Placing of psd into InDesign looses quality

[tracyselena]

Hi I have created a background in Photoshop and am placing it into an InDesign file. The psd is 300 dpi and uses only 300 dpi images.
When I place it, it looses quality and becomes pixelated. Am I missing something

Thanks all....Tracy

[morea]

it could be your image display settings. Does it look that way on-screen only, or in print?

Right click on the image, at the bottom of the list, choose "display performance" and then "high quality display". ID displays at a lower quality as a default to save memory.

[Virgo Nightingale]

ID displays the image in low quality to lessen the strain on the computer's memory. It should print just fine.

If you right click on the image (or control-click) you should see a menu that includes options for the preview resolution. Select High, and the image should be nice and crisp. This will however make screen redraws take much longer as the computer has to process more data. You can also set this document wide in the preferences, but I don't recommend it unless you have a monster machine. I only use the high-res preview for an individual image when I need to precisely place a graphic, and I return to low-res once it's placed.

[Virgo Nightingale]

I took too long to type. :o

[morea]

's ok... you covered more ground. ;)

[tracyselena]

thanks for the quick response. ...it's definately not the display settings. I know about those. i have it set to high quality display....everything else is coming in fine

what i'm doing is creating a transparent (70%) wash over top of a graphic ...cutting out some letters so that the image below shows though, then adding some shadow.

I tried creating the letters in Ai, then placing them into Ps to get vector quality letters..but it didn't make too much of a difference.
I only have a injet printer to print it out on...maybe i'll take it over to fedex to see how ti actually comes out.

Thanks all...

[budafist]

I tried creating the letters in Ai, then placing them into Ps to get vector quality letters..but it didn't make too much of a difference.
I only have a injet printer to print it out on...maybe i'll take it over to fedex to see how ti actually comes out.

Thanks all...

What happens if you put the .ai file or .eps file into Indesign?

And just to confirm, you photoshop file is 300dpi but is it at 100% size?

[turntablist]

can you show us an example of what you are working on?