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Hoptoad
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Moho color profile

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Why doesn't Moho ask you to pick a color profile for your artwork? Just curious.
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I wish the color support were more advanced in Moho too.

For now, it's best to stick with 24-bit sRGB to get the most predictable results across platforms. Moho only supports 24-bit color anyway, so it's not that critical. Avoid mporting images with higher bit-depth color because it can have bad results.

This is one of many reasons I composite most of my Moho work in a third-party program like After Effects, Nuke, or Fusion. In my TV work, I often need to use background art with higher bit-depth color, so for Moho, I'll import a reduced-to-24-bit version and use it strictly as a reference. Then, I'll break out the characters and other animated elements using Layer Comps and Moho Exporter. As I assemble everything in the compositing program, I'll then swap the 24-bit background art with the higher bit-depth version.

Hopefully, we'll get support for 48-bit color or higher before too long.
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Well, at least on Mac the whole point of colour profiles is moot since none of the available codecs renders with reliable colour information. I'm using a pragmatic approach of "as long as the whole frame looks OK it is OK", and in professional workflows a colour grading pass is included anyway.
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