Please make sure you have a copy of the APID ToolAssistant plug-in installed. You can easily verify that by creating a CMY (no K) image in Photoshop, save as TIFF, then use Color2Gray: the image will properly render because it takes into account the CMY channels too.īefore you start installing, exit out of InDesign. Note: despite some comments to the contrary, the image is NOT obtained by simply stripping away the color plates. The resulting conversion will only render on the black (K) plate.
When outputting in CMYK, the gray image is calculated using a fixed, built-in color-to-grayscale conversion in InDesign. When using this tool, the original image is not changed and remains in color, yet it is output as a grayscale image. You could open the image in Adobe® Photoshop® and convert it to grayscale, but instead you can also use this plug-in. Sometimes you want a particular picture to be output as a grayscale image, yet the original image is in color. As far as we know, complex, multi-layered Photoshop images don’t always work – so you might want to stick to JPEG or TIFF.
This tool allows you to convert placed color photos to grayscale without modifying the original color image.
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