Hokusai Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I have a question concerning colour. When I create a new Affinity Designer document, the Default Black colour isn't 100% Black, it is 72 Cyan, 68 Magenta, 67 Yellow and 88 Black. Why that colour? If it was "registration" (100% of all colours) I could understand but it isn't. It is odd because I have set the colour space to be CMYK when I created the document. Is this a bug or is it supposed to be that way? For someone who has experience working with images for print it isn't as much of a problem (it is annoying but can be dealt with) but for someone who doesn't quite understand the printing process this could be a problem. On screen it looks black but if it were to be printed commercially, it wouldn't look so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted December 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 12, 2014 Hi Hokusai, Are you using the Mac App Store version or the latest beta? The latest beta build fixes this issue - it's simply that the default colours for the document were always made from the HSL versions of their colours, whereas now each document initialises with an appropriate colour from its own colour format. If I create a new CMYK document, switch to the line fill context and change colour models to CMYK I can see that the colour is now 0,0,0,100. In the version you're using you can simply choose the CMYK colour you expected and everything will obviously be fine, but the document defaults were obviously wrong but have now been fixed. Hope that helps, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 Matt, Thanks for the explanation. You are correct, I'm using the version that I bought through the Apple App store and not the beta. Do you recommend that I use the beta? I have been enjoying the Apple App Store version so far and I'm looking forward to seeing how it will mature. I know that you guys are working hard, hats off to you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted December 12, 2014 Staff Share Posted December 12, 2014 Hokusai, You don't have to choose between them since you can have both installed. They work independently from each other so there's no risks of one interfering with the other. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 MEB, Thanks for the info. I'll download the beta and give it a try. I was hesitant because I wasn't sure if running the beta along with the app store version was a good idea. I thought it might cause some problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted January 7, 2015 Author Share Posted January 7, 2015 Matt, I have a question for you about colour. Before you mentioned that this was fixed but it still seems odd to me. I have been using the latest beta but at least one place is still not 100% black (and my document's colour space is CMYK). It still shows up as C-94 M-84 Y-84 K-84. If this is supposed to be registration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 7, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 7, 2015 Hi Hokusai, It looks like you've found a bug - it'll be easily rectified. No, that swatch is supposed to be CMYK(0,0,0,100) and the white is obviously just supposed to be CMYK(0,0,0,0) and I think it's unfortunately just defaulting to RGB white and black, which converted to CMYK makes the colour you're seeing, sorry :( We'll get this last bit sorted soon - thanks for letting us know! :) Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hokusai Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Matt, Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure but I was guessing that it was a bug. I'm glad that it is something that is easily fixed. Keep up the great work! Hokusai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osang Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I saw this post, and no wonder this gives me a headache. I'm using a film for black separation and it's still dark grey. The nice thing for AD is I can copy-paste to Illustrator and correct the black color. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MattP Posted January 9, 2015 Staff Share Posted January 9, 2015 Hi osang, You should be able to reliably use the current Designer beta version for your needs... as long as you remember the small caveat just above - that the swatch of 'black' in the 'swatches' panel is actually RGB black by mistake, so just add your own CMYK black to your swatch and use that instead. Other than that, things should act as you'd imagine. Thanks, Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osang Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 Hi Matt, Thanks. I downloaded and using the Beta version instead. :) Regards, Osang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jyankee Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 I am using Affinity Publisher 1.9.3 and want the type and picture frames to default to 100% black not process black since I am working in cmyk for printing on newsprint and the printer finds it impossible to register process black especially for small text. What settings should I be using to create my document to use a default of 100% black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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