Photo appearance changes after being placed

[mercedesbbw]

I hope someone can please help me

Im using CS4 and creating a magazine I have the
Display at High Quality

And I am trying to Place 314 DPI Tiffs
that I have created in photoshop.

They are high quality images and they look PERFECT on photoshop.
I will attempt to put 10 photos of a model on 10 pages and 9 will work out perfect, at least 1 always comes out less then perfect.

I wont say totally pixelated but it look like a picture would look if you sharpened it way to much.
Every photo is saved the same and the same DPI and all of the others will look fine.

And its funny when I scroll over to the photo and my mouse is pressed on the scroll bar is I pass that photo it will look perfect and when I let go of the scroll bar it goes back to looking aweful.

But I see it perfect in photoshop and also in indesign when i scroll to it then before my eyes it changes back to a horrible photo.

Im so scared it will print in the horrible form, although I know its a good photo.

What am I doing wrong? how can i get the occasional messed up photo to show clear.

Im using Indesign CS4
in CMYK
the Tiffs are 314DPI
im placing them and making a photo box first neither way works.

Thank you very much

Mer

 

[MVerschuren]

Hi Mer,

One thing i would save the photo's in PSD (photoshop format).

1. Is it always the same page that gives problems ? or the same picture ?
2. Have you moved the picture that gives a strange effect to another page?
3. Have you made a HI-Ress PDF of the pages ? Are all pages the same quality on the PDF ?
4 it could be the display performance of the strange picture is set differently as the other pictures.


Marcel

 

[jdguru]

Two things:
1. Check your colour space. Change it to CMYK.

2. You have a grayscale image on the same page or a shadow effect.

jdguru

 

[eugenetyson]

If it looks good in photoshop it should print just fine. InDesign only offeres a proxy (a thumbnail lo-res version) of the image for layout and design purposes.

It's always important to print out your layout and/or export to PDF to see it in printed format/ hi-res screen viewer (like Acrobat).

Remember, InDesign is a page layout and design package. It's not for viewing things in hi-resolution, it's for laying out your pages for print.

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