Hi, I think Krita has some issue in properly embedding the profile and color informations during the export..
The .jpg or .tiff files I export from krita look very different, when I open them in color managed viewer like XnView, from those I see in the Krita project window .
I've always used this viewer for images, never encountered problems.

I created a project in krita with Adobe RGB color profile and few simple colors, I exported in jpg: the colors of the jpg are different from those in the project .......
As a test I have saved the project in .psd, I opened it in Photoshop, and saved in jpg by photoshop: colors jpg are the same of the project, no alteration...

How can I fix this? Thanks

I have no idea about xnview -- it's closed source, so I cannot check what it's doing internally, though I suspect from the icc settings tab that it is using lcms2, as well. What krita is doing is correct, though.

What might be the case is that xnview is set up to use a different display profile from Krita. On Windows, Krita doesn't try to get the display profile from Windows' colour management system, you have to select that manually (just like xnview). If you select the same display profile as you use for your working space, you will effectively use Krita in an unmanaged way.

If you want, I can take a deeper look. For that I need a bug report with:

* a screenshot of your xnview icc settings dialog page
* a screenshot of your krita color management settings page
* the kra and psd file you're testing with
* the jpg saved by krita
* the jpg saved by photoshop.

Here it is!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx_-txE5HqvadVE4YmNKckd5RjA/view?usp=sharing
Thanks a lot!

Okay: I notice that you're using the Adobe RGB profile for the image you've created in Krita, and that you have set the monitor profile in Krita. But you didn't set the monitor profile in xnview, which means that xnview isn't actually showing you a color corrected image.

When you loaded your image in photoshop, did you get a dialog like this, and if so, what did you choose?



Now, in the image exported from photoshop there is no embedded profile anymore, so I think you went for the third option. But just stripping the profile out is a bad idea, it will give a whole new meaning to the numbers that make up your pixels. And the profile you started with, Adobe RGB is a pretty specific profile. Basically, you're mixing a color managed workflow with a non-color managed workflow, and that's a bad idea. Now, color management is at the heart of Krita. Every action you execute upon a pixel, lightening, combining colors (painting in other words...) goes through the color management system.

If you want to simulate a non-color managed workflow with Krita you should:

* use the default sRGB profile sRGB-elle-v2-srgbtrc instead of Adobe RGB.
* set the very same profile as your display profile in Krita
* and save to png with the Embed Profile checkbox unchecked

In the next version of Krita, tiff and jpeg can also be saved without embedding a profile. But note that this means that you basically give up any control over what your image looks like. It might look okay on your monitor, but it's a total toss-up what it'll look like on another monitor.

Please also check our manual: https://userbase.kde.org/Krita/Manual/ColorManagement. It explains color management really well.

Thank you very much!