Photo appearance changes after being...

I hope someone can please help me



Im using CS4 and creating a magazine I have the

Display at High Quality



And I am trying to Place 314 DPI Tiffs

that I have created in photoshop.



They are high quality images and they look PERFECT on photoshop.

I will attempt to put 10 photos of a model on 10 pages and 9 will work out perfect, at least 1 always comes out less then perfect.



I wont say totally pixelated but it look like a picture would look if you sharpened it way to much.

Every photo is saved the same and the same DPI and all of the others will look fine.



And its funny when I scroll over to the photo and my mouse is pressed on the scroll bar is I pass that photo it will look perfect and when I let go of the scroll bar it goes back to looking aweful.



But I see it perfect in photoshop and also in indesign when i scroll to it then before my eyes it changes back to a horrible photo.



Im so scared it will print in the horrible form, although I know its a good photo.



What am I doing wrong? how can i get the occasional messed up photo to show clear.



Im using Indesign CS4

in CMYK

the Tiffs are 314DPI

im placing them and making a photo box first neither way works.



Thank you very much



Mer
Photo appearance changes after being...
View %26gt; Display Performance %26gt; High Quality Display



k
Photo appearance changes after being...
Hi Mer,



Display performance is the first place to look. There are two things to check -- first the overall performance level, and, second, whether allow object level display is enabled.



If there's a check mark next to that in the view menu individual images can have settings different from one you've set. The object level setting is set by right-clicking on the image in question.



Most of the time there's no reason to have object level settings enabled, in my opinion, but occasionally you'll run across an image that is much larger than the rest and really slows down the screen draw on some systems. Setting that to a lower level will improve performance.



View settings have nothing to do with output quality. A quick way to test if the image is going to print properly would be to print to PDF and have a look. Also, check the links panel and be sure the image link is up-to-date.



Peter

Thank you very much for helping me, I have all of the displays set to the highest, and only 2 photos of of 53 are showing in bad quality and all of the photos are done the same way and the same size.



Im just praying those 2 dont print bad, and its also moody yesterday 1 of the 2 bad images displayed nicely all day and now its back messed up, its crazy! And when scrolling to it, its super clear when the scrolling renders and the images clear it goes back to looking messed up.



Can you tell me how to print one page in my 70 page document to PDF please?

Im not sure how to print only one page



thank you very much!



And do you think something can look bad to the eye and print nicely?



Mer

''Can you tell me how to print one page in my 70 page document to PDF please?

Im not sure how to print only one page''





Export to PDF using the High Quality or Press setting and just select the page you want in the page range.



''And do you think something can look bad to the eye and print nicely?''



Only if what you are looking at is not what will be printed, for instance a low res preview as you get in the Typical

Display setting.



Did you do as Peter suggested and check whether you have these miscreant pictures set locally to view at low resolution?

Select the graphic, right click and look in Display Performance at the bottom of the menu. You want to see Use View

Setting checked.



k

Ken,



In this particular case I was thinking Printing might be more instructive than Exporting to PDF, but it probably doesn't make a lot of difference, and Exporting is certainly less complex.



If you decide to print, there are two important things to do: First, and this applies to any printing, not just to PDF, change the ''Send Data'' field in the Graphics section from the default, ''Optimized Subsampling,'' to ''All.'' Second, for Printing to PDF you should click the setup button in the bottom of the print dialog and choose the PDF printer, then click preferences. On the PDF settings tab make sure the default setting is for Press Quality or High Quality Print.



If the preview is behaving erratically and the view settings are correct, I'm thinking it may be a video driver problem or perhaps corrupt preferences.



To test the video driver click a blank area of the desktop and choose Properties %26gt; Settings %26gt;Advanced button %26gt; Troubleshooting tab and set the Hardware Acceleration slider to none. If that solves the problem, look for an updated video driver.



To replace your preferences see: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/5.0/help.html?content=WSa285fff53dea4f 8617383751001ea8cb3f-6d1e.html

All of the photos were the right size EXCEPT the one that looked the worse, it was smaller and I had streched it in placing, after looking at the info like you guys instructed I realized i had one image the wrong size.



And the other looked a little funny but it looked good in photoshop, I looked again in photoshop only to find that on ACTUAL size on photoshop it looked JUST Like the indesign photo, showing it to fit the screen was changing the appearance,



So im doing good now, thank you all so very much!!!!!!!!



thank you all so very much!!!!! your very knowledgeable and I sure appreciate your taking the time to help me



have a wonderful week



Mercedes

Learn to love the Info Panel.



Regardless of what original resolution the pictures are when you place them in InDesign, the meaningful size is the

effective resolution. When you stretch a picture you lower its effective resolution. So your 314 ppi picture has 314

pixels per linear inch when you originally place it. If you stretch it, those same pixels have to cover more distance,

so if you doubled its size, those 314 pixels per inch would be filling two inches, so the effective resolution - that at

which you have the picture on the page - would only be 157 ppi. The pixels would be twice as big, which is why they

become noticeable.



The Info Panel shows you the original resolution of the picture, and its effective resolution once you have pushed and

pulled it about.



k

Keep in mind, too that images don't get better when you upsample them in Photoshop. That's just making up pixels out of thin air based on an interpolation algorithm.



The rule of thumb is 300 ppi at print size, but that's based on offset printing on coated stock using a halftone screen in the range of 150 lpi, and a viewing distance of arm's length. If you are printing on uncoated stock, or using a desktop printer (and even that coated stock at 150 lpi, if the image isn't critical), or the output is meant for a longer distance view, you can get away with less resolution, sometimes dramatically less.



Peter