can’t convert to cmyk

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Johanna_O.
Jul 8, 2004
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I am using OS10.2.8 and photoshop 7 on a silver G4. I scanned a line drawing in as a "tiff" then imported it into photoshop 7. I want to color the drawing in but it is presently a bitmap and the cmyk is grayed out so i cannot convert the drawing. If anyone can tell me what i did wrong that i cannot conver the bitmap to a cmyk or if i should scan in the drawing as something other than a tiff, I would appreciate it.
thanks in advance

johanna
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graffiti
Jul 8, 2004
I could be wrong but I don’t think you can convert a bitmap directly to CMYK without going to grayscale first. At least not in PS.

Can you re-scan as CMYK or RGB?
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Ann_Shelbourne
Jul 8, 2004
You could have scanned in RGB if you wanted an easy route to CMYK.

Try changing your Bitmap to Grayscale and from that to CMYK; or stay in Bitmap and assign color to it in your page layout application
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Johanna_O.
Jul 8, 2004
Graffiti and Ann,
you were both right. thanks. I converted to grayscale and then to cmyk. Thanks so very much.

Johanna

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