RishaS Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 Hello, I have a set of brand colours for our compamy and when I type in the RGB numbers the colour is totally different, and when I use the colour picker the colours look correct, however have a totally different set of RGB numbers. Quote
Staff Callum Posted November 18, 2021 Staff Posted November 18, 2021 Hi RishaS, Welcome to the forums Does your brand use a particular colour profile and is that profile applied to your document? If it is please could you provide an screen recording demonstrating this issue? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
MattyWS Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 This could be the difference because linear/gamma. Are you colour picking from images that are using sRGB or not? Quote
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 Hi, thanks for replying... I have added a screen shot. Quote
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 The RGB for the correct colour is different.. I used to use PagePlux X9 and the coloours were alwars correct in that... maybe I'm doing something wromg? Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 What is the color format/space of the document you're working on (RGB, CMYK)? And what is the color format/space of the document for this element from your screenshot, and where did it come from to get into your document? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 Hi Walt, all RGB. I added our company colour palette and that is also RGB. The other thing... the greys for example, when I go 50% or 75% the greys are much lighter than our brand greys. Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 OK. And what about the color profile? What profile is your document, and what profile is the document you got that document element from? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 Sorry, what do you mean by 'profile'... I was given the brand book (which is RGB) I don't work in CMYK because it's not printed. I am currently working on the company Christmas magazine ... previously I used Serif PagePlus X9 for this and never had an issue with colour matching via colour picker tool or adding in the RGB numbers. The colours are also correct in Photoshop. It's not a big deal to me because the colours are correct when I use the colour picker, more of an inconvenience and something I thought I should mention incaase its me doing something wrong. I am loving Affinity Publisher. If anyone can help with this issue I would be very grateful! Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 Just now, RishaS said: what do you mean by 'profile'... A document has a color space/format: RGB, CMYK. It has a color profile that describes how the colors look: sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhoto, and others for RGB. 1 minute ago, RishaS said: I was given the brand book What format is the book you were given? Is it physical, or digital? Where did that element that I showed from your document come from? Did you somehow pull it from your brand book? If so, how? Or did you create it in your document yourself (and if so, how)? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 The book is RGB (we are a virtual company so everything is digital) as I said earlier everything is RGB. There is no issue with the brand book or the 'RGB' colours as I said it is perfect in photoshop and in Serif Page Plus X9 .. they are not correct in Affinity Publisher. Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 15 minutes ago, RishaS said: The book is RGB RGB is only half of the answer. Everything also has a color profile. If the profile for the brand book and the profile for your document are different, the numbers will give different results. Again, if you provide some details of the format of your book (PDF, something else?) and how you got that chart into your document from the book, I can tell you how to look at things to tell. Without that, I can only suggest this: In your document, use the menu File > Document Setup, and look at the Color tab. This will give you the color format (presumably RGB) and the profile. If you can open the company book in Publisher, you can do the same thing. Otherwise, you will have to open the company book in some other application and look for the color format and profile information. Also relevant, the options you've chosen in your Publisher Preferences (Edit > Preferences), in the Color section, where you have settings for the default RGB color profile. And you have a setting for whether to convert documents that you Open so they use that profile. Also relevant, when using the color picker and for color display in general, is the color profile you have assigned to your monitor. This is a system setting for Display in Windows. Affinity applications will be converting your document colors so they display correctly on your display, based on that display profile. So there are, I think, at a minimum 3 profiles we need information about. RishaS 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 Ahhh! Now I understand... thank you so much, that seems to have sorted it! Quote
walt.farrell Posted November 18, 2021 Posted November 18, 2021 55 minutes ago, RishaS said: thank you so much, that seems to have sorted it! You're welcome. Can you tell us what you found, which might help us fine-tune our answers, and which might also help other users? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
RishaS Posted November 18, 2021 Author Posted November 18, 2021 Thanks walt... so I went into document set up as you suggested, and from there on the 'colour tab' i looked at colour format and there's different RGB settings.. I can't remember which RGB setting I had it on, but I played around, and the RGB/8 one seems to work well... I also changed Colour Profile to colour match RGB. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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