Colouring Tiff files as Spot Colours

[amidge]

I use ID CS2, when I place a photshop CS2 tiff file in ID ontop of a 4 colour .psd and colour it as a spot colour, the transparence does not work and I cannot see the 4 colour image behind it.

We cannot put the mutiply on as this does not work when ripping the file for plate & printing.

When i used quark you could bring a tiff file in and it would work fine, but we use ID now.

Can anyone help!!!

Andy

 

[jmgalvin]

TIFF is no problem in Indesign, nor is spot vs. process. Out of 20 something year old habits, I invariably use tiff as opposed to psd.

I don't know what you mean by coloring the tiff in Indesign so I don't know how this would effect any transparency.

Are you sure that you did not mistakenly select another object, other than the tiff, when you were applying transparency? As a test, you can create a new blank layer and put the tiff on that layer and then apply transparency.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[RegistrationMark]

I assume you mean that you are colorizing a greyscale TIFF. Obviously 4 color TIFFs do not colorize. Select said tiff with the open arrow, fill it with your Pantone, then multiply it in the Transparency pallete.
Mark