Changing the background colour of an image.

Everyone thank you very much for your contribution. I'll see later if I'm able to figure it out!

Bitmap is great but it is black or white. Instead, in Photoshop, change the image to Grayscale.

1. Open the image in Photoshop

2. Under the menu choose Image>Mode>Grayscale. This will give your mage just one channel.

3. Open InDesign and place the image into a Frame

4. Click on the fill icon (which is empty) for the container to change the color. If the content is selected, you can also choose a different color other than black. (the icon will be black to start)

(Just FYI, if you do not fill it with a new color the background will be transparent once you change it to a grayscale)

harried33571444  wrote You could say that im a complete rookie. And is it possible to change the background colour of it? I am using indesign.

Hi Herman,

Can you tell us what you want to do with it? Right now you are getting lots of answers that may or may not address your question. As a self-proclaimed rookie, you may or may not have asked it correctly, so please clarify.

IF you are using InDesign and IF you want to change the background color as you asked, the image has to be converted to grayscale or bitmap and saved in PSD, TIFF, BMP, or JPEG. (It cannot be in RGB or CMYK.)

• Use the Selection tool to change the Fill for the white background.
• Use the Direct Selection tool to change the Fill for the gray portions.

Do you have Photoshop or Illustrator? How was the image made?

EDIT: If you don't have Photoshop, then scan again and change from "color" to "gray".

~ Jane

As Bob and Rob suggested, Photoshop is a better tool for this. However, I have a feeling that what you really might want to do is have a transparent background. That way you can place the signature over any color and that color will show through.

In Photoshop put the image on it's own layer, not a Background. If it opens as Background, click the padlock icon on the background to convert it to a regular layer.

Right click on the layer and choose Blending Options.

Move the Blend If This Layer highlight slider to the left.

Save the file as .PSD and place it into InDesign.

If you convert the color mode to Grayscale and flatten the signature in Photoshop, you can assign any swatch or color to the selected image in InDesign. Make sure you direct select the image and not it’s parent frame.

If you convert the mode to Bitmap in Photoshop, the parent frame over in InDesign can be transparent [None] fill.

In Photoshop, yes. In InDesign you might be able to fake it if it's a bitmap image. Place it and change the blend mode to multiply. Fill the frame with whatever color you want for the background.