Another InDesign question: colouring greyscale tiffs

[MacBoobsPro]

Im getting to grips with InDesign because I can no longer stand to work with Quark.

However while learning InDesign I am hitting a few non major obstacles that are relatively easy to solve if you know how.

Todays problem

In Quark I could import a bitmap or greyscale tiff and set its colour in Quark quite easily. In InDesign if I import a bitmap or greyscale tiff I can only change the colour of the background. How can I colour the actual tiff?

To get around this problem I am having to vectorise the files (which include halftone effects) and its killing my system not to mention taking loads of time.

 

[jeremy h]

Go to the content arrow/tool (the hollow one below the top black one in the tool palette).

Click on your graphic so it selects the content (as opposed to the box) - the bounding box should change colour.

Select a different colour - swatches / colour palette etc

 

[MacBoobsPro]

Go to the content arrow/tool (the hollow one below the top black one in the tool palette).

Click on your graphic so it selects the content (as opposed to the box) - the bounding box should change colour.

Select a different colour - swatches / colour palette etc

Ok now that is weird. I have been trying this for ages and it didnt seem to work. I was double clicking it and the bounding box changed colour but I couldnt change anything. I do it your way it works. I try it my way again and it now works.

Strange... anyhoo thanks mate

 

[jeremy h]

I know what you mean... It drove me mad to start with.

I have found though that compared to Quark, Indesign is a lot more precise or fiddly (according to your standpoint) with it's tools usage. It still feels to me a lot like illustrator...

One more tip though - if you're playing with logos vectors and imported ai's etc - watch your overprints - I'm getting a lot of overprints creeping in on white out stuff since I upgraded to CS3. Run with overprint preview or check it a lot!

 

[MacBoobsPro]

I know what you mean... It drove me mad to start with.

I have found though that compared to Quark, Indesign is a lot more precise or fiddly (according to your standpoint) with it's tools usage. It still feels to me a lot like illustrator...

One more tip though - if you're playing with logos vectors and imported ai's etc - watch your overprints - I'm getting a lot of overprints creeping in on white out stuff since I upgraded to CS3. Run with overprint preview or check it a lot!

New question of the day: Where is overprint view located?

EDIT: Doesnt matter I found it.