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1. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
Jeffrey_Smith Oct 26, 2010 11:59 AM (in response to TwitchOSX)For the art (TIF) that will be a spot, 1. you could make this art a bitmap, but this will only work if there are no tints to the color. (or)
2. You could apply a multiple effect to the spot art, but this will only work if the spot elements are knocked out of the black areas.
I would create all the art in Photoshop, as a multiple channel (spot) layered .psd file, but before I direct you down that path, will either suggestion 1 or 2 work?
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2. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
Stix Hart Oct 26, 2010 12:19 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)Do you realise you can look back through your old posts by clicking on your user name? A quick look there turned up this thread!
If the logo was simple enough I'd tend to just separate the two colours in photoshop, turn them into greyscale tiffs, then colour and group them in Indesign. That's just because I'm not very familiar with Photoshop, I'm sure Jeffrey's suggestion would be better, and better to have one linked image for something like a logo too.
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3. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
P Spier Oct 26, 2010 1:49 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)TwitchOSX wrote:
...I got a high res JPG file of a 2 color logo...
OK, this is probably really the root problem. Logos should nearly always be vectors. Is there some reason this is a jpeg instead of a vector file?
If it HAS to be raster, and the logo is, in fact, two colors, you should do it with a spot channel in Photoshop and save as .psd or .tif, and not worry about colorizing in ID. If you need a different spot than the one saved in the file you can use the Ink Manager in ID to alias the spot in the logo to the correct color for output.
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4. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
good dog Aug 13, 2012 2:25 PM (in response to TwitchOSX)very simple. Example, someone wants their signature in a document at the end of a say article or letter. Scan the sig as a grayscale, save as a .tif format and place it in InDesign, select it with the direct selection tool, (openface arrow) and choose a color from your palette be it a cmyk build or spot color.
Or you can convert a rgb or cmyk image to grayscale. Tag the .tif with color.
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5. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
BobLevine Aug 13, 2012 2:27 PM (in response to good dog)This thread is two years old and you reopen it with incorrect advice.
The question was about a file with transparency. That won't work.
Bob
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6. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
good dog Aug 13, 2012 4:15 PM (in response to BobLevine)ah, Sorry about that. Should of read the entire paragraph. So can it be done with a trap. background?
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7. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
P Spier Aug 13, 2012 4:57 PM (in response to good dog)No
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8. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
good dog Aug 13, 2012 5:46 PM (in response to P Spier)No? Please elaborate.
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9. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
good dog Aug 13, 2012 5:47 PM (in response to P Spier)Ok. Didn't think so. Thanks.
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10. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
P Spier Aug 14, 2012 2:38 AM (in response to good dog)good dog wrote:
No? Please elaborate.
What's to elaborate? it doesn't matter how you crop or mask an image. If it has transparency it has transparency, and images with transparency cannot be colorized using the method you described.
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11. Re: How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?
Steve Werner Aug 14, 2012 6:50 AM (in response to P Spier)If you need confirmation, Peter is correct. If you want to colorize transparent images, you must do it in Photoshop.




