CSE3 - Making images in color for print

I am only used to one color printing. I'm using CSE3 and I'm supplying something in 2 colors. When the printers output, they will use certain color inks, and they told me I could use any 2 colors in my file.
1) How to I make the image a color? I have a .tif and I'm trying to colorize it, and ... nothing. The image is greyscale. I seem to only be able to colorize the border, not the image itself (which is just a black image).
2) Can I make an inserted pdf file a color?
The only thing I can seem to make a 2nd color is text.
Thank you.
Cyndy

PDF files are a "container format" -- they can contain a lot of different kinds of image data, and the challenge is extracting the data without damaging it. That is, extracting the data without lowering the quality.
PDF files can contain TIFFs. They can contain JPEGs. They can contain CCITT fax images. They can contain straight-up 1bpp bitmaps. And of course they can contain text and lines and all sorts of vector art.
If the PDF file is vector, ideally you use a vector tool to set its color. That would be Adobe Illustrator, most likely.
If the PDF file contains a raster image, you will want to extract the raster image without lowering its quality, potentially manipulate it in Photoshop, and then place it in InDesign.
In Acrobat Pro, Save As is not a good choice. That will save the entire PDF file, not just images, and it will rasterize any vector components. It will also change the resolution, which can potentially lose information, and often just give you a bigger file with the same effective resolution.
Best choice in Acrobat Pro is to go to Tools > Advanced Editing > Touchup Object Tool, then right-click and Edit Image. That'll open it in Photoshop. Then you can proceed to save it.
In order to tint an image in InDesign, you'll need to have a monochrome (photoshop: Image > Mode > Bitmap) or grayscale image saved in PSD, TIFF, BMP, or JPEG.
In short: tell us what produced the PDF file and what kind of file it is.

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