InDesign problems placing PhotoShop images

For some unknown reason I cannot work up a new image in PhotoShop and then use the "PLACE" command to put it into InDesign. I can "PLACE" older images, but not new ones. What did I do wronmg?

Need more information. What format are the images from Photoshop? What version of Photoshop? What version of InDesign?
And what is the symptom of the problem? An error message? Misplaced content with visual anomalies? What?
- Dov

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Problem placing Jpeg images

Hi Group,
I'm having a problem placing Jpeg images in DW CS3. Some come
in and display
themselves just fine. Others come in as what appears to be
the file name
displayed as a link, blue text and underlined. Previewed in a
browser, when
I click the link the message is:
The image
"file:///C:/Users/Bob/Documents/CUT/CSL%20Web/My%20Assets/Sandy-Kirk_Web.jpg"
cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
I've looked at the properties of these different images and
dont have a clue
what the problem is.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Bob

Look at the line you pasted into your reply and note that
it's a link
pointing to your hard drive. Of course that will never work
on the web.
Such broken links are often the result of an improperly
defined local site.
What happens if you remove that image and insert it again,
then save the
page? Is the link still broken?
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> Hi Group,
> I'm having a problem placing Jpeg images in DW CS3. Some
come in and
> display
> themselves just fine. Others come in as what appears to
be the file name
> displayed as a link, blue text and underlined. Previewed
in a browser,
> when
> I click the link the message is:
> The image
>
"file:///C:/Users/Bob/Documents/CUT/CSL%20Web/My%20Assets/Sandy-Kirk_Web.jpg"
> cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
> I've looked at the properties of these different images
and dont have a
> clue
> what the problem is.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> Bob
>
>

Colour change when placing Photoshop image

Help needed! In Indesign CS4 I have created a template and within the program have made a couple of rectangular boxes filled with 20% black, placed on the master pages. These have text placed over them in the main pages.
Placing a Photoshop CS4 .psd image in a page of the document, changes the colour of these boxes automatically to a darker colour.- both on screen and printing. If I delete the Photoshop image, the colour of the boxes changes back to what it's supposed to be. I've checked the fill colour of the boxes with and without the image file being placed and both times it says 20% black.
I've checked the Assign Profile settings in both Indesign and Photoshop and both say sRGB IEC61966-2.1 but never having gone into these settings before, I don't know if that's correct.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Thanks.

I will check the Photoshop file to see if this is a problem. As a workaround, I have saved the image as a jpg and placed in the Indesign document and this seems to work fine.
Thanks for this suggestion.

Question about placing Photoshop images in Illustrator

Hi
Someone asked me for advice because they are trying to place a Photoshop image in Illustrator.
Is this a good idea?
It's unknown whether they are trying to Livetrace the image, Or just leave it sittin' pretty, so they can sketch around it and have it visible as a "placed" image before they export it to InDesign.
I don't think that they want to live trace it, i think they just want to put the image there so they can see it as they work.
What are the options?
Can these photoshop items in Ai become linked like they do in InDesign without any problems?
From what i hear it is not a good idea to "place" Photoshop images in illustrator, without live tracing them, because everything in Ai needs to be vector anyway.
thanks for any advice

>havent you noticed that whenever you live trace and expand a color image, it becomes thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) of separate vectors and consequently becomes very hard to move and work with?
Which is a very good reason not to do that.
>How do you just place the image in illustrator as sort of a placeholder image or linked image (non embedded) and work with it quickly as part of an Ai sketch, without needing to vectorize everything upfront? (by that i mean live trace/ expand
File> Place. Done.
>I've never seen someone trying to use raster images in Ai like it was a normal everyday thing.
You need to get out of the house more. It is done all the time.

How do I fix this problem placing Photoshop TIFF into InDesign?

I am trying to place a Photoshop TIFF into an InDesign document but I am getting a pixelated/jagged version of the TIFF. What could be causing this? The original art looks fine in Photoshop. It is a TIFF of less than 8 MB, CMYK, about 3.5 by 3.5 inches. It includes image and text both created in Photoshop. When placed into an InDesign file, the art looks awful and the text is even worse. The text can barely be deciphered. I tried exporting the TIFF to PDF and placing that file, but it also looks bad.
Any solutions anyone?

How it looks in ID is basically irrelevant. How does it look in print or an exported PDF? Did you scale the image in ID?
In Photoshop, which is a pixel editior, you are viewing the actual image pixels. In ID, which is a page layout app, you are looking at a screen preview jpeg that may or may not look terrific, depending on the image. If you've scaled the image you are chagning the "effective resolution" and it may not be high enough. You didn't mention waht it was in Photoshop at the saved dimensions, so it's hard to know if there was ever enough resolution to prevent jaggies. It's highly unlikely that text created in photoshop will NOT look pixelated unless the effective resolution is well north of 600 ppi.

Placed Photoshop Images

I'm sure this question has been asked many times and I'm sorry if I am repeating a post that has already been answered.
My problem is this:
When I place a Photoshop PSD file into my InDesign CS4 document, all the other images on that particular page appear to go lighter.
When I print the document or export to PDF - the page containing the placed PSD does indeed come out lighter.
When you delete the PSD image off the page, you literally see all the images on that page return to their true brightness.
Any suggestions would be gratefully welcome.
Thank you
Jonathan

There is a greyscale JPEG (have also tried using a greyscale EPS and TIFF) and a greyscale PSD.
All images are Greyscale with Black & White ICC
When I place the greyscale jpeg on the page, it looks fine. As soon as I place the greyscale PSD, the jpeg becomes lighter. If you delete the PSD, the jpeg goes back to it's true appearance.
I have tried working in a fresh document and re-saving the image files in case something has become corrupt.
Another route I have tried is copying the greyscale file into a blank CMKY file and placing the greyscale image solely on the black channel. The black channel looks fine but then when you click on the composite channel - the image appears lighter.
It appears I am going to have to go 'old skool' and created the whole page layout in Photoshop!!
I have been using Photoshop and InDesign for years - I'm at a loss to why I'm suddenly not getting the results I desire
I appreciate your help.
Regards
Jonathan

Problem Placing an Image

How do i place an image onto an illustrator page? I have a TIF image that i edited in photoshop and I'm trying to place on a 8.2x10.5 illustrator page. When i do this the image looks all pixely and weird (example photo below)
http://i45.tinypic.com/19b9jp.png
How can i solve this? Both images are 300dpi.
I would appreciate it if someone could help me out.

File>Place!
Are you scalintgg it up in Illustrator? If so that is not a good idea. Place it at 100% and leave if you need to enlarge i do so from the oringal file in Photoshop.
Also keep in mind that the magnificaion if set to an odd percentage will sometimes make it look pixelated even tthough it is high res image. Increase the magnification to say 200 or 300 and you will see the images is quite fine it is just the preview that looks pixelated here is a 300 ppi image placed in AI looks pixelated but look below when magnified 400% pretty clear and sharp but not pixelated that is what is hapening to you you zoomed out at an odd magnification and it just appears pixelated in the preview.
They're the same image

How do I attain color separation in InDesign that containes Photoshop Images?

Thank you for your time.
I have to submit an ad that will print black with spot color (Cyan). Below (Image 1) is the ad that does not contain color separation. The publisher said that I have to provide an ad that allows for color separation, without the ad being changed. Below (Image2) shows how the ad changes when I apply the color separation, with only Cyan being selected. I have also included (Image 3) my color settings; I'm not sure if my color settings have a part in my ad changing. If you know what I need to do to fix this issue, I would greatly appreciate your help.
Thank You.
(Image 1)
(Image 2)
(Image 3)

If your ad contains only Black and Cyan inks you should be able to send the composite PDF and it will separate in the RIP at the publisher. If this is not waht the publisher wants, you need to get verys specific instructions from them. We can help you to understand those instructions if necessary.
The key here is that your images must be true grayscales or Black/Cyan duotones and you must not use any 4-color black elsewhere in the ad. Looking at your screen shot of the cyan plate it looks like the images are grayscale and OK, but your background gradient and black caption bars are showing cyan ink, so unless you used a cyan/black with no magenta and no yellow in them you have a problem. RGB colors cannot be used here.

Pixel-slop in Photoshop image rotation

See three small bitmaps attached: <<original.bmp>>; <<45cw.bmp>>; <<45ccw.bmp>>.
The original is a simple 21x21 pixel test pattern, black except for white pixels in the center and corners. It's appearance should be the same whether rotated 45 deg clockwise or counterclockwise, and the appearance should keep the symmetry of the original.
I used "Bilinear Interpolation". I used a gamma = 1 profile, and to be extra-safe set Edit>Assign Profile>Don't Color Manage ...
I set the background color to black in the toolbox. Thank you John Joslin.
Then I rotated the original image 45 deg clockwise and counterclockwise to make the other two files. Why to the resulting images look so different? Why are they lacking in symmetry? With the other interpolation methods too, clockwise and counterclockwise rotations give quite unlike images. A partial explanation could be that Photoshop rotates about a point not in the image center, but this doesn't explain enough. I tried 20x20 patterns which showed similar problems.
I'm mostly interested in bilinear interpolation because this is supposed to conserve the total pixel value. Each white pixel in the original has value 255, so the blob resulting from this pixel should have total value 255. Look at <<45cw.bmp>>.The blob on the left has total value 69+94+13+5+18+1=200. The blob on the right is an almost perfect antipode with total value 1+18+6+13+95+68=201. The blob at the bottom doesn't resemble the side blobs and has total value 42+56+40+3+55=196. The blob at the top has total value 40+41+56=137. Clearly Photoshop has lost the top of the top blob. (It also does this with 45 deg counterclockwise rotation, and also with 135 deg rotation.) The blob in the center has total value 49+49+48+47=193. All of the blobs fall far short of 255. Photoshop might be excused for messing up edge pixels, but not a central pixel.
Photoshop messes up rotation at the single pixel level. I made a test pattern with clusters of 4 white pixels and the rotation of this did conserve the total value for the central four. Edge pixels still showed problems. Photoshop image rotation appears to be based on sloppy code.

Then how do you account for my post 11? How to you account for X2 detecting a extra hidden row on the left and top side of of the image? There is no hidden row on the bottom or rightside.
Adobe digimarc did not detect anything.
Paint Shiop Pro X2 digimarc did.
I have posted the proof. It is not my fault that Adobe digimarc addon cannot detect the watermark.
The watermark is there.
dcouzin wrote:
Fantasy watermark. First of all a black pixel isn't a watermark. It can't "hide" a watermark. Hiding has no meaning in this context. If the file header has a digital ID that's fine, but it's not "hidden" in the image, not under a black pixel.
All of your reported O=255 data is not in the image either. There aren't enough bytes in the file to specify opacity at each pixel. This is a 24-bit RGB image not a 32-bit RGBO image. Maybe O=255 is specified globally somewhere in the header, but I don't see "FF" anywhere in the header. More likely full opacity is presumed for a RGB image.
THERE IS NO WATERMARK.
I suggest you download BinViewer 2.0 and BinEditor 2.0 which are freeware. Look at the file <<original.bmp>>. You will count 114 zeros between the first "FF FF FF" and the next "FF FF FF". 114 divided by 3 equals 38 so "00 00 00" appears 19 times between the "FF FF FF"s. Hey, that's the 19 black pixels between two of the corner white pixels. Now you can use BinEditor 2.0 to change some of the "0"s or "F"s to anything you want. You can write "dec9" in there. Save and open in Photoshop to see what you've painted. It's great fun creating colors and shapes by poking numbers into a file. It's the opposite of Photoshop's glistening gliding paintbrushes, and it has a powerful truth.
This is why I want to know what Photoshop does when, for example, it rotates an image.

Why does my high res photoshop image appear blurry when placed in InDesign and Exported as PDF?

Hi there,
I have a problem I've been trying to solve for days but just can't find the answer anywhere on the internet.
I have a large, good quality photoshop file (2268 x 979 pixels, resolution 300 pixels per inch). When I place it into InDesign, the image appears OK (I've changed my display settings to HIGH) - I then resize it in InDesign to 10% and the file still looks great! Then, when I export it as PDF (high quality print) it looks blurry.
Does anybody know why? The strangest thing is, I've placed other photoshop images in the same InDesign file and they look crystal clear. It is just this one I am having trouble with. I've saved it in the same folder as the other pictures, I've tried placing it as psd. , jpg. , photoshop pdf, png. everything...
The image looks great in both photoshop and indesign, only when exported as pdf it looks awful.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Many thanks in advance!
Weronika

It's probably the extreme reduction -- you're throwing away 90% of the image pixels and interpolating, and then using jpeg compression on top.

Problem placing images in InDesign 5.0

I'm using InDesign 5.0 for a catalog project. On other catalogs I've placed hundreds of images without a hitch, but suddenly I am having this problem: After successfully placing several images in a document I get the spinning ball after selecting another image to place. It occurs after I've selected "Place" and have gone back to my InDesign doc. This problem began after I'd selected 25 images all at once and successfully placed them. After that I can't even select a single image without the spinning ball. I have to Force Quit and relaunch. I've tried restarting, shutting down for 20 seconds, making new documents (thought it might be a Save-As issue), but can't get more than a handful of images onto the layout before it has this problem again.

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Using Transparent Photoshop images placed into Indesign CS5

Placed a transparent photoshop image with clean/beautifully sharp mask inside my Indesign design.
Added a drop shadow with Indesign and gave plenty of space with the outside frame thingy.
However when I export the PDF my round image mask shows a blunt ugly edge on my perfectly round masked circle. The photoshop image is perfectly round... How come Indesign blunts the right edge?
The image is not being clipped by the frame, I have given it plenty of space. This seems to be a CS5 issue as my coworkers who have similar file setups on their CS4 files get no circle blunting! We just got the proofs back today and is not just a quirk of the pdf rendering on our screens.
Thanks!

Ah, says I'm using acrobat 5 compatibility setting. My flattener options seem to be greyed out at PMrip ?
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Problem with photoshop automatically resizing placed images

Hi,
I have PS6. I have images that are 144x100 px. When I use file>place ps resizes the image to 108x75. I can't figure out how to make ps quit resizing my pictures. Anybody know?
Thanks

When Pasting, Dragging, copying and placing an image Photoshop will copy all of the image being duplicated original pixels to preserve the image pixel quality the image quality. If the receiving document has a different DPI resolution the image may look a different size in the receiving documents because of the number of pixels added to the document that has a lower or higher dpi resolution. If the image is being placed in if the image pixels exceeds the receiving documents canvas size. Photoshop may scale the smart object layer to fit within the canvas that depends on the users Photoshop's preference. All of the images original pixels are still there in the embedded object. In my Photoshop Collage Scripts I always transform all placed images to 100% size incase Photoshop scaled the placed image. For you can not get the scale percent Photoshop used. Once I know I have the image at 100% size I can use the layer bounds to get the actual number of pixels there are in the placed image. Once I know that I can calculate the scale I need to use to resize the image to fit the area being populated in the collage template. Once resized I center it into place and mask off any excess image pixels.

Colour problems when printing - Photoshop image

I have created a small header image in Photoshop. It consists of a background with a number of layers using blue and grey (the grey colour is RGB: 202, 202, 202). I placed the image in InDesign and then converted to press quality PDF for printing. In InDesign I have also created a number of shapes (rectangles with rounded corners) which I have made the same grey colour (202, 202, 202). On the screen everything looks the same grey, however, when I convert to a PDF and print, the grey in the image I placed from Photoshop looks a completely different grey colour to the rectangular shapes I created in InDesign with the same background colour. The grey colour I am using is all 202, 202, 202.
I ahve checked colour synching in bridge and it is correct across the creative suite. I have checked output preview in Acrobat and they are the same. I have also checked profiles (assign profiles) in both PS and ID and they are the same.
The printer is an HP Colour laserjet 3800DN and when i do a etst print, the colours all appear to be okay.
Why when I print are there completely different shades of grey?

Hi,
Just did all that. I converted imager mode in Photoshop to CMYK and created a rectangle shape with the same grey colour underneath it and printed it directly from Photoshop. I then converted image to PNG and placed in InDesign, created a grey rectangle underneath the banner image and printed and finally I converted to press quality pdf and printed. All still have the same colour difference between the grey colours.
The weird thing is the Photoshop grey looks weird - kind of washed out with some magenta in it.
I am beginning to think it is printer problem.

Creating a magazine from Photoshop Images and transferring them to InDesign

Hello,
I'm in the process of creating a magazine. I have already started created the pages including their layout in Photoshop. I have CS4 and I want to transfer those images to InDesign and also incorporate Flash to produce a web-base magazine. How do I transfer those Photoshop images (files) into InDesign and also incorporate Flash.
Attached are some finished pages so that you will have something to show me, in detail, on how this process is done, and/or IF, it can be done.

Hi, smitty212.
Hopefully everyone can agree to ignore some of the dialog above.
Your question is a bit difficult, in large part because it appears that you did a lot of work in a way that could be very difficult to transfer, but you haven't given us full information about what you really have and what you need.
Generally speaking, editable text in Photoshop is not very flexible. It's not easy to manage large amounts of text there, and depending on how you have used it, it may be nearly impossible to get the text out without retyping it.
The normal use of InDesign, as you've probably gathered by now, is to place the text in text frames (either by typing or by File > Place-ing it from another application, or maybe cut-and-paste but probably not), and to place graphics in graphics frames (again, with File > Place. Never with cut-and-paste, which causes all manner of problems).
Ideally, then, you'd have all the images in your layout as seperate files, and the text, too, and you could compose the layout as normal.
The hard part will be rescuing the text. You may be able to cut and paste it out of Photoshop.
It is possible that you might be able to save some work by converting pieces of the Photoshop layout to smart objects and placing those into InDesign.
One thing to consider is how resolution-independent your output is going to be. In Photoshop, everything is a pixel. So if the work was done at a low resolution, it won't support resizing in InDesign. This is especially true of text that has been rasterized (converted to pixels). But if everything was high enough resolution in Photoshop, you may be able to get away with just placing the Photoshop images in InDesign. It won't be easily editable, but maybe that's ok.
I hope this helps.

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