How to load exr renders in Affinity Photo and get the same color results as in V-Ray using ACES workflow?

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I am switching to the ACES color management in 3dsmax 2026 and it works flawlessly with DaVinci Resolve and Fusion but I can’t find a configuration that would allow me to load stills saved as exr in Affinity Photo for further postproduction. I selected the OCIO config that 3dsmax uses in the Affinity Photo Colour settings but I can’t find any working combination for the OCIO adjustment to get the same result as I see in the VFB. Does anyone had success in this field?

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It seems anything with ACES these days dosnt seem to just ‘work’ :smile: having similar issues with ACES renders and ColorIO in Photoshop.

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I don’t have an Affinity license to test this, but there seems to be options to choose an OCIO config file in Affinity. As for Photoshop, it is done through Edit > Convert to OpenColorIO, where you select a config, working space, and Input Color Space (ACEScg).

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Thanks.. the issue i had is i couldnt find the right config that matched the VFB in Vray.. colors always seemed a bit ‘off’.. this might be partly due to my lack of experience in color profiling but it was hard to just get a perfect match. This was when comparing a EXR in the method you describe vs saving a PNG directly from the VFB (Also taking into account my monitors ICC which i had set in the VFB).

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Did you manage to match them?