brenbiz Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 (edited) I am new to Affinity Photo 2 and am using the free TRIAL offer. My 1st hurdle is when I export to a folder the colour change when opening with Windows Photo Viewer is horrendous. So can you please let me know what needs to be changes. I don't have this issue with CS6, Luminar Neo or ON 1 Photo RAW.. I have inserted both the photo I edited and the "Colour" settings so you can see what my settings are. So how do I fix this issue Edited September 12 by brenbiz Adding another ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Hi @brenbiz and welcome to the forums, 24 minutes ago, brenbiz said: My 1st hurdle is when I export to a folder the colour change when opening with Windows Photo Viewer is horrendous. This is likely because Windows Photo Viewer and its successor Photos are not colour-managed apps, unlike Affinity Photo which is... This means images viewed in the two Windows apps use sRGB. The image you've edited in Affinity Photo uses the Adobe RGB Colour profile which can display a wider range of colours and means when your image is displayed in Windows Photo Viewer some of the colours in your image will be compressed and look visually different... Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenbiz Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 Thanks, although your explanations tell me why, it doesn't tell me how to fix the issue. I tried to see if I could change the colour settings but as you can see in my posted image those are the RGB settings available to me. There is no sRGB in either of the top 2 windows. Also what photo viewer do others use who work on a W11 computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 2 hours ago, brenbiz said: I tried to see if I could change the colour settings but as you can see in my posted image those are the RGB settings available to me. There is no sRGB in either of the top 2 windows. In your Settings display, click on the Adobe RGB (1998) field to the right of the RGB Color Profile label to see the various available profiles, one of which should be sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or the like. However, this just sets the default for use in new documents, as explained here. So for your existing documents you could use the Document > Convert Format/ICC Profile menu item to convert the document to that profile. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef71 Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 I don't use the export persona much but it's proabably same as file - export here I get a menu where I can change size, color settings etc., this is where I set color to sRGB for exporting files to jpeg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paleolith Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 20 hours ago, brenbiz said: Also what photo viewer do others use who work on a W11 computer. Probably the most popular photo viewer is Irfanview, which is free and widely praised -- the website claims over a million downloads per month for the past 20 years. It does have color management settings, though I don't know enough to evaluate them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 Obsolete. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenbiz Posted September 13 Author Share Posted September 13 23 hours ago, R C-R said: In your Settings display, click on the Adobe RGB (1998) field to the right of the RGB Color Profile label to see the various available profiles, one of which should be sRGB IEC61966-2.1 or the like. However, this just sets the default for use in new documents, as explained here. So for your existing documents you could use the Document > Convert Format/ICC Profile menu item to convert the document to that profile. Many thanks for your help it all sorted now 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenbiz Posted September 13 Author Share Posted September 13 5 hours ago, paleolith said: Probably the most popular photo viewer is Irfanview, which is free and widely praised -- the website claims over a million downloads per month for the past 20 years. It does have color management settings, though I don't know enough to evaluate them. Thanks, I shall definitely go look into that 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenbiz Posted September 13 Author Share Posted September 13 5 hours ago, lacerto said: I still fail to understand the actual issue. Windows native previewers appear to be "reasonably color managed" (contrary to Googled trivia also expressed within this thread). But this might also be something involved with Topaz plugins and RAW images, which would make previewing much more complex. It seems to me that Affinity gives so many options which is great if you're a techie but it would have been helpful to have their default setting same as other editing software. Anyway I've learnt something new lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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