Insane Color Rendering

[2nd_Opinion]

I hate to say it but Affinity Photo is a useless piece of stuff when it comes to photo editors. In fact, it fails completely as a photo editor.

Why?

Because it is INCAPABLE of accurately rendering colors as evidenced in the attached file. Whenever I attempt to edit a photo in this useless application and get the photo to where I like it and export is, EVERY other application yields colors way out of whack. What good is a photo editing application that is incapable of accurately rendering colors? It's like the app itself is color blind. And, before anyone chimes in, YES I changed the color space to the recommended sRGB IEC61966-2.1. The end result? Zip! Nothing! Same old, same old.

See the image below for yourself. This is a screen grab of Affinity Photo rendering a photo of flowers and plain, old, humble Irfanview rendering the same image.

There is simply no way to make use of this app in any workflow. Worse, there is NO WAY to adjust the color space for the application ITSELF! On Windows 11 you have to set the color space for the entire machine an HOPE that Affinity Photo uses it.

Useless.

[David in Яuislip]

5 hours ago, 2nd_Opinion said:

I hate to say it but Affinity Photo is a useless piece of stuff when it comes to photo editors

You're in a minority here, I'd suspect the settings under System/ Display/ Advanced display
Mine uses the default of sRGB because I'm too lazy to calibrate it but it's pretty good and Photo is more or less identical to Irfanview

[NotMyFault]

7 hours ago, 2nd_Opinion said:

I hate to say it but Affinity Photo is a useless piece of stuff when it comes to photo editors. In fact, it fails completely as a photo editor.

Why?

Because it is INCAPABLE of accurately rendering colors as evidenced in the attached file. Whenever I attempt to edit a photo in this useless application and get the photo to where I like it and export is, EVERY other application yields colors way out of whack. What good is a photo editing application that is incapable of accurately rendering colors? It's like the app itself is color blind. And, before anyone chimes in, YES I changed the color space to the recommended sRGB IEC61966-2.1. The end result? Zip! Nothing! Same old, same old.

See the image below for yourself. This is a screen grab of Affinity Photo rendering a photo of flowers and plain, old, humble Irfanview rendering the same image.

There is simply no way to make use of this app in any workflow. Worse, there is NO WAY to adjust the color space for the application ITSELF! On Windows 11 you have to set the color space for the entire machine an HOPE that Affinity Photo uses it.

Useless.

Please check the language you are using in your posts. Offending those people you try to get help you to solve your issues is not a good way to start you forum membership. It seems you are incapable to follow the forum guidelines which start with:

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Briefly

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https://affinityspotlight.com/article/display-colour-management-in-the-affinity-apps/

 

[PaulEC]

6 hours ago, 2nd_Opinion said:

there is NO WAY to adjust the color space for the application ITSELF!

Obviously you're entitled to your opinions, but it might be a good idea to check your facts before having a rant about something! If AFPhoto was as bad as you make out, I very much doubt that so many people, both hobbyists and professionals, would be using it on a daily basis!

[2nd_Opinion]

To begin, there was nothing offensive about my language. Was I ticked? Absolutely. There is nothing I can find to make Affinity Photo render colors identical to every other program on my computer, Windows 11.

PaulEC, you seem to have found a solution. Can you reveal what you did?

[HCl]

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[PaulEC]

1 hour ago, 2nd_Opinion said:

you seem to have found a solution. Can you reveal what you did?

I didn't "do" anything, that's just a normal comparison between the same file displayed in Affinity Photo and Irfanview. As you can see they are virtually the same. I tend to leave the colour settings at their defaults on my PC, monitors and in the software. I would suggest that you check the colour settings in Affinity Photo. Edit > Settings > Colour.

[2nd_Opinion]

I was wrong. You guys were right.

Thank you, David. It turns out it was a quirk in setting the correct color profile in Windows. I did change the profile at the system level and restarted my computer but to no avail. In fact, my settings were identical to what you posted. However, at the bottom of the Advanced tab I clicked on Change System Defaults and was surprised to see that my old color profile was still selected!!! Thank you, Windows! I changed the profile back to sRGB and this time it took. Thanks, again!