11 Replies Latest reply: Aug 14, 2012 6:50 AM by Steve Werner RSS

    How do you color a Photoshop or Tiff document in InDesign with transparency?

    TwitchOSX Community Member

      I'm sorry to bring this up again, I've asked before but I don't need to do it often enough to remember and searching the forum didn't bring up any results. I must be searching for the wrong terms. Anyway, heres what I have.

       

      I got a high res JPG file of a 2 color logo. I need to color sep it. So, I took it into Photoshop, copied the inside (colored) area, created a new Photoshop document and pasted it into there. I converted the document to greyscale and made the image solid black. I saved as a TIFF. I bring into InDesign and I can make it any spot color in there that I want.

       

      I grab the rest of the image from Photoshop and save it solid black as a Photoshop document. It will remain black.

       

      Problem is, when I place the TIFF over the Photoshop document the TIFF has a solid white background. Obviously this won't work as the inside of the text needs to be color (the TIFF file).

       

      I thought that I remember reading about how to do this with a Photoshop document with transparency instead of using a TIFF file. Is this possible?

       

      This is all CS3 documents. Any thoughts? Thanks,

       

      Chris