Colour irregularity

[SayAnything]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to design/publishing software and am currently trying to designFlyerDraft04.pdf a flyer for our restaurant. I've created it how I wish it to look in Affinity, however when I export to PDF or JPG, the background colour I've selected is a lot brighter than it appears in Affinity. I've not yet been able to print a sample to see which direction it leans on paper, but I was just hoping someone could point out what I've perhaps done incorrect in my setup that would cause this effect.

 

As I said, I'm not at all versed in this software so apologies if this is something incredibly simple/tedious that I've overlooked!  :)

 

Thanks for any assistance

Pui

 

This is a screenshot of the design within Affinity

 

 

This is the file exported to PDF & JPG

FlyerDraft04.pdf

[MattP]

Hi Pui,

 

Oh my, that looks yummy! There are a few things that may or may not be helping you, so here's what to check first....

 

- Download the latest beta version and take a look at it in there... does it look more like the output you've generated, or more like what you used to see in Affinity Designer? There were a few issues in the Mac App Store version of Affinity Designer that affected how colours looked and they weren't being represented accurately. The beta version should be displaying the real colours you'd get on output, so you won't get those noticeable differences like you're currently seeing. If you tweaked the colours of the document in the beta to match what you originally intended, then you should have something reliable to work from now.

 

- If that didn't help, could you tell us what document colour format and profile you're using (go to File->Document Setup and the dialog will tell you) and also give us an example of one of the colours that doesn't look correct. Eg "I am using CMYK(0,100,0,0) and it looks wrong"

 

Hopefully we can sort things out for you :)

 

Thanks,

Matt