Advertise here with BSA I’ve got a quick Photoshop 101 tip for print media. This can also apply to Illustrator, but I just filed it under Photoshop. We should all know by now that RGB documents are meant for screens, and CMYK documents are meant for printing. Therefore, when you print a CMYK document and you need a really rich black it’s important to remember one little teeny tiny thing: 100% K isn’t the blackest black you can get. More after the jump. Believe it or not, when working in CMYK for print media, 0 0 0 100 is not the best black you can get. If you have a keen eye, you might be able to tell by the image above. If you’ve ever printed out a file or document or design (a complex illustrator document, for example) and most of the blacks were black, and one or two of the shapes appeared more gray, there’s probably a simple explanation. The
