Transparency in Indesign?
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- designquestions
Is it okay to print if I place a silhouetted image in Indesign?
Would a .jpg be better?
Does .png come out all right??
- deathboy0
has to be a bitmap for sure
- akrok0
73 dpi so it's pops. you should know that.
- Come on guys.designquestions
- ask better design questions
rodzilla - Ah c'mon guys. Give the guy a breakbabaganush
- Gnash0
You can use a PSD - better than a .png.
any transparencies will hold when you import to indesign.
- i_monk0
PSD or clipping paths.
- craigatkinson0
I made a post the same a few months back. Flattened PSD worked best if I remember.
PNG seems a strange file to print from.- Yes, don't print from PNG, some printers freak outbiusness
- arne0
atkinson, do you mean flattened to one layer but still floating on transparent background? because i am just about to start placing pngs in indesign. clipping paths won't do it because i have half-transparent areas too. will it mess my printfile?
- PSDs should work fine...
never had a problem flattened or unflattened.Amicus
- PSDs should work fine...
- freshdude0
What about .jpg on multiply setting?
- biusness0
Why not a flat TIFF with transparency saved?
Everyone gives TIFF's a hard time, but they're the solid ex-gf you can always rely on when you're in need, never let me down yet.
- Gnash0
The PSD can be one layer if you choose, but i've used mullti-layer psd's without a problem. If you just "flatten" the psd you'll end up losing any transparency - better to merge all the visible layers down to one layer - which leaves transparency intact.
mind your colour space, though.
- spendogg0
TIFF or EPS with clipping path < this is how it should be done
- wrong. old-school. but it can workGnash
- noGlitterati_Duane
- Why is this considered "wrong"? Just curious.contia1
- yes old school, but i have seen the results of what everyone else is talking about. have has some probs with psd'sspendogg
- Not wrong just no the only way to do it.Glitterati_Duane
- Glitterati_Duane0
I use un-flattened PSD's in InDesign all the time with varying degrees of transparency and have for years. I've never had a problem. I also use transparency within InDesign if I'm lazy and that works fine as well. The only thing I would be careful with is using Multiply and the other transparency effects. Sometimes they print fine and sometimes they don't.
- JerseyRaindog0
Presumably you'll supply a hi-res pdf for print. So you'll know if it's worked when you see how it comes out in your pdf.
But layered psds with transparencies are probably your best bet.- that's a false presumption... many printers prefer the InDesign packagemonospaced
- and you're right, PSD is the way to gomonospaced
- k_temp0
USE PSD!
Flatten or un-flattened, inDesign recognizes transparent background.
For example, if you sillo the yellow duck (remove white bckgrnd) and save it as psd, you can import it in inDesign and still keep the sillo of your duck.Tiff is ok, but you can't have transparency in tiff. We've been working with psd more and more now and our vendor seems to like it as well.