Indesign conversion Rgb To Cmyk

[emja]

Hey Folks.

Merry Christmas to ya all!

I have nearly finished a hugely painfull and mundane brochure. Hooray! But......I have just realised when I resized my photos in photoshop and saved them as Jpegs I did not save them as CMYK but as RGB. Bummer! Now I have them all linked up in my indesign document. Does anyone know a quick way I can alter the colour mode without using photoshop? I will be creating a PDF of this document when it goes to print. Maybe I could change it then? Probably not but worth a try.

Thank you muchly.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.............X :p

[Eggles1]

Why did you save your images as JPGs? Assuming this job is for print, why not use the Photoshop files? ID is perfectly capable of placing PSD files.

InDesign cannot convert RGB to CMYK without going back to Photoshop - just use the Links palette - click on the image name and then Edit Origianl from the dropdown menu. Of course, since these are JPGs your computer may not be set up to immediately open JPGs in Photoshop (another reason to keep the graphics as PSD files). And since you will be editing and resaving these JPGs you will introduce even more image degradation.

However, if you make a PDF from the ID file, there are third party apps such as Pitstop that can convert the RGB to CMYK. BUT, you never quite know what you will get since there is not a direct correlation between RGB and CMYK - that's why it is probably better to do the conversion in Photoshop so you can see the result.

[PrintDriver]

Why can't you use Photoshop?
If you have too many images to change manually, create an action script that changes your color mode. It would probably be faster to select all your images and just drag them onto your photoshop icon rather than use Edit Original from within Indesign.

Be sure to use Convert to Profile rather than just select the CMYK space.

Eggles is right about the jpg. Why did you use that for a print piece? I'm not a big fan of using psd in InDesign but if you are going to pdf, it doesn't matter. For my job we use .tif or .eps only. If you change image formats, you will have to relink everything.

Do not ever rely on or expect your print vendor to use Pitstop or any other aid to convert images in a submitted pdf file unless you tell them to. Especially for free. It's a shame when other designers even suggest submitting sub-standard files to printers for them to sort out.

[unchained]

Just press the recorder in Photoshop, then convert only one pictures to CMYK. Stop the recorder go to the automate function and your pc will do all other files for you.

Incase you never used this fuction you maybe want to try this automate fuction on a dummy file, just to be on the save side.

[panzer]

i never heard of printing from j-peg gnnnnarrr degradation is a must eeek