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Can anyone out there help me figure out why I am having trouble opening a gray scale tiff in ID and

May 15, 2012 12:04 PM

I have been opening tiffs and coloring them successfully for years, and all of a sudden it is not working. I made a logo in Illustrator, saved it as an ai, opened that in PS, saved as a grayscale tiff, and then opened it in ID. First the white background box was there, so I went back into Illustrator and knocked out group, then in PS preserved transparancy. I succeeded in losing the white box, but then in ID when I tried to color it, nothing happened. I checked all my ID settings, and just cannot figure out why this is happening.

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  • SRiegel
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    1. SRiegel,
    May 15, 2012 12:49 PM   in reply to Majoong2
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    Is there a reason you have to use this convoluted process, instead of coloring the image in Illustrator, and placing it in InDesign?

     
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    2. Majoong2,
    May 15, 2012 12:53 PM   in reply to SRiegel
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    not really, just that I often bring a b/w logo into an ID layout and then colorize it many times to compare. It used to be simple and in CS5 just isn't working, but I take your point. I can do that.

     
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  • SRiegel
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    3. SRiegel,
    May 15, 2012 1:04 PM   in reply to Majoong2
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    I don't know why the behavior would have changed - I don't have 6 yet to test it out. It just makes more sense to me to leave the logo as a vector, but there may have been a specific reason for that work flow.

     
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  • Gustavo Del Vechio
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    4. Gustavo Del Vechio,
    May 15, 2012 1:27 PM   in reply to SRiegel
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    Moved this discussion to the InDesign forum.

     

    Gustavo.

     
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    5. SRiegel,
    May 15, 2012 1:32 PM   in reply to Majoong2
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    Another option, if you need to be able to color your logos from within InDesign, is to create a clipping path on the logo in Photoshop. That way you can flatten the file and still get the transparent background. In 5.5 at least, the flattened greyscale tiff can be colorized in InDesign, while the unflattened one can't.

     
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  • Peter Spier
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    6. Peter Spier,
    May 15, 2012 1:39 PM   in reply to Majoong2
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    Colorizing in ID works for NON-transparent grayscales or Bitmap mode raster files only.

     

    A Bitmap mode image in a frame filled with [None] and colorized will appear transparent in the white areas, but you'll need to ad a clipping path for grayscale, or change the blend mode and live with overprints, which you probbly don't want.

     
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    7. Majoong2,
    May 15, 2012 1:39 PM   in reply to SRiegel
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    That is a good thought. I tried flattening the logo in PS and then deleting the white background, but that did not work. Thanks.

     
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    8. Majoong2,
    May 15, 2012 1:47 PM   in reply to Peter Spier
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    Thanks for all your suggestions, I will make a clipping path, or just colorize in IL. I think I may have made a mental mash-up of how I used to do this. I probably only colorized things which could be transparencies. Just can't recall. But thanks a lot!

     
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