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I'm attempting to create a large image that can printed at roughly 36"x36" so the image is large.  That might be part of my issues.  

I'm following the affinity photo youtube tutorial for moon editing titled "Moon Processing Workflow (Affinity Photo)"

I've ended up with a photo I'm pretty happy with.  But when I flatten, export, merge visible, etc.  The image changes quite a bit.  Everything becomes muted (colors, texture, details).  I'm not sure what to do?

 

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Please show us the following:

  1. screenshot of application full window, while the hand 🤚 tool is active, so we see the color format and color profile in the context toolbar
  2. Screenshot of the export UI. You used to export the image. Specifically color format, tone curve, color profile
  3. open the exported PNG again in Photo. Screenshot of this file open and hand tool active.

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Use zoom level 100% for all screenshots and try to show the same area, e.g. upper left corner or center of image (include part of moon and black background)

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What ‘Quality’ percentage did you set for exporting the image? JPEG is notoriously ‘lossy’ at the low quality (i.e. high compression) end of the scale.

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15 hours ago, Pmanucr said:

But when I flatten, export, merge visible, etc.  The image changes quite a bit.

If you are merging, flattened etc images that have non-integer X/Y or W/H values, that can cause blurring/fuzziness issues

 

 

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I'm having the same problem. PNG, flattened or not, exports muted colors and dull whites in AP. I've read around the forum, watched the shared vids and tried the suggested settings changes. Nothing has worked. 

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Please upload a test document. We need to see which color format and profile is used.

 

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