Photo is blur when add into indesign

Hi,

abcx89943186  schrieb Hello guys, my photo is blur when i add it into indesign. the photo is rgb, actual ppi is 72 and effective ppi is 531... the photo is edited in photoshop which i convert to cmyk but however when i upload to indesign i still say it is rgb..strangely.... can anyone advise how to make the photo in indesign clearer? thanks:)

If the problem still excistes: I would solve it at the root.

My suggestion is

• dpi: Go to Photoshop > Image size > set Resolution it to 300dpi there. If the pic is large enough check only "Constrain Proportions", if not check also "Resample Image"
• rgb: > Edit > Convert to Profile ... > Destination Space Profile: "Working CMYK - U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" is what I use.
  
  

I hope you'll have success with this.

Cheers!

InDesign creates previews of placed images, and these previews are lower in quality than the originals.

Displaying full resolution images would slow the program down to a crawl, especially if you have a lot of images in a document.This is by design, and perfectly normal. When you print or export the file, the original image is used. So do not judge image quality in InDesign, do it in Photoshop.

I also see from your screenshot that you are viewing the image at more than 500% magnification, which is pointless. Any image will look bad at that magnification.

To get a true impression of images, view them at 100%, where one image pixel is represented by one screen pixel.

i saved my file as photoshop pdf and it is now much clearer! but still a tad blur when zoomed in.. as you can see in the below screen shoot (top is indesign and bottom is photoshop), is this normal? thanks so much and appreciate any advise!:)

Just to confirm: Check your Links panel and make sure the link is up to date.

Since you are editing it it Photoshop, are you saving it as a PSD? If not, try that.

Is it only this image or is it all images?

Which version of InDesign and OS, earlier versions may not be optimised for hi res screens?

Check you have InDesign set to: View > Display Performance > High Quality Display.

On another issue, do not convert your image in Photoshop to CMYK but keep it in RGB color mode for Placing in InDesign.