[stevo]

when I have a 90% black in illustrator it looks good and dark, but when I save for web, it seems to wash out...is there anyway to remedy this?

[sub]

Colour mode RGB?
Have you set-up your colour settings and profiles for web?

[version]

Originally Posted by sub

Colour mode RGB?
Have you set-up your colour settings and profiles for web?

i have but still get this issue.

[Dusteh]

90% k on its own should look grey, even 100% k won't look full-on black in actual print. Usually for a full rich black you would use a mix of other colours on top... there are different types of black in printing, I can't remember the specifics, but basically if you want a cold black you add cyan, warm = magenta and so on.

When it converts the CMYK profiles to RGB it matches it as best it can I guess, and CMYK to RGB is never a good conversion as the other thread in the forum highlights at the moment.

In RGB pick a solid black in the colour picker thingy, and have a gander at the CMYK settings its given it.. now set those to 100% k only, and see what you get.

Start a new document, pick RGB in the options instead of CMYK - sorted.

[hawken]

are you saving as PNG?

PNG in save for web has crappy gamma info. I use a program called GammaSlamma to remove the gamma info from the PNG and then upload that, it takes out the washed out look and is also useful for colour matching things in Flash etc.