dho Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 I have a trial version of Affinity Photo installed and it looks very promising, but I am having an issue with color profiles. Photos in Affinity photo are washed out and have less contrast than in other editing software or when I view the photo in a browser. I am using the Spyder5Pro to calibrate my screen and am using the profile created by it in each application. For example I have been using ACDSee Ultimate, it is set to use the Spyder5Pro profile and the colours are richer with better contrast. I installed a trial version of Photoshop CC , and there as well the colours are better. When I just use a browser to open a photo the colours are also better and match closely what I see in ACDSee and Photoshop. I have in Affinity photo in Preferences/Colour set the RBG Colour Profile to the profile created by the Spyder5Pro . When I open a photo with Affinity Photo I get a message saying that it has been converted to this profile but the result does not match the other editing applications or browser. Am I missing something? I like the features in Affinity Photo and would switch to it but if the colour management is off then it will not work for me. Is there a solution to this? thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 27, 2018 Share Posted June 27, 2018 Affinity is designed to be aware of, and work with, the color profile assigned to your monitor. So, once you have profiled the monitor you should use the Windows Color Management dialog to assign it to your monitor. Your photos would remain in sRGB, or Adobe RGB. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dho Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 Hello, yes, the Spyder5Pro calibrator claims to set this system wide. I think Affinity is using the custom profile as I get message saying that it has been converted to this profile but the result does not match the other editing applications, ACDSee and Photoshop, or the browser. thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Dan C Posted June 28, 2018 Staff Share Posted June 28, 2018 Hi dho, Welcome to the forums I'd recommend reading the above thread, ensuring you have the default values set in Affinity! Quote Please note - I am currently out of the office for a short while whilst recovering from surgery (nothing serious!), therefore will not be available on the Forums during this time. Should you require a response from the team in a thread I have previously replied in - please Create a New Thread and our team will be sure to reply as soon as possible. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff James Ritson Posted June 28, 2018 Staff Share Posted June 28, 2018 13 hours ago, dho said: I have a trial version of Affinity Photo installed and it looks very promising, but I am having an issue with color profiles. Photos in Affinity photo are washed out and have less contrast than in other editing software or when I view the photo in a browser. I am using the Spyder5Pro to calibrate my screen and am using the profile created by it in each application. For example I have been using ACDSee Ultimate, it is set to use the Spyder5Pro profile and the colours are richer with better contrast. I installed a trial version of Photoshop CC , and there as well the colours are better. When I just use a browser to open a photo the colours are also better and match closely what I see in ACDSee and Photoshop. I have in Affinity photo in Preferences/Colour set the RBG Colour Profile to the profile created by the Spyder5Pro . When I open a photo with Affinity Photo I get a message saying that it has been converted to this profile but the result does not match the other editing applications or browser. Am I missing something? I like the features in Affinity Photo and would switch to it but if the colour management is off then it will not work for me. Is there a solution to this? thank you Hi dho, you shouldn't be setting Affinity Photo's colour profile to your new display profile, that's not how you colour manage. The software will automatically colour manage based off the current monitor profile, which should be set to your custom profile created by the Spyder5Pro software (is it i1Profiler?). The colour profile options in Affinity Photo's Preferences are for the document profile, not your display. Your document profile wants to be a standardised profile like sRGB (the default), Adobe RGB, ProPhoto etc. Photo will then colour manage by converting the colour values using your display profile so that what you're seeing is accurate. What you're currently doing is converting from the image's original colour profile to your display profile, which may explain why the colours look washed out and incorrect. Try setting Affinity Photo's colour dropdown options back to their defaults (e.g. sRGB) and you should see an improvement. In other words, you're overcomplicating things! All you need to do is make sure the OS (Windows or macOS) is using your display profile. In Windows, you'd right click the desktop and choose Display Settings, then make sure the Spyder profile is being used in the dropdown. On macOS, you'd go to System Preferences>Displays>Colour and set the display profile there. You shouldn't need to change anything in Affinity Photo, just leave the colour profile options on their default settings (e.g. sRGB). Hope that helps! Dan C and Arp_148 1 1 Quote Product Expert (Affinity Photo) & Product Expert Team Leader @JamesR_Affinity for tutorial sneak peeks and more Official Affinity Photo tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dho Posted June 28, 2018 Author Share Posted June 28, 2018 @Jame Ritson When I change Affinity Photo's colour dropdown options back to sRGB the result is much worse, and and does not match what I see in ACDSee, Photoshop or the browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 28, 2018 Share Posted June 28, 2018 5 hours ago, dho said: @Jame Ritson When I change Affinity Photo's colour dropdown options back to sRGB the result is much worse, and and does not match what I see in ACDSee, Photoshop or the browser. But, do you have the monitor profile you developed assigned to the monitor in the Windows settings? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDPR-365024 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Hi dho, If you set your document colour profiles in APh and PS as James has pointed out you should obtain colour consistency between these apps. Perhaps you should uncheck 'convert open files to working space' (in PS as well) until this issue is sorted? Ok — ACDSee Ultimate. I used Ultimate 10 for a while (it's one or two versions back from the current). On screen my images were more contrasty—overly so—compared to both APh and PS. They were also overly sharp (a bit like an unsharp mask on steroids). I was never able to obtain a document profile match even though it had the same colour profile loaded as both APh and PS. Needless to say it's no longer on my machine and won't be reinstalled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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