The display brightness should be adequately set to match the perceptual brightness of the room. Most displays come straight from the factory looking very bright—sometimes eye-searingly so. Whilst this looks impressive, it not only wears on your eyes and causes fatigue but is often perceptually incorrect. Be aware that dramatically adjusting the brightness will void the calibration and profiling , since it will affect the colour reproduction and require a readjustment of the colour controls.

If accurate colour and tone is really your goal, try and fight past this initial desire to have a brighter display. For some devices, however, profiling is the only step available. Most laptops and Mac devices e. Nevertheless, even if you can achieve at least one of these two steps, it will significantly improve the tonal rendering and colour accuracy of your display and enable you to work with more confidence.

The apps will always colour manage from the document profile to the display profile, so examples of this might be:. This part of the process is where there is often some confusion—we see a lot of users of the Affinity apps who calibrate and profile their screens, then use the display profile as the document profile.

In fact, some users will find their way to the Colour preferences and change the defaults like so:. This is a really bad idea, because now your documents are going to use the display profile rather than a known, standardised device profile.

Depending on how extreme the profiling adjustments are, the colour values could be way off-base compared to a standard profile like sRGB. If you were to then export your work and view it on a device or app that is not colour managed, the result would look very wrong. If you have done this, I would recommend setting them back to the default values sRGB for RGB and 32bit RGB and leaving them like that unless you have a specific workflow reason to work in a different profile by default.

Setting up accurate colour management within the Affinity apps is actually very straightforward. Literally the only change you need to make will already have been made for you if you have used a colourimeter and profiling software: the display profile needs to be changed at the operating system level.

The same applies if you are working in CMYK for print: use whichever CMYK profile is applicable and it will be colour managed to display accurately on screen.

If you need to change the display profile manually, this is relatively straightforward on macOS and requires slightly more work on Windows depending on your version:. Windows users may often come across this issue: both the document view and interface areas that display colour of the Affinity apps have yellow tinting where it should look pure white. They are defective in regards to their compatibility with colour management solutions and do not work properly.

There are two solutions to this: one is to use a colourimeter and create a bespoke display profile, which you should do anyway! All profiling software i1Profiler , DisplayCAL etc is capable of creating proper display profiles that work with colour management implementations. The other solution is to reset your display profile to the sRGB device profile. I do not recommend doing this, since you are effectively negating any benefit of colour management, but if you are unable to calibrate and profile your screen this is the remaining option.

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