Chris Rivers Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 I have created some images in Affinity Designer, latest version, which look fine in the application. However, two out of the six or seven I have done recently, when I export them to PNG, JPG and other formats, they look washed out and dull. I copied the exported files to my laptop and they look dull there too. I installed Designer on the laptop, and the original Designer file looks okay. If I export it there, it still looks dull. I have attached the original file and a screen capture of what the exported file looks like. Thursday PM-selected.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 That screenshot does not show the same image as in your .zip file. The .png and .afdesign in the .zip file both look fine on my laptop. 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...
Brad Brighton Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 (edited) FWIW and all that... The image you posted isn't the one in the zip so it's hard to genuinely compare. However, taking your designer file and exporting here (macOS Mojave, AD 1.7.1, to PNG in this case) shows no noticeable difference (to my quick review anyway). That would seem to put the issue either into something you're doing at export that's different or a display config that may be impacting. Edit: so, while I am arguably an idiot (the thread talks about Windows, after all) perhaps this cross-check will still be useful? Edited July 4, 2019 by Brad Brighton Mark Ingram 1 Quote https://bmb.photos | Focus: The unexpected, the abstract, the extreme on screen, paper, & other physical output. Tools: macOS (Primary: Ventura, MBP2018), Canon (Primary: 5D3), iPhone (Primary: 14PM), Nikon Film Scanners, Epson Printers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 9 minutes ago, Brad Brighton said: so, while I am arguably an idiot (the thread talks about Windows, after all) perhaps this cross-check will still be useful? I regularly cross-check reports on the other OS, and I know several other users who do this, too. Most of the application code is common across the different versions of the Affinity applications, so what fails in one often fails in the other. Not always, though, and I think the information that it works in one but not the other can also be useful to the Serif developers. Mark Ingram 1 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...
Staff Sean P Posted July 5, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 5, 2019 Hi Chris, just tried this myself and like the others this is displaying fine. Could you attach the file shown in your first post please? Also what are you using the view the images in Windows, and what export settings are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 And what monitor ICC profile are you using? We convert colours from document to screen, whereas image viewers such as Windows Photo Viewer do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Rivers Posted July 6, 2019 Author Share Posted July 6, 2019 Yeah, I found the cause of the issue. For some reason for some of the images, the colour profile was set to my printer\scanner. I changed it back to sRGB (the bottom profile) and now it exports okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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