Phil_rose Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Hi all, I have been a photographer and designer for 25 years and I still simply don't understand color pretty much at all. I export from Alien Skin Exposure and take a JPG into Publisher and it looks like the first screenshot. I then look at it in XNView and it looks like the second but the images as they came out of Exposure look right as in screenshot 3. What's going on? Are there any color resources for people for whom the topic makes their head hurt? Thanks for any help! Phil Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardMH Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I suspect XNView uses the color space embedded in the JPG. Affinity over rides this as whatever you've set it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 4 hours ago, Phil_rose said: Hi all, I have been a photographer and designer for 25 years and I still simply don't understand color pretty much at all. I export from Alien Skin Exposure and take a JPG into Publisher and it looks like the first screenshot. I then look at it in XNView and it looks like the second but the images as they came out of Exposure look right as in screenshot 3. What's going on? Are there any color resources for people for whom the topic makes their head hurt? Thanks for any help! Phil You don't need to read books for making this work! Here is some theory you need to read but do continue and read it afterwards perhaps: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/display-colour-management-in-the-affinity-apps/ To the point: Serif use the monitor profile that is installed and configured in Windows/OS X automatically (this profile tells programs how to display colors on your monitor) You need to configure XNView to use the same monitor profile In a professional setup you use a device to measure the actual colours that are displayed on your screen to generate a monitor profile. Do you by any chance have a wide gamut monitor? I hope this thread will help: Windows itself is NOT colour managed. Misery. Every single program needs to be colour managed. When one program is and another one isn't then viewing the same image in both programs results in different colors. You will get these wildly saturated colours on a wide gamut monitor when the program is not using the monitor profile. PSST assuming here that the profile installed in Windows is the correct one. Looks like it. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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