unity-game-engineimportcolorsspritegimp

Unity Sprite Colors Wrong, But Compression Is None, And Filter Mode Is Point

Problem

I know that Unity sprites have compression and filtering applied.

I have already disabled this on the images.

See below.

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I have edited these in Gimp and when I export and import them into Gimp the colors are

Color Hex
Light Blue 0066aa
Blue 0044aa
Dark Blue 0022aa
Darkest Blue 000088

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When I import this into Unity it looks slightly off, and it makes no sense.

Side-by-side next to a separate image this is what it looks like. The left one is the intended color. The right color is the one I'm getting on import.

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If I take these images and import them into GIMP again, the colors are still reporting as correct. HOWEVER, if I take a picture of the Unity sprites and check the colors, they're completely incorrect.

Color Hex
Light Blue 275e9b
Blue 173f9a
Dark Blue 081f9a
Darkest Blue 00007b

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Question

So what's the issue here. It's obviously not compression. It's obviously not filtering. I can see that the colors for the source images are correct. BUT, when they're imported and used in Unity the colors are dark and incorrect?

What am I doing wrong here?

Edit:

I have checked the image properties and it is using GIMP built-in sRGB

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If I check the color management I see there are settings, but I'm not sure what is relevant or isn't.

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Solution

  • Shout out to @xenoid for solving this problem. The issue is that GIMP used something called Color-managed display that was somehow modifying this.

    To fix this I ended up going to GIMP -> Preferences -> Color Management -> Image Display Mode and changing it from Color-managed display to No color management

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    This was also fixed by going to Image -> Color Management -> Enable Color Management and making sure that Enable Color Management does not have a checkmark on it.

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    I honestly have no idea what that feature is, or what it was doing, and to be honest, I'm a bit frustrated by GIMP as this is another experience with the tool that has demonstrated it making decisions on my behalf that I do not want.

    Once again, thank you @xenoid for taking the time to help me identify this issue!