bring in a CMYK transparent object file into InDesign?

[Morganne T5EF2]

I am making a poster for print in InDesign. I have edited a photograph in Photoshop. It has a transparent background. What file format do I use to get into InDesign? I have discovered .PNGs only make RGB files. Please and thank you.

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

PSD or TIFF would be for complete raster images.

If your image has vector masks, vector shapes or live text layers - then save as a Photoshop PDF and enable editing capabilities when saving.

[Morganne T5EF2]

Thank you, Eugene! I tried everything but a TIFF. I am new and appreciate your time to respond. I tried the enabled editing capabilities but could not get the background transpartcy.

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

Enabling editing capabilities would be for pdf only to allow to open the pdf in Photoshop again to make further edits.

When saving the TIFF check the > Save Transparency box on the bottom left.

[jmlevy]

Even if your document is intended for print, leave your images in RGB. Conversion to CMYK will be done when you will export the file to PDF.

[Morganne T5EF2]

Oh, thank you. When I went to export my work from InDesign, it converted it into RGB for my PDf. I searched the EXPORT windows and found the spot to turn it off, converting it to RGB. I feel they need to have that on the first screen of the EXPORT window. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

What is wrong with using a native Photoshop (.psd) file?

[Willi Adelberger]

f you have text, pixels and vectors combined, psd will handover only pixels, with pdf you get vectors as vector, text as text.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I know that, but it wasn't mentioned by the OP and if they were trying a PNG, it couldn't have been a major issue.

[Eugene Tyson]

InDesign will rasterise text, vectors from a psd to the resolution of the Photoshop file.

Pdf it will not do that.

If you're printingdirectly from Photoshop psd or tiff is fine.

[Morganne T5EF2]

This project was of a tree. I edited out all spaces between the leaves. I did it all in photoshop RAW, and for some reason, I never thought to import it as a .PSD file. I will in the future. I lost all the work I had done on it. I want to use this school project in my college portfolio, and I will use my .PSW file. Thank you for posting this.