Erichi Posted November 11, 2022 Posted November 11, 2022 (edited) Hi, im faceing a weird Issue and i hope to find sone hints. The Affinity Suite on my Main screen all Color are perfect, My second screen has a slightly diffrent Gamut (Factory wise) in so i looks a little diffrent anyway. However that is not a Problem usually. So if i Swich my running software to the other screen there would be a slight (very little!!!!!) diffrence in Color. But in the Affinity Suite the following happens: For example. I created a Red box on my main Screen. Now i drag the Software to my second Screen. Now my Red box turned into a brownish box on my Scond screen BUT the Naviator on the Second screen shows me the Correct Red Box. If im at it all ready, i pull the Software back to the Main Screen. As long as i keep pressing my Mouse button the Box is Brown (on Main Screen!) As i release the Button the Box turns Red again. I tryed the same thing in Clip Studio, Art Rage and Krita. This happens only in Affinty suite. Any help would be greatly appreciated Edited November 11, 2022 by Erichi Quote
Erichi Posted November 12, 2022 Author Posted November 12, 2022 This might be a bug afterall... i didn't have much Time yesterday sorry. Here is a Screenshot... This doesnt happen in any other Programms. The Affinity Suite worked fine on both screens for awhile Yesterday. But after i had to restart it was broken again... I Screenshot Affinity Designer. Then edited it with Clip Studio ...... The Red/Yellow is off by a LOT ;_; Quote
cgidesign Posted November 13, 2022 Posted November 13, 2022 In case you are using Windows: It is just a guess but you might ran into a combination of two issues here. Root cause is the way Windows handles the display's ICC profiles, the other one is how Affinity "finds" those ICC profiles. In general APhoto and I think the other apps as well, color correct their screen output according to the ICC profile set in Windows for the specific display. When you move the APP or its document window from one display to the other Affinity is switching to the ICC profiles accordingly. This happens when you release the mouse. So your rectangle changes its color as intended. First potential issue: If you don't have a proper ICC profile for each display Affinity gets wrong information and displays "wrong" color. Second potential issue: Even if you have correct profiles Windows might fool you. The issue is, that in some cases Windows does a wrong identification of the displays. It happens to me especially with two monitors attached to a notebook. In that case I have three displays. All of them have a correct ICC profile. But sometimes Windows reads my main display as the notebook display and assigns the ICC profile of that one. Affinity is then color correcting with the wrong profile. Solution: Open "Color Management" in Windows (just type "color" in the search field - it will then offer the color management console). And now the complicated part: Once you have set everthing, Affinity should work as expected. But even the system panel might get messed up by Windows. Whenever I feel something is wrong with my colors, I check those profiles settings. Affinity limitation: The developers of most graphic software I use, have identified this Windows issue and implemented a feature to directly assing the profiles instead of reading the Windows Registry. Example Firefox: Affinity does not have this feature so checking the Windows Color Management is the way to go then. On the other hand Affinity has the profile switching feature which alot of other software does not have. E.g. Firefox can only correct with one ICC profile / display. If its window is on my BenQ, I get correct colors, but if I move it to the Huion they are a bit off because Firefox still uses the BenQ profile. In my case this is not a big issue because both displays are calibrated to match sRGB quite accurately. So, the final corrections in the profiles are not to much appart. Rudolphus, carl123, rvst and 1 other 4 Quote
Erichi Posted November 13, 2022 Author Posted November 13, 2022 Thank You! that fixed it. Yes im on Windows 11 i usually used i Pad only for Affinity. I still dont understand why the Affinity suite had so much of a Problem with it while other Progamms didn't. Anyway thanks!! 😀 Quote
cgidesign Posted March 14, 2023 Posted March 14, 2023 In case someone stumbles upon this old thread: My info about where A-Photo reads the icc profiles from was not fully accurate: My updated conclusion is for Affinity Photo 2.0.4: A. If "use my settings" in Windows color management is on, the profiles are read from "user settings" B. If "use my settings" in Windows color management is off, the profiles are read from "system settings" Quote
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