Our newsletter designer is just beginning to familiarize herself with InDesign, and she’s doing pretty well with it, but she just asked me how to turn a color graphic into grayscale.
I’m usually pretty good at figuring things like this out, and I’ve never had a problem doing this in any other program, even a non-graphics program like Word. But InDesign leaves me baffled.
I’ve been through all the menus I can think of; I’ve looked up everything I can think of it their help files.
Do any of y’all know how to do this? I’m guessing I click a single button and presto it’s done; I just can’t find that button.
Ideally, I’d like to do it to an entire file at once.
Daniel
Disclaimer: I have never used Adobe InDesign. I am an expert in Pagemaker and Quark XPress, but got out of graphics just when InDesign was coming out.
I’d be mildly surprised if InDesign had a way of making an imbedded color photo into grayscale. That would strike me as something to be done in a photo editting program. If your designer has access to Photoshop or PhotoPaint, then so much the better – it’s a cinch. But even if all you’ve got is Microsoft Paint (ships with Windows), you can still convert from color to grayscale.
However, depending on how your newsletter is produced, your designer may have the option of simply outputting the newsletter to a black-and-white laser printer, thus making the OP’s question academic. Do you all send the newsletter off to a professional print shop to be produced on a press?
LHoD, no one else has chimed in. Can you post how this all turned out?
D’oh! Sorry I didn’t answer; I lost track of it.
Turns out you’re completely right. Everything I know about InDesign comes from this person, who’d told me that it was Adobe’s next-generation software combining Photoshop, Illustrator, and Pagemaker.
She was, of course, completely wrong on this. So she went back and grayscaled things in Photoshop.
Thanks!
Daniel