InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Chapter 67. Colorizing Images

Both QuarkXPress and InDesign let you apply color to a grayscale or black-and-white (Bitmap) TIFF image. They both also let you apply a color to the background of an image's frame to create a "fake-duotone effect." However, when applying colors, XPress users have to get accustomed to using the right tool to select the right item.

If you want to colorize the image itself (only grayscale or black-and-white TIFF, JPEG, or PSD files), you must select it using the Direct Selection tool. As we explain in Chapter 64, this selects the graphic, rather than the frame. Then you can use either the Swatches or Color palette to apply a color to the image. Using the Tint slider on the Swatches palette has the same effect as choosing a Shade from XPress's Style menu.

InDesign also lets you change the fill color of the graphic frame by clicking on it with the Selection tool. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell InDesign to overprint the image on the background color, so it always knocks out. It's pretty ugly; we don't recommend it.

By the way, QuarkXPress's Contrast and Halftone features originated in early versions of XPress when most users didn't use an application like Adobe Photoshop. These days, most graphics professionals would choose to use Photoshop to manipulate their images with much more control than the crude settings XPress offers. Adobe has chosen not to implement these features in InDesign.