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Illustrator showing transparency as black objects?

Community Beginner ,
Feb 04, 2018 Feb 04, 2018

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Hi,

I'm having the following issue in Illustrator. It started randomly. Everything used work fine and then one day this started occurring. When I use transparency effects (multiple, overlay, screen... etc etc) the object I have applied transparency to appears and a black object. See pics below, first pic is how it SHOULD look, second pic is how it DOES look.

I have tried updating my software but it still does not work. It happens across all files that use transparency, whether created on another computer or from scratch on my computer. My computer specs are also below in an image, and it handles images fine. It is only recently this has started happening.

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Community Expert , Feb 04, 2018 Feb 04, 2018

Try to disable the GPU performance option:

1-Press on the Rocket Icon in the top.

2-Remove the check mark from GPU Performance.

Then it will work well.

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Feb 04, 2018 Feb 04, 2018

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Try to disable the GPU performance option:

1-Press on the Rocket Icon in the top.

2-Remove the check mark from GPU Performance.

Then it will work well.

123.jpg

2222.jpg

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Adobe Employee ,
Feb 08, 2018 Feb 08, 2018

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Hi paulc,

I would like to know if the steps suggested by Omar worked for you, or the issue still persists.

Kindly update the discussion if you need further assistance with it.

Thanks,

Srishti

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New Here ,
Jul 30, 2018 Jul 30, 2018

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Hi.

The same happened to me. I did what Omar suggested and it worked.

This come when I converted a RGB file to a CMYK, and only on this is when the black stuff happened.

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New Here ,
Oct 09, 2019 Oct 09, 2019

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I had this problem but it ended up being because the placed file was in indexed colour mode. Converted to rgb and the problem was resolved.

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Sep 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020

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this converting to RGB solution worked, thank you so much , you are a saviour 😄

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Community Beginner ,
May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020

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This worked for me. Thank you!

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