Flaw Pictures on Sreen

[flyaholic]

Hello!
I am working with Affinity Publisher 1.9 on Mac.
My problem: When I place images (previously edited in Affinity Photo) in the image frames of Publisher, they appear dull on the screen, as if in a haze!
I can't figure out how to change this.
It can't be that the images appear so flat in print as well
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get a clear display?D-EVHH in Photo.pdf

D-EVHH_in_Publisher.pdf

[Ray S.]

Have you checked which color-profiles the apps have used? To me it looks like the Photo-Version of your file is in an RGB-profile and the Publisher-Version use a CMYK-profile.

[flyaholic]

Hi Ray.
Thanks for your quick reply. But I think that this is not the problem.
I open the RGB JEPG from my Canon Ixus in Affinity Photo, convert it from RGB to CMYK, change it to 300 dpi, maybe make some enhancements and export it as a pdf.
Then I place it in Affinity Publisher. Now something strange happens! For about 2 seconds the image stays juicy and crisp and suddenly it gets this gray haze. Attached is a screenshot of an image before and after placing it in Publisher.
I am very new to Publisher. Maybe I have something wrong in the preferences. I have never experienced this "grayout" with QuarkXpress, from which I would like to switch to Publisher.
Sunny Greetings from Frankfurt/Germany
Mike

[Old Bruce]

This looks like you have a lower opacity on the picture or the Picture Frame (and therefore the picture inside it) Check your layers panel.

[flyaholic]

Hey Old Bruce!

It doesn't seem to be either. As you can see, the layers are set to 100% opacity.
The phenomenon - which I don't understand - is that when you open the document, the images appear clear and juicy, but after a few seconds they turn gray and stay that way! See the attached screenshot!

Mike

[firstdefence]

upload the afpub file for us to look at and/or the afphoto file so we can try opening that in Affinity Publisher.

You could also make a duplicate of the documents and cut them down by removing pages and upload that.

 

[Old Bruce]

It is obvious there is a problem but I think we would need to see one of the actual pictures and a copy of the publisher document. Could you make a copy of the document and remove everything except one page with one image and then post that image file and the one page Publisher file. The way I do this is to make a new folder and place the Publisher and Photo documents in there and then zip compress the folder. Use the Finder's Compress command.

An Aside: I think the few seconds delay in this display problem may be down to Publisher generating all the image data for all the pictures

[flyaholic]

7 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

upload the afpub file for us to look at and/or the afphoto file so we can try opening that in Affinity Publisher.

You could also make a duplicate of the documents and cut them down by removing pages and upload that.

 

Hello, here are 4 typical pages, grayed out.HazePictures.afpub

HazePictures.afpub.zip

[flyaholic]

24 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

upload the afpub file for us to look at and/or the afphoto file so we can try opening that in Affinity Publisher.

You could also make a duplicate of the documents and cut them down by removing pages and upload that.

 

Hello,

here are 2 Pages and the original Pictures exported out of Affinity Photo

Example.zip

[Old Bruce]

I think this has to do with your choice of PDF export  preset from Photo. 

Aside: Whenever I can I prefer to use TIFFs for photo images, and whenever I can I prefer to not use PDFs for anything except the final file to be sent to the printer (home or commercial).

[firstdefence]

When I open the Borkum.pdf in Preview it looks washed out briefly, then Preview applies a colour profile and the colours look better but when I open in PDF Expert it doesn't apply a profile and the image looks washed out.

[flyaholic]

Hello,
I found something that solves the problem, but without understanding why, anyway, it works. 😃

If I click twice on the placed pdf. and choose the option "Interpret" in "PDF passthrough", the image appears clear without any gray haze. (upper image)

If I click the placed pdf. twice and choose "Passthrough" option in "PDF Passthrough", then the image appears with gray haze. (bottom image)

I hope this will solve my problem and it will work in print. Or maybe it's just a "make shift" which touches up messy formatted images?

Many Thanks for your help! 👍👍👍

[Old Bruce]

Thanks for telling us your solution.

To avoid this sort of thing I recommend using TIFFs (or JPEGs or PNGs) for photos, and reserve the PDF for vector art. Seeing as you have Photo (at least I am assuming that due to the PDFs being generated by Photo in the Get Info Window on my Mac.) it should be a relative piece of cake.