uli123 Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Hi, I'm coming from Corel where we have a huge number of color palettes especially CMYK colors. So when I click in a print design on the black color I get the 0/0/0/100 color and the full red color is 0/100/100/0. In Affinity programs I don't have such pallets, only a few ugly HSL colors (without clear gray tones, see attached file). But I din't knew that. So now I have had layouted 40 pages and all the black and gray colors are like 84/84/78/99 (see attached file). Is there a way to work with "pure" CMYK, where a yellow is a pure yellow for example? And why works Affinity like this, even when I use CMYK in the "create new template"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 You can set up your CMYK palettes as you like. Create a CMYK document, thren create a new palette name it and add CMYk colours to it. If you want to re-use this palette, make it a default palette for CMYK. If you look a the small hamburger menu of the Swatches palette there are some options hidden behind. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Also, for CMYK gray and black, from your screenshot: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli123 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Thank you, Joachim and Walt, so the answer to my question "Is there a way to work with "pure" CMYK?" is more a "no", all colors are HLS. Of cause I can build palettes, but to build palettes with HUNDREDS of colors is a little bit ... laborious 😞 BTW: In the picture you see a small (!) part of palettes which come with Corel. Each palette folder have dozens/hundrets of colors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli123 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Just started with a simple white in cmyk and after changing it from RGB to cmyk (see picture) it is still RGB in the palette 😞 The simplest things are very, very complicated. I begin to hate Affinity software .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uli123 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 And suddenly my CMYK red color is converted into HSL... And what is this: The values next to the cmyk sliders are different to the other values ... ARRRRHHHHHH I HAVE TO DO MY JOB!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 25 minutes ago, uli123 said: And what is this: The values next to the cmyk sliders are different to the other values ... ARRRRHHHHHH This is a usability issue - one of many - in Affinity. Inconsistent layouts or/and missing feedback. Sliders above (47) shows 8-bit values - fields below (18) percentage. In the color panel you can select 8-bit or percent as a display unit - if you know where to look that is. Some labels or tool tips would help at least. uli123 and sbe 2 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...
uli123 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Ok, got it. It was in Percentage But in my case the sliders remain in 8-bit values. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 10 minutes ago, uli123 said: Ok, got it. It was in Percentage But in my case the sliders remain in 8-bit values. Try to keep it in percentage and see what happens. My color chooser suddenly changed to percentage as well after I changed the unit to percent. But not immediately. 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...
uli123 Posted March 1, 2021 Author Share Posted March 1, 2021 Mmm, not mine 😞 But thanks! Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 5 hours ago, uli123 said: Mmm, not mine 😞 But thanks! Still? Now both dialogs are showing CMYK values in percent on this machine and 8-bit if I select that. Instantly (have to hide and show the dialog without the option first of course). 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...
deebz Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 16 hours ago, Jowday said: This is a usability issue - one of many - in Affinity. Inconsistent layouts or/and missing feedback. But shhh don’t mention/criticise anything about UX/UI on here.... you’ll get the “windmills don’t work that way” defence! For me the UX/UI is really letting the software down. It’s a quality issue - details matter. I wish they’d prioritise the UX and bug fixing before releasing new functionality. loukash and Jowday 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deebz Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 On topic... why publisher doesn’t default CMYK documents to a default set of CMYK colours is a mystery. I created and shared my own here NotMyFault 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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