Interoperability with datacolor products

[RickyO]

As is commonly known, syncing colors in graphics work can be challenging.  To the end of wanting as accurate as possible color reproduction, we have tried a few products.  Some of which are from datacolor.com.

I recently inquired of them is their Spyder Checkr Photo product was compatible with Affinity products, given their ongoing support of Adobe products.

In overview, they do not support Affinity products.  As they stated:

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The SpyderCHECKR creates a HSL based user defined setting in the host application.
Therefore, the host application must offer a very comprehensive HSL slider adjustment and the ability to create such a setting from an external application.
This can be done in Adobe camera RAW (from Photoshop CS3 and higher), in Adobe Lightroom Classic (from Adobe Lightroom 2 and higher) and in Phocus from Hasselblad (version 2.8 and higher - this is a free of charge product).
In addition, the SpyderCHECKR is compatible with Blackmagic Davinci Resolve (version 11 and higher).
 
Unfortunately Affinity Photo does not offer these abilities here. Therefore, we can not support Affinity Photo by the SpyderCHECKR at this time.
Maybe you can use Phocus from Hasselblad as a step in between as it supports a DNG image workflow.

Might be something you may want to look into; or, if you are aware of other competing products (to datacolor), would really like to know about them.  Specifically, it was their Spyder Checkr Photo product I was interested in.

Thanks.

 

 

[De Villiers Photography]

It would be good to see if this could be integrated to accept the colour profiles to ensure suitable calibration

Spyder-Checkrs-User-Guide-FINAL-EN.pdf

[RickyO]

Given the time and exense to try it, I'll pass.  There must be other products out there which have already been designed and tested to work with Affinity.  Without such certification, one would always be wondering, "does it" or "doesn't it".....

[NotMyFault]

None of those software support Affinity Photo.

Never the less, it seems easy for me to create a LUT by infer LUT from two images (the test chart, and a photograph of test chart) which mimics the functionality without any additional software.

You may need to preprocess the photo e.g. average colors across the color tiles and carefully lens correction incl. vignette removal, and align both images (stacking). if someone can provide a Affinity Photo document containing both images (RAW embedded) I can try it.

[RickyO]

But you still don't have any confirmed standard to compare it to.  That's what correction is all about.

Thanks,

[NotMyFault]

1 hour ago, RickyO said:

But you still don't have any confirmed standard to compare it to.  That's what correction is all about.

Thanks,

If you have the color test charts, this is the reference.

the test chart has a color with defined RGB values in digital and physical form. You take a photo of the chart. The files shows Other RGB values. You create a LUT derived from both images (the photo of physical test chart, and the digital image with defined color values).