Hello,

I've been having trouble with colours on my exported image, in both JPEG and PNG form.

I have looked through solutions on this forum on exporting images and tried the solutions but nothing really worked? I'm using Krita on a Macbook, and tried pretty much every possible route and nothing helps??

It would be helpful to describe what 'trouble' you're having with colours and what you're trying to do and what happens.
Posting example pictures would be useful as well.
What are the 'solutions' that you've tried?

ahabgreybeard wrote:It would be helpful to describe what 'trouble' you're having with colours and what you're trying to do and what happens.
Posting example pictures would be useful as well.
What are the 'solutions' that you've tried?

Hi, here's a link to the screenshot of the drawing and the exported image:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=16sfjT ... S2Z88PWaka

I've looked through the preference settings and readjusted the soft-proofing from CMYK to RGB (that might be one thing causing the issue). I've also tried exporting the image with different combinations in the 'Quality' and 'Softproofing' Options. Both of the profile is sRGB-elle-V2-srgbtrc.icc

I'm not really savvy with colour management so any input would be wonderful!

If you open s.jpg in Krita, does it look as saturated as .kra file, or does it look washed out, as in the image viewer?

The explanation below is with an assumption that is does indeed look as saturated as it should be.

Mac computers are terrible for color management beginners, because the displays usually are wide gamut, so in case of a fully color managed programs like Krita, you need to configure it correctly first. There can be two possible options and I never remember which one is the default on Mac:

- Krita is showing it corrently, but programs like the image viewer you're using just assume that the display is sRGB.

- Krita is showing it incorrectly, while other programs do it correctly. You need to go to Configure Krita -> Color Management -> Display and make sure that the display color profile is correct.

You can try the second approach, just checking all color profiles if you don't know what exact color profile your display has, and check which one makes the image in Krita look as close to how it looks like outside of Krita as possible. **Warning:** if you put an incorrect profile here while the first case was true, it can mean that for you all images will look saturated etc., but Windows and Linux users, especially ones with a proper color profiled displays, will see it as washed out... At least I think so.

MacOS devices use the dci-p3 color space since 2015. What you can do is check whether you can set the displays in the color management preferences to use the dci-p3 profile(your computer should have one, otherwise, check if you can find one on apple's website).

Softproofing is only active when using view->softproofing & gamut warnings. So don't worry about those. For the record, saturated images becoming desaturated on export does sound consistent with what would happen if Krita is interpretting the images from srgb to srgb, while your image viewer is interpreting them from srgb to dci-p3, so hopefully this works!

TheraHedwig wrote:MacOS devices use the dci-p3 color space since 2015. What you can do is check whether you can set the displays in the color management preferences to use the dci-p3 profile(your computer should have one, otherwise, check if you can find one on apple's website).

Softproofing is only active when using view->softproofing & gamut warnings. So don't worry about those. For the record, saturated images becoming desaturated on export does sound consistent with what would happen if Krita is interpretting the images from srgb to srgb, while your image viewer is interpreting them from srgb to dci-p3, so hopefully this works!

Hi, so does this mean I need to reconfigure the image viewer profile to something else? I've also tried opening the jpg in krita and the colours remain the same as the kra file. I've tried looking the image up in my phone, so it might be that I picked out the wrong colour profile?

You need to configure Krita to use the dci-p3 icc profile in the color management section of the preferences.

TheraHedwig wrote:You need to configure Krita to use the dci-p3 icc profile in the color management section of the preferences.

It worked!! Thank you so much for helping out!!