Colours appearing more saturated in Affinity Photo

[hbuzz]

Hi there, 

 

I've recently purchased the software and am having issues when importing my files into AF2. I'm coming from PS and still have that license for a short time before hopefully discontinuing it. The issue I'm having is when I import my files into AF2, images are appearing much more saturated than when opening in PS they are as I expect.

I'm trying to break away from the previous software and am trying to implement a new workflow. I plan to use DarkTable for my RAW edits as this is a replacement for Camera Raw which I'm very used to. For now the develop persona isn't quite what I'm looking for. 

 

I'm exporting my TIFF files from DarkTable with the tagged profile Adobe RGB (compatible), I have also tried other formats & sRGB. When I open in PS, to my eyes the images are identical. When opening in AF, the image is far more saturated. 

 

I have tried searching the forum and tried this post, however I've still no luck. My monitor is calibrated with a Spyder.

 

Any help would really be appreciated. 

 

 

 

 

[RobWu]

How are you calibrating your monitors? That's the first thing to check I guess...
Ah, didn't read about the Spider... Do you use the Spider generated icm for your monitor(s)?

No idea tbh. For me both PS (oldie CS 5.5) and AF show me the same color.
But my monitors don't use the icm file, but store it internally.
Shouldn't matter that much I guess.

did find this one: 

 

[walt.farrell]

@hbuzz: Welcome to the Affinity forums. 

Can you share one of the affected TIFF files with us?

Can you show a screenshot of how it appears for you in Photoshop and how it appears in Photo?

Where you mentioned you use a Spyder: in the post you referenced it shows how to show/set the Windows Display profile. Please show us what Windows says for yours. Also, does it work if you change that to sRGB, instead of your Spyder profile?

[hbuzz]

Thanks RobWu,

 

Below are my settings for the Spyder and colour management on my system. As mentioned, the document in PS appears as I export it from DarkTable, however the same file in AF appears much more saturated. 

[hbuzz]

Thanks Walt, 

 

I've attached the tif & a screenshot of the difference.

 

Does this help?

IMG_8452.tif

[RobWu]

IN both applications, the histograms -and- my color picking on the same areas show exactly the same values.
Also they look the same side by side.

So assuming PS shows the correct image, something in your AP color settings is different from PS.

[hbuzz]

Update: No solution found unfortunately when comparing in the two programmes. 

[NathanC]

I've opened your .TIF in MacOS Preview (Left) Photo 2 (Middle) and Photoshop (Right) and the colour is consistent across all three and matches the more saturated version shown in Photo 2 on your screenshot when i'm comparing on my display. The colour space and profile has been consistently detected and applied as RGB/16 Adobe RGB (Compatible), so i'm not too sure at the moment provided this same bit depth and colour profile is consistent in both apps on your side.

Have you tried using just the standard ‘sRGB IEC61966-2.1’ profile under Colour Management > Devices instead of any of the calibrated profiles? You can change it by selecting the profile and then selecting 'Set as Default Profile' and then closing the dialog. I'd suggest rebooting in between changing this just to ensure the change commits.