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Aug 3, 2024, 5:38:38 PM8/3/24

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Configure glob patterns for including files and folders. By default Colorize is enable for files matching one the languages defined in the colorize.languages config, with this config you can enable colorize for other files or folders. Read more about glob patterns here.

Configure glob patterns for excluding files and folders. Colorize will not colorized colors in these files and folders and it'll also not search for variables inside. Read more about glob patterns here.

Watching tutorials for this, i dont see any colorize options, er simple ones. Take the image you are working on, and click colorize or something, and have sliders to change for color, brightness, etc.

While we don't have a colorize option, we do have some basic Live Adjustment Layers on Layer>New Live Adjustment Layer for altering things like brightness and contrast and a Recolour Adjustment which you can use to change the colour of something.

Thanks! I had not considered doing that but it works well, plus by changing the opacity of the blended rectangle, I can easily adjust the intensity of the color, & the whole thing is non-destructive so I can play around with it without having to commit to any particular values.

you know what? i cant get any of them to work today?, i may not have tried them last night, i was tired. But today i tried many of them, and even though i move the sliders, nothing happens at all? i mean, i feel like i must be crazy. I tried to find a video explaining how to use them, found one, and tried it, did what he said and still nothing happens? Yeah, im so frustrated today, ive take the image back into gimp to color it. Gimp takes forever to load, lol, and often fails. i dont know. if you know of any vids showing how to use it from the moment you bring a .jpg or similar in, please post a link. thank you

Seems to be working OK for me using Recolor adjustment layers. In this recolored adj.afdesign file I have 3 of them nested in the Pixel layer, all currently set to invisible. Try turning them on one at a time & see what you get.

I was working with a scan today, Greyscale and I was able to place it into an Illustrator file then colorize it without issue. When I went into the Photoshop file and duplicated the original locked scanned layer and saved out the tiff would not colorize in Illustrator. Had to go back to the raw scan and rework the file without duplicating the original locked layer. This took extra time and was a bit troubling. Does anyone know why the greyscale tiff with duplicated layer won't colorize in Illustrator? Any insight to this would be greatly appreciated. Oh one final detail, the colorization worked with spot colors but not CMYK builds. I forgot to mention that.

FIXED FIXED...Just happened to a co-worker of mine using CC (works in CS6 too)... Here is what we did to fix it. Open the file in photoshop, click the bottom/last layer in your layer pallet. Next from the menu bar: Layer>New>background from layer. Save. Now in illustrator you can color the file. If you've already tried colorizing, the color should now display when you switch back to illustrator. NOTE: it will flatten that last layer, if that's not ok for you then add a blank layer at the bottom,

I found another fix for this issue, rather than being limited to Pantone Swatches. I'm in CC 2015, and while adding a background and shutting off visibility did not work, converting any color to a spot color in the palette does work. If you need to change the color, you have to edit it in the swatch itself otherwise the color converts back to your process, and your image will appear grayscale.

the locked background layer to the new layer icon in the layers panel (Photoshop), then deleting the original locked background layer. Once this was saved out as a .tiff file it would no longer colorize with the 4cp build swatch I had defined for that image.

The only other thing I can think of is if you had stroke in focus rather than fill when you assigned color. Sorry, but if your channels palette only had grayscale, I can't come up with anything better on this.

I am having this exact same issue right at this second. My issue is that I can't seem to fix it either! I have a file with a placed greyscale PSD and it's colorizing in Illustrator. I place a different image in the same file, it won't color. Because this is an unrelated file to the one that is working, I can't seem to fix the issue. So, yes, someone else is having your issue... and it's damn annoying. Hopefully a solution will present itself soon. I'm pretty sure this used to be a standard thing to do - I've done it years ago without issue.

1. Illustrator will only colorize (with a process colour) the greyscale tiff if it is flattened in Photoshop (or, curiously, if it contains the original locked background layer together with other layers)

I concur, Illustrator will only let me colorize a linked grayscale image if the file has a background layer. This would prevent being able to apply color to an image that has a transparent component to it from within Illustrator, you would instead have to do this though photoshop.

I don't know that having a background layer is the culprit here because I have a greyscale psd placed into an Illustrator file and colorized with a PMS (or any other color of my choosing). When opening the PSD file, it's greyscale, with transparency. Placed into Illustrator, it says embedded 'transparent greyscale'. The problem is that when I try to duplicate this, I can't - so I have no idea why it's working on these files but not others. Very frustrating.

So if your grayscale image has transparency (i.e. an alpha channel) you can only colorize it with a spot color inside Illustrator. If you need to colorize with process it sounds like you will need to do that image into Photoshop.

I would agree with this, however I can't seem to replicate what has already worked for me. And the file that I have placed with a transparent background that does seem to work for me allows me to colorize it with anything - spot or process.

So to reiterate, I have a PSD file, greyscale mode, type (black) on a transparent background - no extra channels. Place this psd into Illustrator, it asks if I want to 'flatten' or 'maintain layers'. I say flatten, and it shows up as my black type with no (transparent) background. I then select the swatches, hit a color, and boom - black type is now 'x' color.

I tried to duplicate this lately with something else, and I can't. It just doesn't seem to work now... no idea why. When I open the old file that does work up to see the settings, there is no different. Strangeness for sure.

I don't know why some of your files work the easy way and some don't, but I do know that when grayscale images have transparency they are not supposed to allow you to colorize with anything other than a spot color.

It works for me - though I rarely have to color tifs in Illustrator this way. THis ugly business card came in designed in 2 spot colors. I had to change the cpot color for the blue from one PMS to the other.

I know it's been a long time since there was a post on this but I've ran into this issue before and just ran into it again and forgot how I did it. I found out what my problem was and it was the same problem I ran into before as well. On the gradient tab, make you you have FILL selected and not OUTLINE. This will cause you not to be able to colorize your TIFF file!

Just had the same in InDesign, after saving a TIFF from a PSD with a transparent background. (I've not read through all the responses, so sorry if this has already been suggested but...) It seems you can't colour up a TIFF if it has transparency, so when saving the TIFF un tick 'add transparency' and that's worked for me.

My colourize neural filter worked fine yesterday,but today it's asking me to download it. It of course will not download now,and just stays grayed out. The other Neural filters work fine. I've updated to 22.4.3 now,but still the same problem. I've changed nothing from yesterday to today (except for the update) and I rarely use any of the other filters but use the colourize all the time. I'm using windows 10.

ok figured it out. For some reason my computer was messing up posting this as a reply. Basically delete the previously downloaded colorization filter which is no longer see's but is preventing the download of the latest one. The known issues / workaround gives you the folder they are in.

in the adobe work around, where you go to verify the %temp and etc.

I made my own post with what i could get through the filter. It gets all mad if it thinks you are posting a url, and the file path looks like a url to the filter.

So, the work around tells you where to go to verify.

Then go to that same folder, and you'll find it...better yet here is a screen shot of the location.