[Kelly Johnson]

This is a huge topic. Despite all the advances made in InDesign and really all the programs, I still prefer to process all the images myself via Photoshop and not let InDesign handle any color.

However, I have used the workflow suggested by Deke McClelland at the Lynda.com tutorials.

The main thing is to have all color settings across all adobe apps the same. You don’t want a conversion to happen in Photoshop or Illustrator and then something else in InDesign which could then be overridden via Pdf settings or printers’ settings..etc.

In Photoshop, you just make an Action on one image and then let the action run all the other images. Waaaay faster! Open an image. Start recording (view the Actions palette) and go to whatever color format/space you need. Choose the format for saving then stop the action. Then you just Batch(under file>Automate) choose that action and point to the folder w/all the images. Just pay attention to the boxes..or search for “photoshop actions”…there is also, under the File > Scripts > Image processor where you can select a folder of images and choose a format to convert them all to tiff and then make an action.

Either way, if you do use InDesign to manage color, just make sure the color settings are either all the same or turned off (“do not manage colors”) in all but InDesign.