Sempervivum Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 Hi there, I edited an image in Affinity Photo and the colors where fine without any adjustments, no white balance necessary, no HSL. However after exporting to jpg the colors are falsified, pale and cool. I read this thread: which is dealing with exactly the same issue but no solution. I tried one measure being recommended in that thread: Apply ICC profile sRGB, but this made things worse: The colors were wrong in the display of Affinity Photo itself either. This issue is different in the software I tried for viewing the jpg: Directory Opus and Irfan View wrong, Opera and MS Fotos fine. I encountered such issue never before and dealing with the subject "color profile" wasn't necessary before. How can I achieve that the colors in the jpg export are the same as in Affinity Photo? Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Ulrich I uploaded the file in question here: https://ulrichbangert.de/div/affinity/P8193510-DeNoiseAI-low-lightAnd4more_fused.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 21, 2023 Share Posted August 21, 2023 What Export settings did you use when creating your JPG file? Can you provide the JPG file, too? (It may be best to Zip the file so the forum software doesn't modify it at all.) Also, what are your Windows Display settings, specifically what color profile is specified for your monitor? 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sempervivum Posted August 21, 2023 Author Share Posted August 21, 2023 In the meantime I was able to fix this issue. The source of the image is Photomatix, an HDR software. My Camera is an Olympus OM-1. As the images were noisy I denoised them by use of Topaz Denoise AI. The color profile in Topaz for saving was set to "Preserve Source Profile". I assumed that I wouldn't do anything wrong when using this. However the support of Photomatix found out that the Profile is ProPhoto. Obviously this was left unchanged by Photomatix and Affinity. But in some viewing software this profile is not available which results in wrong colors. As I spent hours in optimizing this photo I converted the profile to sRGB in Affinity. For the future I intend to switch to sRGB from the beginning by setting this one in Topaz Denoise when saving. Best regards, Ulrich walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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