HELP! Changing back/foreground colours in Indesign

[era-design]

HELP! Changing back/foreground colours in Indesign

PLEASE HELP!

I'm in the process of changing from Quark to CS2 Indesign.

But I'm encountering some problems!

In Quark you can change the foreground and background colour
of a greyscale tiff to which ever colour you require.

When I try this in Indesign it only seems to allow me to change the background colour? Am I doing something wrong or is this just
not possible in Indesign?

Any suggestions would be very useful

Cheers Matt

[Emagdnim]

Just do it in photoshop. That's what makes indesign so great is that it is perfectly integrated with photoshop. Just edit photo in photoshop, then place (command+D) the photo in indesign. Then, anytime you need to edit that again, simply right click on it then choose -Edit Original. That will open the picture in photoshop again where you can make your changes. after that simply save the photo in PS and PRESTO, Indesign will automatically update the photo in Indesign.

[graffiks]

I am using CS3, so I forget if this part has changed. But you can edit the color to a certain extent in InDesign. To change the background color independently to the foreground color your TIFF file needs to have a white background. Use the selection tool to change the color of the background, then use the direct selection tool to change the color of the foreground image. If your TIFF file has a gray background you can use the direct selection tool and the complete image (foreground and background) will change to various screens of the chosen color. Alternatively, you can go under Object/Clipping Path and play with those options as well.

[Jonski3000]

In Quark you can change the foreground and background colour
of a greyscale tiff to which ever colour you require.

When I try this in Indesign it only seems to allow me to change the background colour? Am I doing something wrong or is this just
not possible in Indesign?

Any suggestions would be very useful

What graffiks said. It's the same in any version of InDesign.

In InDesign terminology you're not actually "changing back/foreground colours" as you would in QuarkXpress but you're changing the colour of the .tiff in the first instance and then the colour of the box it sits in, and you have to use two tools to do it!

Hope that makes sense?

[Jonski3000]

Just do it in photoshop. That's what makes indesign so great is that it is perfectly integrated with photoshop. Just edit photo in photoshop, then place (command+D) the photo in indesign. Then, anytime you need to edit that again, simply right click on it then choose -Edit Original. That will open the picture in photoshop again where you can make your changes. after that simply save the photo in PS and PRESTO, Indesign will automatically update the photo in Indesign.

It works that way in other page layout apps. It's not something unique to InDesign.

What the OP wants to do is an old quick and dirty trick that negates having to shuttle back and forth to Photoshop. Saves a huge amount of time!

[era-design]

Cheers guys for the info - it turns out I was probably
doing something wrong or my machine was just playing up.
I tried importing the image again into indesign and I was
able to change the colour of the 'background and foreground'
straight away : $