Exported colors differences

[pszczyg]

Good day,

I tried to search for this issue with keywords "export, colors" but I haven't found anything. It seems strange, because I doubt only I have this issue. Please tell me what's wrong with my programs.

I have Lightroom, I import Canon RAW, do initial changes and select option "Edit in" Affinity Photo. Here I play with colors and finally I want to export as JPG file. After file is exported, the colors completely don't match the colors I see in Affinity. Please take a look at the attachment - I posted screen with photo opened in IrfanView and Affinity in the same time. Colors are just wrong! I haven't done any change in Affinity settings, it's fresh copy, version 1.9.0, please tell me what do I do wrong...

 

PS. I tried to export the same file in different formats - jpg, png, tiff. Then I changed viewer - from IrfanView to windows embedded, then I sent files to google cloud and opened using its viewer... Results are really strange for me. Different viewers shows different formats differently. All files were exported using default Affinity settings, so I think that maybe profiles are involved? Or something else? No idea, but I'm sure that graphic experts will immediately know what's going on. Hopefully...

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by pszczyg

[v_kyr]

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Irfan View sometimes displays colors differently than other graphics programs. You can correct this with plug-ins.

It happens that the free image editor Irfan View displays colors differently than other graphics programs or the preview in Windows Explorer. This is mostly due to the color profile, which can be embedded in Jpeg files. In the default setting, IrfanView ignores this information and uses the standard color space sRGB for the display.

However, if the image was created or edited in a program such as Photoshop or Affinity Photo, which can handle an extended color space, different color reproduction can result. To fix the problem, you need the free plug-in package for IrfanView. Download the software and install it in the folder of the image program. Open Irfan View and go to the “Options” menu and select “Settings”. Go to the section “Zoom / Color Management” and check the box in front of “Use color management, set color profile for display: (plug-in)”. Make sure that "Current monitor profile" is selected underneath and confirm the settings with "OK".

 

[pszczyg]

v_kyr, 

Thank you for the response. Your advice works, I had this plugin installed, but the checkbox was the key. Now JPG files are properly displayed in this program. 

But I still wonder, why, in general, avoid such problems? For example - I want to send photos from Affinity to friends and be sure that no matter what program they use, the photos are displayed correctly. Is there any way to assure this? I know that they may have different monitor, and the colors will be different - I cannot control that. But I'd like to control at least that all programs open photos exported by me in the same manner. Please tell me that it's possible

Now, unfortunately I don't know how to do this - please take a look at the screen from Google Drive in my previous post - JPG is displayed correctly, but TIFF and PNG are not

Best regards

Paweł

[v_kyr]

9 minutes ago, pszczyg said:

But I still wonder, why, in general, avoid such problems? For example - I want to send photos from Affinity to friends and be sure that no matter what program they use, the photos are displayed correctly. Is there any way to assure this? I know that they may have different monitor, and the colors will be different - I cannot control that. But I'd like to control at least that all programs open photos exported by me in the same manner. Please tell me that it's possible

Of course, just use overall and embedd for your in Affinity manipulated/altered and then exported photos the sRGB ICC profile in documents. The sRGB color space is the lowest common denominator among/between all sort of screen/display output devices (computer screens/displays, smartphones, tablets etc.). Meaning here, any screen/display device can usually handle the sRGB color space, it's the defacto common shared standard!

[pszczyg]

v_kyr

I wanted to test your solution before answer, and I did that. It works great, thank you very much for your assistance

Best regards,
Paweł