west1849 Posted March 29, 2022 Posted March 29, 2022 Mac 11.6.4, Affinity Publisher 1.10.1. PNG image, the colors are not coming true. On the right hand side of the picture is the original, the left is what it looks like in Affinity. I've tried everything I can think of. Got any ideas? Quote
smadell Posted March 29, 2022 Posted March 29, 2022 Best guess - this is a color space issue. Your original image was probably created in a larger color space (like ProPhoto or Adobe RGB) and is getting mapped to a smaller space, like sRGB. Try choosing Assign Color Profile (NOT Convert) and choose the larger space. Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023); 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 18
smadell Posted March 29, 2022 Posted March 29, 2022 Actually, I misunderstood which picture was which. If your picture is getting more saturated (not less) then it’s getting assigned to a larger color space. Try assigning it to the larger space to get back the more muted colors. Sorry for the confusion… Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023); 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 18
carl123 Posted March 29, 2022 Posted March 29, 2022 2 hours ago, west1849 said: On the right hand side of the picture is the original, the left is what it looks like in Affinity. I think I'm right in saying I'm confused or is that left? Can you upload the original image so we can see what we get and provide a possible resolution? emmrecs01 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
walt.farrell Posted March 29, 2022 Posted March 29, 2022 I'd like to see both the original and the current working file, because that Layers panel shows some complex layering, and there are several possibilities for what might be happening, I think, with layer blending modes, depending on what those various layers really are. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
west1849 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Posted March 29, 2022 So your comments got me thinking, and I stripped off EVERY thing I could and it still has the same "muted" colors. So there is got to be (my thinking) something wrong with the image file itself or I got something clicked on or off that I am not aware of. So here is the original image and the pub file. June.2022.afpub Quote
Dazmondo77 Posted March 29, 2022 Posted March 29, 2022 Your document is set up CMYK 'US SWOP COATED' profile, you won't achieve those colours in CMYK, you'll need to change to RGB colour space to get what you want - although, if it's gonna be printed via a print shop you'll see some colour shift similar to what you where getting with 'Swop coated' - I usually work in CMYK as most of my stuff is designed for CMYK four colour process print, so the original (not what you wanted) looks a decent enough match to what you'd expect to be printed commercially - although you'll get slightly better results printing digitally. if it's just destined for web or online viewing - or printed on a photo-inkjet you'll get results more inline with what you want. Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 2.2.0 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.6, Sonoma 14.7.3 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.6.2 Betas 2.6. www.bingercreative.co.uk
west1849 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Posted March 29, 2022 LOL, I knew it was going to be something like that. A while back I did book cover in CMYK and apparently some of the settings floated over and I never checked it. Thank you very much. Quote
west1849 Posted March 29, 2022 Author Posted March 29, 2022 Just now, west1849 said: LOL, I knew it was going to be something like that. A while back I did book cover in CMYK and apparently some of the settings floated over and I never checked it. Thank you very much. Yes, the end product (Breadstone Community) is a online digital magazine on Issuu. So RGB is what everybody is working with. Quote
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