Random blurred adphoto file after loading

[Komatös]

Hi @Jon P 

I don't know if it's the same problem, but I have similar behaviour.  I have created and saved a composing in AFPhoto. All elements are embedded. I placed this document in a template document in Publisher.
Here the composing appears blurred and with a slight haze. This behaviour also occurs with exported formats.  In the Publisher, the colours look washed out somehow.

Affinity Photo

Affinity Publisher

[Old Bruce]

21 hours ago, Komatös said:

don't know if it's the same problem, but I have similar behaviour.  I have created and saved a composing in AFPhoto. All elements are embedded. I placed this document in a template document in Publisher.
Here the composing appears blurred and with a slight haze. This behaviour also occurs with exported formats.  In the Publisher, the colours look washed out somehow.

To my eye it appears as though the Photo document is RGB and the Publisher document is CMYK.

 

[Komatös]

Nope. Both the Photo document as also the Pulisher document are in RGB/8.

I have found that if I first create a new document from the template, then load the Photo document and copy the layers from the Photo docment and then paste it into the Publisher document, everything displays normally. Almost, because if you set the column help lines "filled" in the help lines, the fill color is added to the document.

[Jon P]

@Komatös Can you upload your afpub file with the embedded photo file here and I'll take a look

Thanks

[Komatös]

@Jon P Done!

Thanks too.

[Jon P]

@Komatös Do you have the original Affinity Photo file you embedded? Can you upload it to the above link?

I can see it looking blurred whilst embedded, but if I re-link that embedded afphoto file and open it in Affinity Photo it looks the same (not like your screenshot)

[Komatös]

@Jon P The Screenshot was taken from Photo persona.

[Jon P]

In Photo Persona it is looking blurred to me. The Affinity Photo file is also blurred for me when opening in Photo due to missing 4 linked resources. If you open this file again in Affinity Photo I assume all the linked resources are marked as "OK" and not blurry for you? If they are can you try embedding them and then re-placing the afphoto file in a Publisher document and letting me know if it's still blurry?

If it is can you re-upload the afphoto file with the embedded resources

Thanks

[Komatös]

Hi, I changed the font to avoid problems with missing fonts. Yes, after embedding all the elements in the photo file and replacing them in the Publisher document, the image is blurred.

Fairy_Tale_1_embedded.afphoto

[Old Bruce]

I have to say that regardless of which application I open the file in it looks the same. Like the first image in the first post.

[Jon P]

If I place the afphoto with everything embedded into your publisher document is looks vaguely washed out due to the column guides that are set.

If I disable those (View > Show Column Guides) it looks identical to it being open in Photo, so I believe it's just the guides giving it a washed out effect in that document. If I place that file into a new document it also looks fine

[Komatös]

I'll show you a short video,

 

[Old Bruce]

15 minutes ago, Komatös said:

I'll show you a short video,

This is my take on why the GUIDES are messing up the appearance.

[Komatös]

That is exactly the problem, all the layers become quasi translucent, which makes everything look faded. Black is no longer black but rather dark grey.

And if you can't use filled giudes, you can take it out of the programme altogether.

Well, nothing is perfect. I mean, mankind has been around for about 300 thousand years ... and we are still a long way from perfection 🤔

 

- Can be closed - Problem recognised and solution found. 

[Old Bruce]

Turn off the Column Guides. Or change the colour. I only use them to set up the master pages and occasionally to set up a page, then I turn them off because of this thing.

[Komatös]

The menus on the Mac look different from those on the PC. There is no "Show Column Guides" here, which I have to do via "Configure Guides". And changing colours also affects the levels.