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Thanks for these further contributions.

As suggested, I downloaded Affinity Design.  Same green problem occurred.  So, as my wife's computer has the same monitor as I do, and runs the same OS, I thought I'd download Affinity onto her machine.  It worked!  However, that didn't really prove very much as although she has the same hardware her settings and software is of course different.  I did note, however, that her monitors colour profile was not the same as mine (it was in fact blank!)

So, better late than never, I took up Walt's suggestion, which followed on from what Jimmy Jack and others had said, and found that if I clicked Add in the colour management screen I did indeed get a list of profiles and sRGBIEC6 1966-2.1 was one of them. So I added that, set it as the default, and Eureka, IT WORKS!

Thanks, everyone, you've been really helpful - without you I would never have solved this.  Now I've just got to decide whether or not i really want to buy Affinity!  Some intensive testing awaits in the relatively short time I have remaining with the trial version.

DT

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Thanks everyone.  In view of what you say I've reinstalled Affinity again.  The problem persists....

Dealinf first with my monitor's colour profile, I have looked at dispaly settings and the only colour profile it appears to have is its default one, LGIPS224, ie the model of the monitor.  There is provision to add or delete profiles, but no others are shown and I don't know enough (anything) about profiles to add something different.

Otherwise it seems clear that I don't have some of the colour channels.  Below I've pasted a couple of screenshots showing the colours that I have to play with on Affinity.  I there any way I can try to add the missing channels?

DT

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Well, as there were no further suggestions here, I uninstalled Affinity and deleted the downloaded exe file.  I then downloaded it again (trial version 1.6.4.104) from the Affinity website using a different browser and installed it on a different hard drive.  As a long time user of Serif products I really did hope that it was going to work this time, but sadly that didn't happen; once again the photos I loaded from my hard drive appeared green.

It therefore appears that Affinity is not for me, or at least for my computer (running Windows 7 64 bit) and I feel that I can do nothing other than delete it again and go back to using PhotoPlus, which is in fact more than adequate for most of what I want to do, although there were some appliocations in Affinity that i did rather covet.  So disappointing, but not the end of the world.

DT

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Many thanks for helping out on this.  Unfortunately, the colour profiles appear to be as they should be, ie sRGB, and the profile on the Document menu is also sRGB.  The assigned ICC profile is sRGB IEC61966-2.1. (which is what is in the Preferences Colour Tab)

DT

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Just as an addition to the above, it seems that everything in my Affinity is coloured in greens and blues.  If I want to use the paintbrush, for example, and try to choose a colour, I am limited to greens and blues (and black). In RGB, 0/0/0 is black, 106/106/106 is blue, and then there are various other hues of blue and green until 255/255/255, which is green.  Trying to convert the picture to black and white merely changes the blue to green but when I export it and view it in PhotoPlus the exported image has indeed been converted to black and white.

DT

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I'm afraid I don't really understand what a monitor colour profile is.  I have never applied one and the monitor works perfectly as far as I can see.  It's an LG IPS224 22" LED, connected via HDMI.

My graphics card is an AMD Radeon 6450 1024 Mb.

I had never experienced this green picture thing until I tried Affinity.  I do note that there have been a couple of similar questions to this previously on the forum but neiuther seems to have been resolved.  I wonder if I should just uninstall Affinity and then reinstall it, though I'm worried that that would prevent me continuing with the trial period.

I should perhaps add that if I work on a "green" image (crop it in this case), and then export it from Affinity as a new image and then view it on PhotoPlus, the new image is correctly coloured (although not on Affinity!)

DT

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File sent, thanks.  I should say that the same thing happens to every image file I've tried, but they revert to normal if they're then exported!.

DT

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I'm using the free trial version of Affinity Photo on Windows 7. Every time I try to open a photo from my files, whether jpg, gif, or png, it displays in a lurid green colour.  How do I get it to appear as it should?  This does not happen with any other programmes - up until now, for example, I've been using Serif PhotoPlus quite happily but thought I'd give Affinity a try.