Comments on: InDesign Eye Candy, part 5: Blending a la Mode

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By: Mami

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By: Fashion Blog

Fashion Blog — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:05:58 +0000

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By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:38:54 +0000

Pablo-

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

The trick is this:

1. In Photoshop, create a CMYK profile that will convert all equal amounts of R,G, and B to black. You do this by going to Color Settings > Working Spaces > Custom CMYK and setting the Black Generation to Maximum.

2. Save that profile as “MaxBlack” or something similar and if you’re on a Mac, put it in Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended. You may also need to relaunch InDesign to get it to see the profile.

3. In InDesign, set your document’s Transparency Blend Space to Document RGB (in the Edit menu).

4. In Color Settings, make sure your CMYK working space is something other than MaxBlack.

5. Export a PDF. In the PDF Export dialog box choose Output > Color Conversion > Convert to Destination, and for Destination choose your custom CMYK profile (MaxBlack).

The resulting grays will be made of only black ink.

By: Pablo T.

Pablo T. — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:29:54 +0000

> There is at least one way to trick InDesign to making it pure black, but it’s not for the faint of heart (and isn’t worth the trouble if you have Photoshop at your disposal to make a true grayscale). But if anyone’s interested, let me know, and I’ll describe it in the comments.

Could you, please? Thanks in advance.

By: Alan Gilbertson

Alan Gilbertson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:49:29 +0000

One of my favorite variations on this theme is to put a colored ground under a photograph and use multiply or occasionally luminosity. It can be a terrific way to pull the colors in a layout together, especially when you want the image a little subdued or monotone anyway. Other blend modes can create special, ah, “creative effects,” but they’re more limited in general usefulness.

By: Jean-Claude Tremblay

Jean-Claude Tremblay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:43:07 +0000

Mike, stop taking that medication right away please!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:54:04 +0000

Hey, great — thanks!

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:30:42 +0000

Jeremy-

Sure, just change the blending mode of the solid color frame to Luminosity. It completely flattens the image into a uniform brightness and the only detail you see is color variation. Similar to looking at a LAB image in Photoshop and turning off the L channel.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:09:26 +0000

I see how you get uniform saturation, but is there any way of getting uniform lightness (or maybe I mean uniform luminosity)?