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  • Desaturate Images in Indesign?

    Posted by Craig Howie on April 23, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    Hi there.

    Is it possible to desaturate an image in Indesign without having to edit the original image in Photoshop?

    Thanks,
    Craig

    Craig Howie

    Matt Townley replied 17 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Matt Townley

    April 26, 2009 at 4:43 am

    I’m not sure if there is an official desaturate effect native in ID, but a quick way to create the same visual look would be to create a new object over your image, set the fill color to white and set the transparency blend to color.

    This may not work in every situation depending on what you have going on with other assets, but this would do the trick.

    Also, the color data will still be there, so keep this in mind depending on your printing scenario.

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