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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

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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.

 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    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.
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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?

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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.

-- 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

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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?

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