pattern swatches are changing colour when using the gradient fill

[jessicahopemedlock]

Hey guys, 

I am having issues when filling a square with a pattern I have made.

When I open the PNG in the file it is the correct colour. However when I fill the square with the PNG in the same file it seems to change the colour of the PNG.

So for example, a print with a red background when opened using affinity designer (PNG) is the correct colour. However when I use the gradient tool to fill a square with the pattern it becomes orange. 

Im trying to update my portfolio and this is a bit of a nightmare... perhaps there is an easy fix that I'm not seeing! 

If anyone can help i would really appreciate it. 

Thanks!

[Callum]

Hi jessicahopemedlock,

Welcome to the forums

Please could you send me a copy of the PNG file so I can look into this further for you?

Thanks

Callum

[jessicahopemedlock]

apologies but I cant seem to upload the file... the screenshot of the error is below. Can i send it to you another way?

Thanks

Jess

[carl123]

If the PNG file is large try reducing it to about 2000px wide,  Error code 200 can occur on uploads of extremely wide images on this forum

[jessicahopemedlock]

[firstdefence]

I wonder if one document is RGB the other CYMK?

I filled this with your Pattern and the dragged that pattern into the workspace and they match exactly. this is CMYK8 by the way.

This one is RGB8

Coincident? I think not 

[jessicahopemedlock]

im so useless with computers. Forgive my stupidity but I tried to save a PNG as cmyk and i couldnt, it would only let me do it in RGB... but yes, my affinity designer portfolio is in cmyk. Should I change the portfolio to RGB? or is there a way to save a PNG in CMYK?

[R C-R]

19 hours ago, jessicahopemedlock said:

I tried to save a PNG as cmyk ...

From the Wikipedia PNG entry:

Quote

The PNG working group designed the format for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore it does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK. 

 

[jessicahopemedlock]

So I guess I dont understand if there isnt a way to save a cmyk file as a PNG why the pattern mode in infinity only allows you to use PNG's... or is there another way to add patterns without using PNG's?