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matanb811
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April 5, 2012
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placed images appear pixelated

  • April 5, 2012
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hi,

i'm trying to create a layout for a comic book with indesign.

the images i use are from 300 PPI images. when i place them

in indesign they appear pixelated. i changed the display to high

quality, and the effective ppi of the images sais 300. what

else can be causing this?

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    Correct answer Peter Spier

    You are still viewing a downsampled preview. If ID displayed every image on a page as it appears in Photoshop the program would never run. How do they print?

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    Bob Schroer
    Participant
    June 6, 2020

    I had the same issue, all the settings were right, but the previews were still low res/pixelated. A quit and restart of InDesign fixed it.

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      Honmeg
      Participant
      July 13, 2017

      For me, I have four images, and only one of them is pixelated. Why is this?

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      Migintosh
      Legend
      July 14, 2017

      Did you check the effective resolution as explained above?

      flexwrite
      flexwrite
      Participant
      November 2, 2015

      Just came across this by accident: I use View/Overprint Preview (or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y)

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        st3lla
        Participant
        March 9, 2018

        it works for me! thank you so much!

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        teesha86955276
        Participant
        March 28, 2015

        I had the same problem too! I had clicked on the icon for PasteBoard Preferences (the little icon on the lower-left, near the page number) and selected Presentation. That worked well too

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          Jazz Matharu
          Participant
          February 12, 2014

          hi,

          I am a little late but, you can view the images in heigher quality too go to view-display proformence then Heigh Quality Display. it done.

            nabatk29944704
            nabatk29944704
            Participant
            January 21, 2015

            Thanks!

            Peter Spier
            Community Expert
            Peter SpierCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
            Community Expert
            April 5, 2012

            You are still viewing a downsampled preview. If ID displayed every image on a page as it appears in Photoshop the program would never run. How do they print?

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              skyrunvacations
              Participant
              September 11, 2012

              yet many programs do...

              without checking the resolution or viewing the source image or printing it out, how do you know if the image is actually pixelated?  seems a little odd for a high-end program like this to not at least give the user the option to view the images as close to print as the display would allow.

                Peter Spier
                Community Expert
                Peter SpierCommunity Expert
                Community Expert
                September 21, 2012

                Is there a quick way to just double check a single image in ID to make sure there are no quality problems with it? I get what you are saying about the massive size of a ID file bogging down your entire system, but I would think that Adobe would have some simple, light and easy way just to preview a image without bogging down your system.

                The way I have been doing it lately is just saving it as a pdf and viewing it that way. The images that I was concerned about being pixelated were actually not pixelated, but another image was pixelated though.

                If anything comes to mind I would love to know,

                Thanks

                -Roman


                Select the image and check the Info panel or the link info to get the effective ppi value. There's no guarantee that a high value means the image is good -- someone could have upsampled a poor quality file -- but a low value would be a clue to a problem.

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