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Hi all,
 
My first post - purchased Affinity Photo last week to help me with a photo project from lockdown. Over a three day period during lockdown I set up my camera on a tripod in the corner of the kitchen pointed at the kitchen table - which became the main hub of the house. With my wife working from home and the kids homeschooling (me in the teacher roll). Having taken 480 photos, I condensed them down to 23 and have created an image showing the good the bad and the ugly of lockdown, layering them all up and playing with the opacity in AP. I want to get it printed in A2, so I am trying to print it smaller to check levels etc, before I pay for it printing the size I want it in.
 
Once finished creating the image, I tried to print it on our cheap printer and it came out very dark when compared to my laptop monitor (which is uncalabrated). So I tried sending it to a more pro lab and it came back even darker. 
 
I realised the labs want the colour profile of images to be in sRGB, so I have played with the image and realised it was not in sRGB colour profile - so I changed it to an sRGB colour profile and exported a flattened version - this came out mega bright and not natural. Having sent it off, it printed marginally better than it showed on my screen, but still not right. Then I tried moving the original file (in whatever colour space that was) into an old version of Adobe Lightroom (5) I have - then exported it from there as sRGB… this time its printed on my printer darker, but better - but too dark. My laptop monitor is not calibrated, but the image looks good on my MacBook, iPad Pro and my iMac screens… but not when printed
 
I am pulling my hair out and wondered if anyone can help me - what I am wrong, or what I should be doing to get it sorted?
 
Many Thanks,
Tim

 

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