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I have customer files that were created in Indesign CS3 and CS4 with a placed, colored grayscale image on a colored background. The image is inverted but I cannot seem to replicate this. I know you can do this easily in Quark but how do you do this in Indesign? There is no invert effect.
Thanks,
Mike
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That effect in Quirk was an accident... it tried to knock the placed image out of the background colour - 'dot for dot'! Printers' nightmare...
In InDesign (CS4) you use the direct/indirect selection tools to address the image or frame background. If you want a greyscale image on a coloured background you can set it to 'multiply', depending what type of image it is, you will need to decide whether to overprint at press is acceptable.
If it is not acceptable, then add your background colour in Photoshop rather than InDesign for ease of control, where you can mix the colours if it is a photo. If it is a solid shape then use a clipping path or alpha masking to knock out as required.

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