Difference between develop and photo persona

[jurand]

Hello everyone.
I have a question about what I'm doing wrong. I develop RAW files and I already have photos in Develop Persona that I am happy with, then when I press "Develop" my image looks completely different - it is much brighter.

Do you have any idea what to do or maybe there is a tutorial about it?

Thank you in advance
Jurand

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[John Rostron]

@jurand, I have not seen anything like you seem to be getting. It would help if you could give more information:

• what camera did you use?
• what is your operating system/platform (MacOS / Windows...)?
• what version of Affinity Photo?
• are you using hardware accelleration?

John

[jurand]

Hi, I am currently at work where I have an older version 1.10.6.1665 installed. Works on Windows 8/64 bit server, without hardware acceleration. The files come from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF6.

Attached is the original file.

Regards

Jurand

P1240024.RW2

[v_kyr]

I can't reproduce that under macOS, I assume something (a setting) has probably altered the brightness in Pixel Persona!

1) Here's the original RAW when opened in Develop Persona with nothing (no settings) applied ...

 

2) in Develop Persona altered the RAW, made it darker in brightness ...

 

3) Taking over (develop) the RAW and how it looks then in Photo Persona ...

 

So all works and looks like expected here for me!

[John Rostron]

Same for me. I reduced the exposure by 1.3 stops before developing, and the developed Photo image was just like the adjusted RAW image.

John

[jurand]

OK, I'll try it at home on V2 and see what happens.
Anyway, thank you!

[Dan C]

Hi @jurand,

Sorry to hear you're having trouble!

Please open your RAW image in Affinity Photo V1 and then navigate to the 32Bit Preview Studio (32P in the bottom right of the app) - here I believe you currently have Display Transform set to Unmanaged, changing this to ICC Display Transform should display the image with similar tones in the Develop & Photo persona once developed.

I hope this helps  

[jurand]

Thank you for your answer, unfortunately this is not it. I have ICC Display Transform checked. If I check "unmanaged", it doesn't change anything either.

[lepr]

3 hours ago, jurand said:

Thank you for your answer, unfortunately this is not it. I have ICC Display Transform checked. If I check "unmanaged", it doesn't change anything either.

In that case, there is a failure of the ICC Display Transform. I remember at least one report of that on a Windows computer a few years ago.

If the ICC Display Transform was working you'd see a big difference with it enabled versus disabled. If it was working, the view of the 32 bpc linear image in Develop Persona would appear brighter and match the view of the 16 bpc gamma encoded image in Photo Persona.

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, jurand said:

Thank you for your answer, unfortunately this is not it. I have ICC Display Transform checked. If I check "unmanaged", it doesn't change anything either.

Just a thought, are you restarting the application after making those changes?

[Dan C]

3 hours ago, jurand said:

Thank you for your answer, unfortunately this is not it. I have ICC Display Transform checked. If I check "unmanaged", it doesn't change anything either.

Thanks for confirming that for me - can you please open the Affinity app and navigate to Edit > Preferences > Colour and provide a screenshot of your settings here for me?

As when I have your RAW file open and Unmanaged enabled, I see the RAW file as displayed in your first screenshot. Changing this to Display Transform then displays the image as you're seeing after developing - 

I can see your RAW image is open as 32bit in the Develop Persona and 16bit in the Photo Persona once developed, so it's certainly appears to be some issue with your current 32bit Colour/preview settings.

5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Just a thought, are you restarting the application after making those changes?

The 32-bit Preview Panel makes live changes to your canvas view and shouldn't require restarting between changing settings