reeldaniel Posted February 8, 2022 Posted February 8, 2022 Haven't used affinity in a while, opened it up to edit a photo and have encountered something I've never seen before. The program is showing all colors in grayscale. Please see attached. It doesn't matter which coloring method I use (wheel, CMYK, RGB, etc.), it is showing everything in grayscale. At least the CMYK one shows some colors, but when I select a color region (blue, in this case), I still get gray. Can anyone help me? I haven't changed anything with the software, or settings for this document. I updated to the newest version 1.10.4.1198, and that changed nothing. Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 8, 2022 Posted February 8, 2022 Odds are you have opened or made a Greyscale document. Go to Document > Convert Format/ICC Profile... and choose from the RGB or CMYK types. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
walt.farrell Posted February 8, 2022 Posted February 8, 2022 What color format is the document you're working on? It sounds like it might be grayscale, rather than color. 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 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted February 8, 2022 Posted February 8, 2022 My guess is your document is using either the Grey/8 or Brey/16 color format. Try opening Document > Convert Format / ICC Profile & see what it shows. EDIT: @walt.farrell beat me to it! Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
reeldaniel Posted February 9, 2022 Author Posted February 9, 2022 On 2/8/2022 at 12:53 PM, Old Bruce said: Odds are you have opened or made a Greyscale document. Go to Document > Convert Format/ICC Profile... and choose from the RGB or CMYK types. Thanks! This did it. No earthly idea how that happened. Quote
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