Hi there,
I am completely new to Krita and digital art in general, so this might be a beginners' mistake, but I'm not sure.
I created a file with the following properties: Model: RGB/Alpha, 8-bit depth integer, sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc.
When I exported it to png, the colors looked washed out. Like the saturation is lower than I can see it in Krita.
The boxes I checked in the saving dialogue are: Interlacing, store alpha channel. I saved it lossless.

I have this problem with a painting with about 12 layers (I flattened the image before exporting), so first I thought I messed something up with the layers, but doodling on one single white background layer doesn't help it, it still looks different as a png. [Files in 3rd post]

Do I use wrong properties?

Thanks and kind regards
and sorry for grammar mistakes, no native speaker here
Jacky

Hi,

Thanks for the details.

Any chance to get the original kra file? I think it would help people in order to reproduce the issue you described.

Sure, I uploaded the files in Dropbox, hope that works. There are two krita files (is this normal?), the png and a screenshot of what Krita and the png look like on my Mac.

I also installed Krita on a Linux PC, and when I opened my Krita file there, it already looked washed out like in my png.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wk765exlcr3c1vf/AABLOYPCirU4yI1F9WTgowcYa?dl=0

One of them, the one ending with ~ is a backup file.

You might want to try ticking 'Embed sRGB profile' to see if this makes a difference but I doubt that it will. Note that all .png files are lossless, it is just the amount of file compression that can be varied.

I opened the .kra file and the .png file with Krita, in different tabs for comparison viewing by clicking from one tab to the next and I couldn't see any difference between them. I also used the colour picker tool to examine the RGB values at various locations at the same place in both files and there is no difference as far as I can tell. I tried exporting the .kra file to a fresh .png file and there was no on screen difference between the two.

I'm very puzzled as to why you see the 'washed out' effect on the .png file. Could it be that you were looking at the .png file with a separate file viewer that has the 'wrong' display presentation behaviour?