White Logo on Dark Photo

Does the white background show up when printing? Or are you describing what you're seeing on screen? If just on screen, you might also check the Display Performance of both the PAGE and the logo IMAGE object. To check your document's view settings, click on View from your top main menu. From the list, choose Display Performance and then check High Quality Display.

If your document view is already set to this, then find your trouble image and select it from your layout. Once selected, right-click for a pup-up menu. Click Display Performance (this time it's specific to the selected image), then toggle the High Quality Display. You could also select Use View Setting to inherit whatever setting you have chosen for your document.

Sometimes for me, the lower settings may revert to ignoring transparencies if I have a lot of documents open, apps running, or just running low on memory. So it's possible that all this is just a settings thing.

If this and none of the other suggestions help, is it possible to just create a new layered PSD with both your image and logo superimposed in the PSD file rather than stacking them in InDesign? Then just place the one file? Is it necessary to have both images separate in InDesign? I'm not suggesting that is a solution, just an option.

Good luck Once you figure it all out, I'd be curious to know what you discover.

Hi aeiou112358 ,

another thought is to create a 1-Bit bitmap TIFF image out of this logo and place this.

That would allow for more flexibility, because you can color the placed logo in InDesign.

What can speak against this:
Not enough effective resolution.

After placing the logo it should have more than 600 ppi effectively.

1200 ppi effectively would be perfect.

How can you convert a white pixel logo with transparency to a 1-Bit TIFF image using PhotoShop?

1. Go to the Curves panel and set the input value 0 to output value 100 so that all white pixels are black.

Transparent areas remain transparent.

2. Convert to Grayscale through a Mode change.

3. Convert to Bitmap through another Mode change.

Place the bitmap image in InDesign.

Select the image inside its container frame and apply: [Paper]

Regards,
Uwe

When a TIFF gets saved there's an option to save with or without transparancy, Try resaving as a PSD or a Tiff with Save Transparency checked. Also make sure the parent frame holding the logo has a fill of None.

Okay, so I found a work-around after fiddling around for an hour with all the options that I could find: I just copy and pasted the whole thing from photoshop into Indesign and for some reason it works like this. Why does it not work when I import it as a TIFF though??? Mysterious...