From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Understanding "rich black"
From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Understanding "rich black"
- [Instructor] If you're creating a design that has large areas of black you might need to use a rich black instead of just plain old 100 K. And that depends on how your job's going to be printed, If it's printed on an offset press you probably need to create a rich black. If it's going digital, you probably don't have to. Well, how do you know? Well, you talk to your liaison at the printing company and they can tell you which way it's going to go. To make things easier on myself, I'm going to change a couple of things in my environment. By going up to Essentials, switching to the Advanced workspace just makes it easier for me to get to my swatches panel. And I'm going to tap the W on my keyboard, and that switches me to preview mode. What I need to do is change a preference, so on Windows, I'll go to Edit, Preferences and Appearance of Black. On the Mac, you'll go to InDesign, Preferences and Appearance of Black. And…
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Setting InDesign preferences3m 52s
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Create a three-panel brochure, folded size4m 8s
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Create a three-panel brochure, flat size3m 19s
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Working with color swatches6m 29s
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Understanding "rich black"2m 53s
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Creating correct color-plus-black gradients2m 15s
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Managing graphics9m 23s
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Using Overprint Preview in InDesign4m 12s
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Transparency issues across applications3m 17s
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Preflighting in InDesign4m 48s
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Packaging a print job4m 55s
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Generating PDFs6m 24s
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