DarkClown Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 I'm struggeling a bit with ICC Profiles for the softproof. I got an ICC profile fom my printing company and want to recheck color on my (calibrated) Monitor. But the ICC profile providesd does not show up in the list of availale ICC profiles in the softproof dialog. The file is located in the standard windows ICC folder C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color. But Affinity doesnt show it. Is there another place I need to install it into? I guess it's a probnlem between my ears ... but can't see the solution right now. Thanks for yourt help Timo Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
lphilpot Posted July 9, 2023 Posted July 9, 2023 Copy it to %userprofile%\.affinity\Photo\2.0\profiles for the EXE installer. It'll need to be in the same relative location for the MSIX installer, but since I've not used that since the EXE was made available I don't recall the exact path for sandboxed apps. Or, installing the profile using the OS mechanism (not simply copying it the system location)* will also make it available to AP, but will additionally make it available to other profile-aware applications as well. IIRC you'll need to restart Photo if it's already running. * Settings app | search for and run Color Management | click Add... | click Browse... | etc. Quote Len Affinity Photo 2 | QCAD 3 | FastStone | SpyderX Pro | FOSS: ART darktable XnView RawTherapee Inkscape G'MIC LibreOffice Windows 11 on a 16 GB, Ryzen 5700 8-core laptop with a cheesy little embedded AMD GPU Canon T8i / 850D | Canon EF 24-70mm F4L IS USM | Canon EF 70-200mm F4 L USM | Rikenon P 50mm f/1.7 | K&F Concept Nano-X filters ...desperately looking for landscapes in Nolandscapeland Flickr
DarkClown Posted July 10, 2023 Author Posted July 10, 2023 Thanks for the information. It worked out fine after I copied the profile into the "profiles" folder (I'm using the EXE installation as well) ... I wish the procedure would have been described more clearly. Interestingly the standard OS profile installation (right click on the ICC file and selecting "install" from the popup) does not make the profile available for Affinity (That's what I tried before opening this topic here). The new profile shows up as installed in the windows color management - but does not show up in Affinity. Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
walt.farrell Posted July 11, 2023 Posted July 11, 2023 On 7/10/2023 at 8:07 AM, DarkClown said: Thanks for the information. It worked out fine after I copied the profile into the "profiles" folder (I'm using the EXE installation as well) ... I wish the procedure would have been described more clearly. If you're using Photo, File > Import ICC Profile should work. DarkClown 1 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
DarkClown Posted July 12, 2023 Author Posted July 12, 2023 7 hours ago, walt.farrell said: If you're using Photo, File > Import ICC Profile should work. Stupid me ... should have tried that before (wasn't aware theres an import function for it) ... Thx ... pretty sure that does the job! walt.farrell 1 Quote i7-12700KF, 3.60 GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070, Wacom Intuos 4 Tablet, Windows 11 Pro - AP, AD and APublisher V1 and V2https://www.timobierbaum.com
Grant Robertson Posted July 14, 2023 Posted July 14, 2023 On 7/11/2023 at 1:41 PM, walt.farrell said: If you're using Photo, File > Import ICC Profile should work. Does that simply copy the profile file to the folder that One's particular edition of Affinity Photo expects it to be? Or does that add the profile to some database in some nonstandard way? I ask because far too often developers like to reinvent every wheel. Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 15, 2023 Posted July 15, 2023 40 minutes ago, Grant Robertson said: Does that simply copy the profile file to the folder that One's particular edition of Affinity Photo expects it to be? Just for the application as far as I know. 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
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