Comments on: Colorizing Grayscale Images (with transparency)

By: Rae

Rae — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:16:05 +0000

It’s just the image that won’t print. I’ve tried resaving them as psh, flattened, with and without compression, new name, but no luck. . .

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:44:38 +0000

Hm. That seems strange, Rae. Just the image doesn’t print? Or the whole page? I don’t have a good solution for you, as I haven’t seen this problem before.

By: Rae

Rae — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:07:54 +0000

I have a problem that sometimes my images won’t print when I apply color with swatches palette to grayscale image. How can I fix this problem?? It seems random?

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:29:00 +0000

You know, this is the only place I can see mention of this problem. While your work-around works ok, it really isn’t a long-term solution for what seems to be a bug in the software. It really seemed to start doing it out of nowhere, as well, perhaps a bug in one of the updates, but its driving me b.s.insane. Thanks for this work-around, though, it helped me get ahead in my project.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:11:16 +0000

Piers, nothing wrong with what you did at all! I should have mentioned in my post above that if you know it’s only going to be in that one color, then go ahead and choose that in the duotone mode. The ink aliasing route I talk about is good when you’re not sure what color you’re going to assign to the image.

By: Piers

Piers — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:37:09 +0000

I had need recently for a spot colour image from a greyscale with transparency.. I wasn’t able to quickly find an immediate solution so I made my greyscale a monotone of the CORRECT colour then saved the image as a PSD PDF and imported that.. worked great!!! anything wrong with that?? incidentally just got CS2.3 can’t wait to get my hands on CS3

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:45:40 +0000

This worked for me! I’m happy. The job was at the press and needed the one color conversion. Thank you!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:56:29 +0000

Jeff: That’s funny! Have you tried doing any of this in QX? Can you assign color to PSD or grayscale TIFF images that contain transparency in QX? Can you alias one spot color to another?

There’s no doubt that this is a painful workaround to what should be a simple solution, but that’s sort of what this whole site is about: workarounds and tricks. If you want comparisons of QX and ID, check out QuarkVsInDesign.com.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:26:30 +0000

well, now i see the advantage over quark

not!