over saturated raw file

[Rainon]

Hi. I have started to edit a photo in affinity 2 in develop persona. the colours are are never exactly as they are viewed from camera in faststone, but these ones seem particularly saturated. Do you have any ideas please.  I have been on the assistant and removed apply tone curve. (though on affinity 2 when I turn it on nothing happens)

the files are from a fuji xt3.

many thanks

chris

*I am also having trouble with the new affinity in that I cannot seem to get it to appear in my downloads.

Windows photo viewer saturates my images and that's how they appear in affinity. So I have been using faststone. But now I can't open affinity(v2) from faststone, so I copy and paste to desktop and open from there. To the results below. When I began this years ago with v1 all was fine then for some reason Windows photo viewer would show my images as taken for a few seconds, then they would switch to over saturated. 

I'm completely confused 

Hope you can help 😁👍

 

 

 

Edited January 30, 2023 by Rainon
Put a footnote in as this may be part of the problem.

[Lee D]

It may be a case of it's how the RAW engine we use is reading the image data. Is any kind of shoot/colour profile set in the camera as some RAW engines don't support them and may explain why Windows viewer switches.

Expand on what you mean by showing in Downloads as this folder is for items downloaded using your browser. So yes the app should so there when you download it but after installing the downloaded file can be deleted.

If you're wanting to use Affinity Photo 2 as an external editor from another app and you're using the original MSIX installer. You may run into some issues due to how MSIX apps install into Windows. It may be better for you to uninstall the current version and then follow the steps in this FAQ article to download the MSI/EXE version instead and install.

 

[Rainon]

hi thanks for getting back to me.

I do use a very flat profile when taking photos, I notice that there isn't such a big difference between faststone preview and v2 develop mode preview when using an image with less dynamic range.

I have installed the mis/exe version and the results are the same, but the file appears in the downloads list now as v1 did. I still have to copy and paste image to desktop before opening it though. can you what this msg means please? it appears when i try to upload image to affinity.

many thanks

Chris R  👍 

[walt.farrell]

When you configured Faststone to use Photo 2 as an external editor, you pointed it to the installer instead of pointing it to the installed file. You need to run the installer to install the program, then reconfigure Faststone to point to the installed version (in C:\Program Files\Affinity\Photo 2 or wherever you installed it).