HELP! Changing back/foreground colours in indesign
era-design (6 points) | Sun, 2008-09-14 08:26PLEASE HELP!
I'm in the process of changing from Quark to CS2 Indesign.
But I'm encountering some problems!
In Quark you can change the foreground and background colour
of a greyscale tiff to which ever colour you require.
When I try this in Indesign it only seems to allow me to change the background colour? Am I doing something wrong or is this just
not possible in Indesign?
Any suggestions would be very useful
Cheers Matt
Have your picture seleted and instead of clicking on a swatch, drag the swatch on top of the picture
fidel
I definitely suggest not doing this. I'd venture to guess it's not going to RIP correctly. If you get an error down the road, you may forget what the cause is, and I HATE these errors that crop up. Why not just create a new tif with the color you need it to be and leave it at that.
Of course this isn't the only way to do things, I just prefer any raster images to be flattened and complete before I place them.
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The Direct Selection tool is the hollow white arrow tool. The image must be a grayscale image or bitmap in order to do what you want.
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Cheers guys - thanks for your imput - it tuns out my machine was just playing up or I was doing something wrong, when I tried importing the image again, there was no problem changing the back/foreground colour
of the tiff grayscale.
I appreciate your point natobasso - is there a quick way of changing the fore/background colours of a greyscale image in photoshop?
I find this effect sometimes a bit harsh and I prefer to make the image a duotone.
In PS:
• Image > Mode > greyscale
• Image > mode > duotone
• Here I can select 2 colors. I could pick from Pantones or if I was doing regular CMYK printing I could pick from the regular color picker.
If you don't like this subtle version and you want it to look like the FG/BG color changes you can do in Indesign do this in PS.
• Make your Greyscale image to CMYK by going to Image > mode > CMYK.
• Open your adjestment layers (The icon at the bottom of the layers palette that looks like a black and white cookie) and pick gradient map.
• On the left choose what color you would like to make black and on the right choose what you would like to make white. You can even get a different and/or psychedelic effects by choosing colors in between.
As Natobasso mentioned this would be a safer way of designing it because it will be more likely to RIP properly.
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Are you wanting it to be a spot color?
In photoshop, make your TIFF a CMYK PSD. In your channels palette, make a new alpha channel. Right click the black channel and then inverse and delete it out/add it to the new alpha channel. Delete out of CMYK channels. Double click on your new alpha channel. Change it to the desired SPOT color. Piece of cake.
Make sure to save with spot colors preserved.
Yep, they are called "layers". :)
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Natobasso
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Can i paste a black text in psd format and inverse it in indesign?
Please help and thanks a lot!
Regards Choon
Nope!
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