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saving monotone image as jpg or tiff

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Brian Britt

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:08:22 AM7/5/02
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Is it possible to save a monotone image as a jpg or tiff? I have created a quark file using a spot colour, and need to save a copy as either a jpg or tiff. What do I or can I do?

Brian Britt

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:32:35 AM7/5/02
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Hi Jason,

It needs to be a spot colour image.

JasonSmith

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:27:55 AM7/5/02
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a jpeg will have to be in Greyscale, RGB, or CMYK mode, tiff can also be LAB mode....so what color mode do you want the file to end up in?

Brian Britt

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:58:39 AM7/5/02
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quite possibly! I appreciate your help, thanks!

JasonSmith

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:42:38 AM7/5/02
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jpeg and tiffs dont support monotone color mode - so you wont get a monotone jpeg or tiff...the only way is to convert it to a multichannel or greyscale file.

your monotone options are: eps, psd, or raw file formats.

who needs a monotone jpeg or tiff? do they know that such a thing doesnt exist?

JasonSmith

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:48:24 AM7/5/02
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now you can colorize a greyscale tiff in quark with a spot color, the tiff file is still greyscale, it is quark that is re-mapping the colors... maybe that is what they are getting confused about?

Brian Britt

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Jul 5, 2002, 11:45:13 AM7/5/02
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that's exactly what I thought! I tried to explain that to them and they don't seem to understand. So to amuse them, I told them I'd try to find out for sure.

Neil Keller

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Jul 7, 2002, 12:00:16 PM7/7/02
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Brian,

Actually, QuarkXPress has had the ability to colorize both grayscale and bitmap TIFF files for as long as I can remember. I use this feature all the time, as it is far more efficient than having to recreate the files in Photoshop if the color has to be changed.

BTW, if you are going for print reproduction, it should be a TIFF (or EPS) file, not JEPG.

Neil

JasonSmith

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Jul 8, 2002, 3:35:41 PM7/8/02
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"it should be a TIFF (or EPS) file, not JEPG. "

...or JPEG for that matter!

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