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October 2, 2017
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Huge problem with greyscale images

  • October 2, 2017
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Hello,

I'm having a big issue with indesign, trying to import an image, in greyscale, from photoshop. It's exported into jpg as greyscale, and imported into indesign, as a linked document.

Problem : the contrast is totally messed up in indesign :

How the image in photoshop looks :

How it looks in Indesign :

Note that the colo profile of my workspace is the same in photoshop and indesign, and that the image has a greyscale profile on both.

What is going on ?

Thanks

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    madal712!!!!!!!
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    October 2, 2017

    May be a dumb answer, are you viewing in High Quality Display?

    rob day
    Community Expert
    rob dayCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 2, 2017

    Display Perfomance setting has no affect on Color Management. There are a number of settings that do affect the preview of a grayscale. If you are not designing for print, setting the Transparency Blend Space to RGB and turning off Overprint Preview displays the grayscale as sGray ( 2.2 Gamma).

    If you are designing for print, setting he Blend Space to CMYK and turning on Overprint Preview displays the grayscale via the document's CMYK profile as it would print on the K plate. Indesign has no grayscale space and ignores embedded gray profiles.

    rob day
    Community Expert
    rob dayCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 2, 2017

    See my #11 here

    Re: Grayscale images with alpha channel get lighter?

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