Hiya, in my case the problem was mostly my own ignorance and the fact that AERO Gigabyte laptops come pre calibrated with a proprietary color profile that sets as default and other panel settings that need to be changed in their weird “Control Center” software.   Basically, for me, what fixed the issue was as simple as making the system color profile match with the file's color mode and disabling Gigabyte's “Panel Color” settings.   Unless you have to calibrate your monitor or change something specific to the laptop manufacturer, as was my case. It could be just as simple as checking your system profile (Type “Color Management” in the Start Menu, and it will show you the current ICC Profile) and checking for discrepancies. ... View more

After it didn't change with Preview on CPU and after updating my graphics card driver it remained the same, displaying desaturated colors by default unless I select the Monitor RGB option form the Proof Setup.      To try and reference I checked Adobe Color and the colors showed fine so I checked Affinity Designer and the colors display just as desaturated as in Illustrator, and then I realized that with Monitor RGB selected it shows the file as a color profile called GGG_SDC416B.icc       Apparently my new laptop shows sRGB all wonky and you need to select what I assume is Gigabytes own color profile. After selecting that Profile both in Illustrator and Affinity Designer, RGB colors display fine. Weird.   Anyway, thank you very much, and I sarted reading up on Color Management I'll search around for a seminar, scout's honor!   Cheers ... View more

Hello, That's what I dont get, though! If it is an RGB file selected from a Web, Film or Illustration preset why would it default to Working CMYK? If I don't have Proof Colors selected it shows desaturated colors and I have to select Monitor RGB from the Proof Setup for the colors to display as I would expect from an RGB file. I feel like I'm stupid and missing something obvious.       Probably as @Monika Gause says, I really just have to learn me some color stuff :P... Thanks!     ... View more

Hi! Yeah, thats a pretty big blindspot of mine, I rarely make something for print and when I have, there was always someone in the team to handle the technical stuff. As you can probably guess I don't have a formal design education. Thanks for the tip.   These are my color settings btw, I don't usually mess with that.     ... View more

When selecting a document based on Art & Illustration document it defaults to Working RGB too.       ... View more

I do select an appropriate document profile from the tabs. My color management setup is very barebones, I dont have multiple monitors or color calibration gadgets. I have a decent Gigbyte Laptop AERO 16 is called and it has a pretty nice screen, I do not have HDR activated, though. ... View more

Thanks for the reply, man. I didn't know plugins could have independent GPU functions, so I guess that simplifies things. As of the drivers, I tried a few including the 517 Studio Driver, but AE still wouldn't recognize it, it doesn't really matter now because the update 23.1 of AE this morning fixed it with the latest Nvidia driver.   Thanks again, cheers. ... View more