Indesign / Noisy Images
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- Atkinson
Image in Bridge is fine, Lightroom / Photoshop is fine. When I put it in Indesign it looks over sharpened / noisy. When I export PDF from Indesign it's fine again. Why is that, what have I don't to Indesign to make that happen?
- uan0
view > display performance > high quality
- Atkinson0
yeah done that. All colour settings are the same too.
- Continuity0
Did you re-size your images with InDesign? I've noticed that when I do that, they look shit afterwards, until I export to PDF or something.
- Atkinson0
yeah maybe I did shrink them in proportion, I've never noticed the problem before though. Pretty bad if that's the cause though?
- bjladams0
are your images placed, inserted, imported or just opened-copied and pasted into indesign?
- monospaced0
In all honesty, InDesign is just for layout. If it looks great in Photoshop, that's how it'll look in the end. Unless, of course, you enlarge it beyond a reasonable resolution or something. The preview is not the end result; trust your links.
- Haha, I was just about to write something similar. :PContinuity
- +1bjladams
- monospaced0
I have noticed that the image preview does degrade drastically if you apply a rotation within InDesign, even at high-resolution. Maybe that's what you're experiencing.
- twelveandahalf0
I reckon one of two things are happening to your images:
1. The link to the location of the image file in question is broken. If so, simply re-link and the image should appear at full resolution.
2. You are placing .eps images – this causes InDesign to display them at low resolution as .eps files contain more information for print. InDesign correctly displays .jpegs, .tiffs, .pdfs or .pngs so you could use them instead of .eps files to get around the problem.
Hope this helps!
- Atkinson0
The images are just dragged from bridge onto the indesign doc. The most I'll do in Indesign is reduce the size and move the image - no rotation.
- stop using that method...just "place" themmonospaced
- this +1
Mr_Right
- ESKEMA0
if it prints / exports alright, don't bother with the preview. It's just that, a preview...
How much different is it from the "good" version?
- Miesfan0
If your display performance is set at High Quality there's no significant difference in the way color is displayed between PS and ID. The screen capture linked below shows a CMYK file with no profile assigned, side by side in ID and PS. The ID file has no profile assigned and the CMYK Working Spaces are the same for both programs:
You can check the RGB values of the screen capture in Photoshop and there is virtually no difference—I could only find an occasional 1 gray level in 1 channel shift.
If you are seeing a color change with a High Quality display setting then chances are you have a color management issue. Syncing your Color Settings doesn't guarantee matching color between the programs because you are just syncing the program's Working Spaces, and they don't necessarily color manage the documents (assigned profiles override the Working Space). If you are assigning profiles in PS, the assigned profiles need to match your ID doc's assigned profile (which could be different then the ID Working Space).