I do know that major upgrades sometimes change the appearance of things, which can be a bit disconcerting,  and that's something you have to get used to.Some  things do look different in V2 --- they are placed a bit differently, the icons are different, etc .A little  patience is required, and if you are really a dedicated user, you can figure it out. Or ask a question on the forum, or watch one of the many tutorials.  And real glitches do get fixed.
I have been using Affinity long enough (I don't consider myself an expert -- I'm somewhere in the "intermediate" category of user probably)  to be aware of how much better it has gotten over the years. So I am really looking forwarding to marching onwards with V2. 

I have been using Affinity Photo pretty much since its inception, but only in the last couple years have I used it for more complex, layers compositions, so that I've gradually gotten to understand more of what it can do, and I love it.  I now use it nearly every day, so I have switched to V2, not because V1 didn't work very well for me, but because I don't want to miss out on future upgrades.  I will probably keep V1 just in case there are problems. I do understand that V2 documents won't open in V1, but if I were to create future documents in V1, I could work on them later in V2. It seems like a pretty good compromise. 
I don't yet know how much better V2 will be  than V1, for my purposes, but after using it for only a day or two,   since V2 JUST came out,  it would be difficult for me  to complain.  I do know that major upgrades sometimes change the appearance of things, which can be a bit disconcerting,  and that's something you have to get used to.Some  things do look different in V2 --- they are placed a bit differently, the icons are different, etc .A little  patience is required, and if you are really a dedicated user, you can figure it out. Or ask a question on the forum, or watch one of the many tutorials.  And real glitches do get fixed.
I have been using Affinity long enough (I don't consider myself an expert -- I'm somewhere in the "intermediate" category of user probably)  to be aware of how much better it has gotten over the years. So I am really looking forwarding to marching onwards with V2. 

I have been using Affinity Photo pretty much since its inception, but only in the last couple years have I used it for more complex, layers compositions, so that I've gradually gotten to understand more of what it can do, and I love it.  I now use it nearly every day, so I have switched to V2, not because V1 didn't work very well for me, but because I don't want to miss out on future upgrades.  I will probably keep V1 just in case there are problems. I do understand that V2 documents won't open in V1, but if I were to create future documents in V1, I could work on them later in V2. It seems like a pretty good compromise. 
I don't yet know how much better V2 will be  than V1, for my purposes, but after using it for only a day or two,   since V2 JUST came out,  it would be difficult for me  to complain.  I do know that major upgrades sometimes change the appearance of things, which can be a bit disconcerting,  and that's something you have to get used to.Some  things do look different in V2 --- they are placed a bit differently, the icons are different, etc .A little  patience is required, and if you are really a dedicated user, you can figure it out. Or ask a question on the forum, or watch one of the many tutorials.  And real glitches do get fixed.
I have been using Affinity long enough (I don't consider myself an expert -- I'm somewhere in the "intermediate" category of user probably)  to be aware of how much better it has gotten over the years. So I am really looking forwarding to marching onwards with V2. 

Thank you, Walt!   I think at one point I was receiving notifications, but maybe not since I changed my email address over a year ago. Glad you reminded me.
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I have checked the FAQs and see that performance issues with Affinity Photo after installation of OS Monterey is a known issue and is being investigated,  but I wanted to say, for the record, that the two things I have had the most difficulty with occur when I am attempting to create a gradient or a color overlay in Layer Effects.  Previously, all I had to do to get the color selection to appear was to place the mouse arrow on the selection bar -- the colors would pop right up. Now it is extremely flukey --- I cannot tell precisely  where to place the mouse arrow as  it seems to vary every time I use it -- sometimes it just won't come up,   so this process has become fairly time-consuming and frustrating.    It does take Affinity Photo a bit longer to open, but  the spinning wheel is a minor annoyance compared to the problem of working with gradients and color overlays. I hope this issue can be resolved before too long. And I was having so much fun! 

Please Note: All of the issues mentioned below should be resolved by updating to macOS Monterey 12.1 or higher.
Due to code-signing changes in macOS Monterey, Affinity Apps can experience performance related issues such as spinning pinwheel (beach ball), lag or delayed operations. Below are a few examples that are affecting users:
Delayed app startup Panels such as Brushes, Macro, Styles etc... populating slowly and delays when scrolling Lag when using Channels Panel, especially with Pixel Selections Delay when selecting colours from the Fill Tool / Gradient Tool on the context toolbar Lag when browsing Presets in the Crop Tool This issue is logged with our developers and they're currently investigating.
As a workaround, some users have found that disabling Automatically Adjust Brightness under Apple > System Preferences > Displays reduces these delays.

Never mind!  I just did it. Signed in using my old email address, then went to my account and changed both the email and my password. I don't know why I couldn't figure out how to do this before. But anyhoo, now it's done. 

I thought I had used the selection brush before, with success---maybe once or twice---but today I could not get it to work. I had the image layer selected, and selected the  brush and dragged it over the part of the image I wanted to transform---but nothing happened!  I tried this on a couple different photos---nothing. What am I doing wrong? 
Thanks!
 

Got it! Thanks again.