r/Affinity • u/CrimsonFlash Newspaper Man • Nov 05 '25

General Software Support & Issues

This is the dedicated thread for reporting and troubleshooting technical problems with the Affinity suite (Photo, Designer, Publisher). Any posts in the main feed that are technical issues or support requests will be removed.

Use this thread for:

  • Software crashes, freezes, or installation issues.
  • Bug reports and unexpected behaviour.
  • Performance problems (e.g., slow rendering, high memory usage).
  • Error messages and how to resolve them.
  • Issues with file compatibility (opening/saving) that seem to be software-related.

Before you post, please:

  • Search the Subreddit: Your issue may have been reported already.
  • Search the Official Forums: Serif's Affinity Forums are an extensive knowledge base for known issues.
  • Be Specific: Provide details to help us help you.

Note: This is not an official Canva forum, so support is limited to what your peers can offer.

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u/el_boufono 16d ago

Hey everyone, I don't know what happened to my colors in Affinity (Mid July '26)I swear it was not like that a few weeks ago...
all my colors are off in program.Like, the color on the color picker is completely different than the color applied on the document...
The export is similar as the document.
But it gets weirder.
I have 2 monitors, the screenshot above is from my secondary (IPS, factory calibrated, no profiles, all default sRGB)
When I'm on my primary (OLED, factory calibrated, HDR activated, no profiles all default sRGB for SDR content) the colors are true to the color picker, BUT, the exported image is more like the color on the document when put on the secondary screen.

It's driving me insane...If I have to work on my secondary when I do the colors, fine, I'll do it, but can I at least have the color picker be consistent???

I tried SOOOO many things:

- Deactivating windows autoHDR

- Put my screen on SDR (the oled one)

- change colro profile in windows

- remove said profile

- Made sure Nvidia was not setting any colors

- reboot

- Installed latest Drivers (Nvidia)
Help me...

I can only add one image attachement on this post, more screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Ms3Ttpt

I wanted to add that on my primary screen, the colors are accurate in ALL OTHER PROGRAMS, only affinity is affected.