How To Get Rich Black In Adobe Illustrator

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[@brittnclifton]

This is SO, SO, SO helpful and just saved me from a disaster when going to print for signage. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!

[@rhiannonwatson8164]

Thank you!!! you saved my life. Great video!!!!

[@yianbarrettaguero940]

Thank you very much. Had this issue for a very long time.
Greetings from Panamá!

[@noxmoonyisadork]

Woah thank you so much for sharing this! Really helped a lot ^ ^

[@AlexSerranocreativefeather]

Beautiful, Thanks a lot, really helped

[@melbiel3708]

Thank you very much for the info. God Bless.

[@christywoods2583]

Oh my good god thank you so much! I kept changing the CYMK values and it kept reverting back to only being 100%K ugh thank you again!

[@MonstaUsagi]

Extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@Rollyourown1]

You helped me a lot!!! Thank you

[@Hutututu]

Great Video @WillPaterson. I had this problem for a very long time. One thing that I want to ask you is that I use The HSB Slider & I want to know how I can use that Color setting (HSB) to make a Rich black. Is there a way Sir ??

[@jaferalbahli]

Thanks Dear good job but i ask you
when i can use Black and Rich black in my design in illustrator ?????
Thanks for your time

[@willpatersondesign]

For most printing companies yes. because you don't want to go above 350 when doing rich black! :) But it really all depends on what printing service you're using :)

[@FusionEffectsPro]

Thank you so much!

[@_agent47_]

Why is some of my gray now red? I've made a fade from white to black by using the feather effect. Now the border between black and dark gray is red...

[@chrispham6085]

Thank you!

[@naomisaurus7114]

Awesome!

[@James.5703]

Good one. cheers la'

[@sholadipeolu]

very very helpful!

[@ianriddell5635]

much appreciated!

[@StephPais]

Thanks so much !!!!

[@fxue_]

Thanks!!!

[@x0scimy0x]

I may have misunderstood, but towards the end I think you said if you're doing printwork, you DON'T want it to be in CMYK. But if you aren't working in CMYK, when you go to print it, won't the blacks look duller than on the computer? Sorry if that was confusing.

[@nathan_cooper47]

CMYK colour mode is specifically for printing same as RGB is for monitors, near the end he was just stating that you can change the default black to a richer black by changing the settings. He also stated that if you changed the options in your general preferences to 'Display all blacks as rich black' and still use the default black, the colour will turn out as the same dark grey of illustrator's default 100% K black when printed but on screen would look like rich black, which is i think the part you were confused on. Hoped this helped :)

[@charli3AM]

hella helpful

[@saikopiratos]

if i save my file as an AI. and import it to premiere its gray as F even if i change it to 0-0-0 in RGB

[@hamza6227]

same

[@Rich_1]

thx ;)

[@HappyFhantum]

Is 50,50,50,100 more common than 75,68,67,90? (which is what I've been using for rich black in print for a year or so now)

[@GOGOAKUMAN]

What i have seen is 40,60,60,100. That is what Printers want as full black in Europe.

[@vievitelair]

C : 60
M : 40
Y : 40
K : 100
true black code, no need for a 6 minute video tbh