How to change color of black logo, while keeping the background transparent?

I feel none of the workaraounds / solutions are really ideal. If your goal is to have design consistency across multiple documents and applications, which is usually the case when dealing with logos, you want to work with one single source file. Applying color should not force you to make a copy of the vector at all, especially if it's a one color file. Bitmaps are certainly not the alternative, because the have issues with resolution and are not editable in the future.
Best solution would be: Give the ability to apply color to vectors saved in CC Libraries.

Hi, with regards to changing the color of vector art in InDesign - I don't think I saw anyone suggest this, but its very handy, expecially if you've transformed the properties of the placed art aside from its native properties (such as scale, rotation, etc...)

• Select the vector art in InDesign
• Open up Illustrator
• Paste the art from the clipboard
• Using direct selection tool in Illustrator (white arrow) select the encompassing path and delete
• Select all the remaining vectors
• Switch back to InDesign and paste - usually InDesign will paste it directly over the original.
• Lock the new pasted art and delete the old one or hide it in a sub-layer
• Unlock the new pasted art and use the direct selection tool in InDesign to select the vectors, you can now change the colors of the object paths from the swatch palate

Has always worked great for me!

Waaay late here. I was looking for something similar to this. I have a imported vector object. I didn't want to create multiple objects of the same thing just to change the colour. So I found a work around:

1. Select the object
2. Right Click  / Effects / Inner Glow
3. Select the Colour and then for MODE make NORMAL (or maybe you want some effect?)
4. And make the size of the glow whatever is required to cover the whole object.

It works!

I realise I'm a bit late to the table with my response, but thought I might share my thoughts anyway.

If it's just a simple vector file with one colour (black, white or something else), open the vector in Illustrator and copy it, then paste it directly into your document in InDesign. Once in InDesign, you'll have the freedom to change the colour to whatever you want using the swatches.

There are a couple of things wrong here. First, you cannot colorize .eps files, nor vector files of any sort. Second, if this is a Photoshop .eps, it uses a clipping path, not transparency, to remove the background.

None of that really matters much, though, since the bottom line is you can't colorize .eps.

If this is really a vector logo, do what Bob said, if it's raster, you have a couple of choices: add a spot channel and move the black pixels into it and save as .psd or .tif with a transparent background or (ugh) DCS2 .eps with a clipping path which will probably look pretty crappy.

I suggest you change the color in Illustrator and place it as an AI file.

Bob