Grayscale Profile

[Daniele Salvatore]

I have upoaded a B/W photo in AP and I got the message that it was assigned a Grayscale D50.

Therefore it is not possible to apply any colour as I wanted.

I enclose a screen-shot to show as it is.

[MEB]

Hi Daniele Salvatore,

Go to menu Document ▸ Colour Format and change it to RGB.

[Daniele Salvatore]

Hi Daniele Salvatore,

Go to menu Document ▸ Colour Format and change it to RGB.

 

Thank you for the very fast answer; I have changed the setting and now it works.

 

The strange matter is that prevuiosly I have uploaded several B&W photos and never I got this change from Colour to Grayscale.

[Mark Ingram]

Moving to Questions & Feedback forum.

[Alex Tesic]

I have another question concerning Grayscale D50. Is it possible to obtain generic Grayscale in Designer?

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Alex Tesic said:

I have another question concerning Grayscale D50. Is it possible to obtain generic Grayscale in Designer?

Everything needs to have a working profile. The Affinity applications use D50, but iF you have some alternative Grayscale profile you'd like to use, just install it on your system and you should be able to set it as your document's profile.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Alex Tesic said:

Is it possible to obtain generic Grayscale

On mac I have several "generic" profiles ... which I may choose in Affinity. FWIW:  Generic Gray Profile.icc   Generic Gray Gamma 2.2 Profile.icc

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[Alex Tesic]

1 minute ago, thomaso said:

On mac I have several "generic" profiles ... which I may choose in Affinity. FWIW:  Generic Gray Profile.icc   Generic Gray Gamma 2.2 Profile.icc

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Yeah, but I am on Windows, and when I open that window I get only Greyscale 50. I am having a problem with printing books with that, they tell me I need generic greyscale. Can you instruct me how to install it on my system? I mean, a link for that driver. I thought it was by default on Windows. Thanks!

[thomaso]

6 minutes ago, Alex Tesic said:

Can you instruct me how to install it on my system?

I have no Windows knowledge. I am sure a search for "install print profile windows" will show guiding results.

[Alex Tesic]

2 minutes ago, thomaso said:

I have no Windows knowledge. I am sure a search for "install print profile windows" will show guiding results.

Ok, thanks! I will try!

[iconoclast]

On Windows, the colour-profiles are stored under the following path: C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color

If you have different greyscale-profiles stored there, Photo should be able to find them and display them in the profile-menus, I think. But I haven't tested it yet with greyscale-profiles. All my other profiles, also the ones I added, are displayed correctly, as far as I see.

[Alex Tesic]

This is what I found:

D50.camp
D65.camp
Graphics.gmmp
MediaSim.gmmp
Photo.gmmp
Proofing.gmmp
RSWOP.icm
sRGB Color Space Profile.icm
wscRGB.cdmp
wsRGB.cdmp

[Alex Tesic]

27 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

On Windows, the colour-profiles are stored under the following path: C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\color

If you have different greyscale-profiles stored there, Photo should be able to find them and display them in the profile-menus, I think. But I haven't tested it yet with greyscale-profiles. All my other profiles, also the ones I added, are displayed correctly, as far as I see.

Done it! It works! It's alive!

Thanks!