Guest Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Question about Affinity for Windows Have just started Affinity photo for first time. Very dark and gloomy. Particularly the tools which are brown on dark brown! Almost unreadable - I can hardly make out anything. What am I doing wrong please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 You can change it. Go through the menus, Edit > Preferences > User Interface and set UI Style to Light. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Martin71 said: Particularly the tools which are brown on dark brown! That sounds like a monitor color setting issue -- in the Dark UI style all the tool backgrounds should be a dark, neutral shade of grey. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 2 hours ago, Martin71 said: Very dark But it is the dark UI's principle, that does not distract attention from the edited picture. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 1 minute ago, Pšenda said: But it is the dark UI's principle, that does not distract attention from the edited picture. Light or dark UI, there should be no color cast to the background of any UI elements, because that would influence color perception of the image. If Martin is seeing any of that with a brown color cast, something must be wrong with the display, right? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 The color of the UI is indisputably "dark gray". Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 7 minutes ago, Pšenda said: The color of the UI is indisputably "dark gray". Yes it should be free of any color cast, but if Martin is seeing something else then something other than the Affinity UI preference settings must be causing that. I am not sure what that cause might be but on a Mac the only way I can get the UI element backgrounds to display as something other than gray is to use a 'tweaked' display color profile. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Maybe dark gray says Martin "brown" :-) Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 First, apologies. The brown was a slight cast on my monitor, now sorted. But the gloomy picture is rather better now I've changed to UI light. However my pictures are still vastly inferior to those shown by Toltec, lacking color and poor contrast, gray on gray, not black on gray. See attachment below (Toltec's on left, mine on right) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted March 9, 2018 Share Posted March 9, 2018 Return this checkbox to the default settings. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DidiS Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 Hi, At some point, all the features of a Wacom intuos tablet will be implemented in Affinity Photo, just like in Photoshop?A proposal from me, soon set up a feature in Affinity Photo that you can turn off the selection lines and. In Photoshop, I've always found this very convenient, it's less irritating when painting with the brush of smaller selections.Best regards Dieter Sorry, translated with Google translator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted March 22, 2018 Share Posted March 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, DidiS said: Hi, At some point, all the features of a Wacom intuos tablet will be implemented in Affinity Photo, just like in Photoshop?A proposal from me, soon set up a feature in Affinity Photo that you can turn off the selection lines and. In Photoshop, I've always found this very convenient, it's less irritating when painting with the brush of smaller selections.Best regards Dieter Sorry, translated with Google translator Should not it be placed in another topic? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DidiS Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Hi, I had no idea where to place it, if you can move it to a suitable location, thank you in advance. Best regards, Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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