Tiff & EPS Transparency Issue

[denice]

Greetings
I have a grayscale Tiff in photoshop placed in InDesign so I can color it with pantones. In Photoshop it has a transparent background, not a layer. When I place it in InDesign it has a white box. The only part that I can color is the logo itself. If I save it as an eps to preserve the transparency, I can not colorize it. Ive tried to drag the tiff from photoshop, it drug easily but I cant colorize it.
So what I want is a colorizeable tiff with out the white boarder.
Any suggestions?


Your help is appreciated
~D

 

[jimoblak]

Use a clipping path in Photoshop and save as a grayscale or bitmap TIFF. This file could be colored in InDesign.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[JohnKgreek]

>If I save it as an eps to preserve the transparency, I can not colorize it

EPS is a flat format. It does not retain 8bit transparency. It will only support clipping paths.

If using CS, open in Photoshop, select all and cut the image. Change mode to CMYK and add the spot channel in channels palette. Paste the image in the desired spot channel and save out to PSD.

Place that into InDesign CS. Note: PSD does not retain vector masked text so if you have text in the image, it will output at the ppi level the image was saved as.

If using InDesign 2, there is a workaround utilizing Illustrator 9+ to producing a monotone transparent spot image. But, there is some work to it and I will only post the directions if any have a need for it.

 

[denice]

I found the fix.

John as much as that makes sense, it takes too long. I would have 50 different images instead of just colorizing the tiff in InDesign.

Jim
I had it as a grayscale tiff in photoshop.

I had to select the image in InDesign CS, Choose OBJECT>CLIPPING PATH, then drop down the menu to Photoshop clipping path.

Thank you both for your support and information, it was greatly appreciated.

~D

Denice
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