Three Vector Portraits
I was asked to create these three vector portraits yesterday. I spent 4.5 hrs yesterday and 7.5 hrs today working on them. While they aren’t exactly spitting images of the persons, they are pretty darn close and take on some of their characteristics. I’m pretty proud of them.
I’m having issues with using black in Illustrator. For some reason, the default black swatch isn’t true black and so after I’m all done with an image, I realize that the “black” I used is actually slightly grey or purple. I’ve had this issue on two separate computers, so I know it’s not how I have the swatches set up. But it might be something with the color mode – anyone out there know what the issue might be? I only notice it once I save as a .jpg, never while I’m creating.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Did you try going to Edit > Preferences > Appearance of Black and setting the On Screen drop down menu to “Display All Blacks as Rich Black” ??
I believe there is also an option for Output – Printing/Exporting, where you can set “Output All Blacks as Rich Black”
Just something to try tinkering with I guess
August 12th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Yeah, I checked and they’re both at those settings as default, unfortunately.
I go into the swatch and it *is* off in the color settings. What I don’t understand is *why* the process black (default black swatch) wouldn’t be straight black. It’s got some CMY in it and the shade is a little lighter. So it’s not that it just looks lighter, it actually is. I just don’t understand why.
August 13th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Did you try going to Edit > Preferences > Appearance of Black and setting the On Screen drop down menu to “Display All Blacks as Goth Black”??
Sometimes it’s set to “Display All Blacks as Rich Blacks”, but rich blacks have too much bling in them (thus the lighter shade). People commonly select the “Display All Blacks as Eddie Murphy Doing Raw Black”, but that blackness degrades over time as he continues to do encore cast comedies in which he plays all the parts. There’s also “Display All Blacks as Brown Is The New Black” but when you get down to it, it’s really just brown and not black at all.
Finally, there’s “Display All Blacks as Black Power”, but I wouldn’t touch that one.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:49 am
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