Umbluu Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 I have wasted several days on a really simple problem – how to use screenshots of a web app on marketing materials for the web. How is one supposed to use Affinity Photo for that? I kept my document’s colour format in 8-bit RGB always, because that is what mac’s screen uses and that is the end result. But whatever settings I use for importing screenshots, colors *always* looks dull in Affinity Photo. I tried all colour profiles and I tried both converting and assigning all colour profiles there are in Affinity Photo. Is there a checkbox somewhere in Affinity Photo where I can say “Please for the love of god don’t touch the colours”? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umbluu Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 I just bought Acorn image editor for this task. Colors are just the way they should (working profile on both cases sRGB)! I realise that Acorn is much simpler program, but still… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 6 hours ago, Umbluu said: Is there a checkbox somewhere in Affinity Photo where I can say “Please for the love of god don’t touch the colours”? Edit > Preferences > Colour Unless it's different on a Mac (I don't have one of those) Oh, and you may want to upload some sample images and a APhoto file so we can see what you are seeing sbgraphic, casterle, AffinityJules and 6 others 1 8 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umbluu Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 OK, here's the screenshot of how Affinity Photo renders colours. Also attached is the .afphoto file. screenshots.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 If I go to that website and do a screenshot then paste that into your APhoto file I can clearly see the difference. Your colours are duller than mine and mine very closly match the ones shown in my browser screen As I am on Windows and you are on a Mac I don't really know what to advise or where to check stuff. Maybe someone with a Mac can do the same or similar test to see what results they get. Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umbluu Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 44 minutes ago, carl123 said: If I go to that website and do a screenshot then paste that into your APhoto file I can clearly see the difference. Your colours are duller than mine and mine very closly match the ones shown in my browser screen As I am on Windows and you are on a Mac I don't really know what to advise or where to check stuff. Maybe someone with a Mac can do the same or similar test to see what results they get. What's your "rendering intent" setting (preferences>colour)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 When I do a screenshot from a webbroser window and load that into APh, things looks nearly the same to me in the browser and APh. - Screenshot from inside of APh ... Further that website triangles background is a SVG drawing file, so it's SVG shown up in the browser. If I download that one and load it into APh it looks also the same to me ... Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 13 minutes ago, Umbluu said: What's your "rendering intent" setting (preferences>colour)? Hi, you can see that in my first post to this thread, thanks Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Just a couple of things to consider that may or may not be relevant here, so take them for what little they may be worth: Mac Screen captures (CMD+3, CMD+4, etc.) use the current display's color profile as set in System Preferences > Displays > Color tab. The Mac Affinity apps simply list that profile as "Display," regardless of how it is identified in Get Info windows as iMac, Adobe RGB (1998), NTSC/PAL, or whatever. How web browsers manage color is more complicated than it might seem, particularly regarding how a mix of tagged & untagged page elements are handled. So taken together, I think what this means is you can't assume that a screenshot of a web page will always have the same colors when opened in different apps, not just the Affinity ones ... but I am far from certain about that or more to the point what to do about it. 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...
firstdefence Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 If you change your documents Colour format to RGB (16bit) the colours snap to almost identical to the website. they are literally off by 1 in R,G and B if you then change it back to RGB (8bit) the colours stay as bright as RGB (16bit) I have my Mac screen set to sRGB IEC1966 2.1 in the color display settings of system prefs and the screen grab is exactly the same RGB values when I open it in Affinity Photo. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umbluu Posted May 14, 2019 Author Share Posted May 14, 2019 3 hours ago, >|< said: I have found that the current Affinity apps can assign an incorrect colour profile to Mac screenshot files which have embedded iMac profile (screenshots captured with shift-cmd-3 or -4, for example) if the OS has multiple display profiles installed, and that will cause Affinity to display incorrect colours. Does your Mac have multiple display profiles installed? See this bug report regarding Mac screenshots sometimes being mismanaged by current Affinity apps (retail and beta): Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 5 hours ago, firstdefence said: I have my Mac screen set to sRGB IEC1966 2.1 IEC61966-2.1 in the color display settings of system prefs Is that a good idea? I have always understood that in System Preference it should be set to one of the display color profiles, those shown when "Show profiles for this display only" is ticked, never to one that is not. 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...
firstdefence Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 7 hours ago, R C-R said: Is that a good idea? I have always understood that in System Preference it should be set to one of the display color profiles, those shown when "Show profiles for this display only" is ticked, never to one that is not. I can set it to iMac Calibrated but there is no discernible difference between iMac calibrated and sRGB IEC1966 2.1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 5 hours ago, >|< said: Does your 2015 iMac not have a wide gamut display? I'm talking about my 2011, the 2011 is in the house the 2015 is in the office, the 2015 is a 5k retina screen. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
affinity noob Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 I have found a work around. Open the image in Preview. Go to Tools. Go to Assign profile. Change colour sync profile to match your document settings i.e. SRGB. Joran2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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