Color Shifts when exporting

Hello Folks! 

I am running into some very frustrating color shifts in my exports from AFX- and have no idea what could be causing them. The imported image looks perfect in the AFX viewport but when it comes to exporting it the colors become way darker and way more contrasted in general. 

The original image was exported as an 8 bit channel png. The buffer type is HDR (float 32-bit) and the color space is sRGB. There is an image below: 

When I bring the image into AFX it looks exactly as it should in the AFX viewport - see below: 

however the problem comes in when I try to export the image from AFX. I get this completely different image which is way darker and more contrasted and looks nothing like my original. 

I have included images below of all my afx settings upon export- hopefully someone with more color space experience will spot something that I am missing. 

All and any help is greatly appreciated!!