Colour issue with Affinity Canva

LCPete · Monday at 9:02 AM

Hi everyone
I have recently moved from Mac to PC for photo editing and also started using Affinity Canva
I shoot in Raw on Canon R5 then convert with DXO 8 to tiff then edit in Canva, have been using Affinity 1 and 2 along with DXO for years with no issues on Mac

I have noticed that on some images that have been edited and saved using Canva and then viewed on MacBook Pro and ipad the colours are wrong but look OK on PC
(If I use Affinity 1 on my PC and view on MacBook there are no problems)
According to google Canva changes the colour space
Looks like I will be going back to using Affinity 1 again, unfortunately I only have Affinity 1 on PC
I suspect the long term solution will be to go back to Adobe photoshop a shame as Affinity was perfect for what i do which is mainly macro work and image stacking
Has anyone else seen this problem
An example image, the colour is wrong brown tinge in other images the reds are muted
I have tried converting to sRGB directly from DXO but doesn’t always work

Knikki · Monday at 4:51 PM

I use Affinity V3 and n the Settings I set the Colour Space to the one I want and I make sure any other editing software is also set to the same colour space.

The only time Affinity V3 changes colour space is if I scan a B&W image as a grey scale then take it into Affinity it will try to convert it to the set colour space, this is also true of Affinity V2.

I guess the ups shot is check what Colour Space is set in Affinity and I don't have an issue moving between my Mac mini and Mac Book with images.

LCPete · Monday at 8:14 PM

Thanks am looking at it again now , think its more to it than I thought
Canva converts automatically to sRGB and it seems that its not always an issue but did try an image with some red in it in Affinity 1 using Adobe rgb and the colour was better

Eucris · Tuesday at 8:50 AM

LCPete said:
Thanks am looking at it again now , think its more to it than I thought
Canva converts automatically to sRGB and it seems that its not always an issue but did try an image with some red in it in Affinity 1 using Adobe rgb and the colour was better

Can't you change it to something else?

LCPete · Tuesday at 9:21 AM

Eucris said:
Can't you change it to something else?

Unfortunately Canva doesn’t have that option it automatically changes it to sRGB , a shame , for now I have gone back to Affinity 1 which allows you to save adobe rgb amongst other options

LCPete · Tuesday at 9:24 AM

There is a slight colour difference between my PC and MacBook screen which makes it more difficult , will look into that

Eucris · Tuesday at 10:35 AM

LCPete said:
Unfortunately Canva doesn’t have that option it automatically changes it to sRGB , a shame , for now I have gone back to Affinity 1 which allows you to save adobe rgb amongst other options

Well in that case I must have a faulty version of Canva Affinity because I was able to change the colour profile to ProPhoto.

LCPete · Tuesday at 10:56 AM

Eucris said:
Well in that case I must have a faulty version of Canva Affinity because I was able to change the colour profile to ProPhoto.

You can on export but when you import an image it automatically changes it to sRGB
If there is a way of importing and editing a file in adobe rgb would be very helpful but I couldn’t see any way of doing that

Eucris · Tuesday at 11:09 AM

LCPete said:
You can on export but when you import an image it automatically changes it to sRGB
If there is a way of importing and editing a file in adobe rgb would be very helpful but I couldn’t see any way of doing that

I changed the colour profile in SETTINGS and then just clicked on FILE > OPEN

LCPete · Tuesday at 12:03 PM

Eucris said:
I changed the colour profile in SETTINGS and then just clicked on FILE > OPEN

Thanks will do that didn’t know about that