nixpaints Posted Tuesday at 07:03 PM Posted Tuesday at 07:03 PM I'm working on an image of one of my paintings that I plan on printing on Hahnemüle Bamboo paper. When I worked in Photoshop - I would assign the icc profile to the image so that I could colour correct it properly before printing. When I did that, the whole workspace took on a dusty rose twang. If I did that in Photoshop - just the image itself would take on that cast so then I could colour correct it to get the best print possible. I have since changed the icc colourspace back to "Display P3" and it looks normal, but I am fairly sure that it won't print properly... I'm including a couple of photographs - one of the whole monitor display. I was in conversation with Samsung to see if it there was something wrong with the monitor itself. The second photo is a closeup of a neutral grey that I created in a separate program overtop of the Affinity file. The icc profile is Hahnemüle Bamboo, I'm using a new Mac mini M4, with Samsung 5K monitor. Quote
nixpaints Posted Tuesday at 07:39 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 07:39 PM I think I figured out the issue. I found this video on YouTube and it seems to resolve the issue I'm having. I went into the document and assigned the icc profile for the paper like I would in Photoshop. Apparently this is NOT the way to do it, rather assign the profile in the print dialog box instead. There are so many similarities between Affinity Photo and Photoshop, but this is a very notable difference. Is there anything else I should be aware of? I have calibrated my monitor using a Datacolor SpyderX, and I'm using that calibration as my baseline for colour and brightness etc. Youtube link: Oufti 1 Quote
stuck Posted Wednesday at 06:30 PM Posted Wednesday at 06:30 PM 23 hours ago, Nicole Deibert said: I would assign the icc profile to the image so that I could colour correct it properly before printing I'm not sure I understand you correctly but I think the equivalent in Affinity Photo that you are looking for is to add a Soft Proofing layer. Quote
nixpaints Posted Wednesday at 08:59 PM Author Posted Wednesday at 08:59 PM 2 hours ago, stuck said: I'm not sure I understand you correctly but I think the equivalent in Affinity Photo that you are looking for is to add a Soft Proofing layer. Thank you. I think you're correct. I reached out to Affinity directly as well and they sent me a link about using Soft Proofing layers. It was just more direct when I was using Photoshop, so this is a very new process for me. I had applied the icc profile for printing in the wrong spot, so that gave me the pink hue to everything. So that's all figured out now, and now I'm starting to gear up to actually print. The paper is just so damn expensive, I don't want to waste it doing lots of test prints. Quote
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