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Youtube has a REC709 color space. So....

If I'm working on pictures inside of Affinity Photo and i'm planning to use them on Youtube.....

should the "color profile" (or working space) in Affinity Photo be set to rec709? 

 

I calibrated my monitor to rec709 and now Affinity Photo is giving me the option to select this rec709 calibration as the "color profile" inside of Affinity. Should i use it?

And i also set this calibration to be the default inside of "windows color management".

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38 minutes ago, Lamont1 said:

I calibrated my monitor to rec709 and now Affinity Photo is giving me the option to select this rec709 calibration as the "color profile" inside of Affinity. Should i use it?

No - "this" calibration profile is intended only for monitor (ICC profile for monitor in OS), not for document in Affinity. Use the generic rec709 ICC profile.

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3 hours ago, Lamont1 said:

Youtube has a REC709 color space. So....

If I'm working on pictures inside of Affinity Photo and i'm planning to use them on Youtube.....

should the "color profile" (or working space) in Affinity Photo be set to rec709? 

 

I calibrated my monitor to rec709 and now Affinity Photo is giving me the option to select this rec709 calibration as the "color profile" inside of Affinity. Should i use it?

And i also set this calibration to be the default inside of "windows color management".

Hi @Lamont1,

Firstly, any bespoke profile created with profiling software should only be used at the OS level. Using this bespoke profile as your document profile will effectively negate any colour management, and could cause inaccuracies for non-colour-managed software. For your document profile, stay in sRGB or whichever profile you are using.

Presumably you will be editing your images into a video format using editing software, in which case this should be doing the colour management between your image's colour space (e.g. sRGB, Adobe RGB) and your video colour space (Rec.709, Rec.2020 etc). Any differences converting from sRGB to Rec.709 should be negligible.

In summary, if you are working in a colour space wider than sRGB, you may want to try converting to sRGB during export (or use Document>Flatten and convert manually). It will somewhat depend on the editor you're using, and how they have implemented colour management.

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