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Everything in my current Illustrator document appears washed for some reason.

New Here ,
Nov 27, 2020 Nov 27, 2020

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OK.  So I'm doing a project for someone in Illustrator, and at one point, the colours in the document became whitewashed.  I was wondering what was up with this, so I opened up a new document and pasted part of the document into the new document.  And the colours appeared as they should.  This makes me think that it's a problem with the document itself, but I'm not really sure what that would be.

 

This is how the document is meant to appear.

DJParkinsCreative_0-1606472164376.png

 

And this is how it actually appears.

DJParkinsCreative_1-1606472225514.png

 

Any ideas?

 

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Community Expert , Nov 27, 2020 Nov 27, 2020

Double-click on 'Layer' in the appearance panel. The opacity has changed at the layer level.

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The Layer may have been changed to a tempate which is a 50% dim by default.

 

Double click on that Layer in your Layers Palette and uncheck template if it is checked.

 

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I've just looked through all the layers on that document.  Not a single one of them had 'Template' checked.  What else could it possibly be?

 

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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Check that the transparency has not been reduced.

 

Also check the blendmode is set to something other than normal.

 

Screenshot 2020-11-27 at 11.39.40.png

Go Window> Appearence to check this.

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Yeah, I've just checked and everything is normal at 100% opacity.

 

If it helps, I think it's something more to do with the document itself rather than the elements (especially because, as I mentioned earlier, I copied and pasted one of the vector designs into a new document and the colours looked as they should do).  I have multiple different elements on here across a few artboards, and they all have this slightly washed appearance.

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Can you show the layers panel and the appearance panel with the layer selected?

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You mean like this?

DJParkinsCreative_0-1606482750735.png

Or this?

DJParkinsCreative_1-1606482864670.png

 

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Double-click on 'Layer' in the appearance panel. The opacity has changed at the layer level.

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Just went and did it.  Everything's back to normal now.  Thanks!

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