What kind of images? What format?
Bitmap can mean two things: The "normal" meaning is an image composed of pixels, no vectors. But in Photoshop Bitmap Mode refers to one bit per channel, a stark black and white with no gray tones.
image > mode > grayscale.
Image > mode > bitmap
I am basically taking a photoshop file – and wanting to create a bitmap composed of pixels. (So I can import it into InDesign for example and be able to apply different color swatches to it easily).
I do see the "bitmap" option in Image > Mode. But it won’t let me select it?
Thanks for the replies!
As Buko said, go to grayscale first. But you will get a black and white image. I suspect that is what you are after.
See my first post. If it’s the "normal" kind of bitmap (raster) image, just flatten and Save as tiff, jpeg or whatever.
By the way, you can apply swatches to grayscale images in InDesign
only if they don’t contain transparency
You can if it’s a transparent tiff.
YES thank you! Helped out lots!
You can make transparent tiffs? How? I usually save as PNG-24 (for Illustrator) or PSD (for InDesign) if I need to preserve a transparent background?
Tiffs have had a transparent option since 6, I believe…or maybe it was 5.5. Just take your graphic with transparency and Save As Tiff. There’s a Save Transparency check box in the Tiff Options dialog when you Save.
You can not colorize a grayscale image with transparency in ID. I don’t care how you save it.
Buko,
I just did it with a transparent tiff. Honest.
Hmmmm…
Even though it’s transparent in Photoshop the Transparency disappears in InDesign.
I told you.
To colorize a grayscale image in ID it can not contain transparency, whether its saved as a TIF or PSD.
