Halo effect on images with clipping paths imported from Photoshop into Indesign
Carmitage (7 points) | Fri, 2008-06-06 13:22I created clipping paths in photoshop around some shots of shoes to silhouette them for a catalog. The files were saved as tiffs per the client's request. When those shots are placed in InDesign on a solid color background, the clipping path somehow looks as if it has shifted, and you see some of the white background peeking through-kind of creating a "halo" effect. However, when you open the files in photoshop and check the path by doing the same thing...placing it in a new psd file with a solid background, there is no halo, and the image butts up cleanly to the path.
I've done some troubleshooting, like setting my view in InDesign at high resolution display, and the halo still shows up. I've check the flatness of the clipping path in photoshop and it's at a setting of 1, which should be perfect. I've even printed the images from a test InDesign file and no halo appears on the printout. Is this a problem with InDesign's screen view or might it be the psd file creating the problem? Any suggestions on how to remedy this issue would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks!
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Then it should be fine. BUT is this going to be used for display only online or printed?
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Thanks! The job will be printed. The client is insisting that she's never had this problem before, but post production on images was done by someone else. Not sure what they did, and I've never encountered this problem either. Thank you for your help! :)
But please note that SHOULD anything go wrong. Don't hold me responsible! lol
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Image previews are lo res, about 8bits if I remember right. As long as it doesn't print you're fine, though I'd make sure you have your path set as 'clipping path' in ps and even try an eps rather than tif for the clipped image for comparison.
Make a pdf/x-1a. Does the artifact still show up?
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Thank you for the suggestion. I'll give it a try and see what happens.
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I use the layer mask option, as well. Just save as a PSD file and it should come out gorgeous.
Someone educate me - what's the deal with people still sticking with TIFF images, anyhow, when PSD images appear to accomplish the same trick (plus leave the file more versatile)?
I've been using PSD images placed into InDesign ad designs for quite some time and have never run into a problem using them, but I've had other people "tsk" me for it and tell me I should be using TIFFs.
I've actually found in some cases compressing the TIFF files creates issues. But I really think that all depends upon the printers you go with.
I see now the reason for using TIFF files - they're more versatile if you're having to ship your designs to other places...
In my own work environment, though, we print our own ads, and every workstation here has all the Creative Suite apps, so there's really no reason for us - in our situation - to have to use TIFFs.
Thanks for the explanation. :)
i've never had a problem sending a compressed TIF out to a printer. if i did, i'd probably look for a new printer. ;)
you're right, though. if you have no need for them in your workflow, there's no need to save as TIF, just work with the PSD.
If you want more variables when you have a printing issue, by all means place PSD files. To me, a flattened Tif is not only smaller but easier to manage if there's a problem.
When you work in a fast-paced production environment and you have a 50 page doc with a printing error, the last thing you want to do is to have to poke through every layer of a bunch of multilayered psd files to find the needle in the haystack.
I use my PSDs to build Tifs.
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