Reply To: Indd Best Practices for Placing High Res Images Destined for Print

I absolutely agree with you – technically it’s the correct way to do it – I’m not saying otherwise.

I’ve tried to convince clients to supply higher res images, and offered to do the sharpening, etc. but there’s a limit to what they will pay and what they think is good enough resolution is nowhere close to what I consider to be high enough quality.

It depends on clientelle, and if it’s high end art/coffee table book then yes I go the sharpening and correct size route.

In fact, if InDesign could apply a sharpen filter on output (each one would have to be adjust individually) or maybe you could tag images to be sharpened on output – I don’t know – that would be cool. A round trip to PS and back to layout to apply the touched up image.

There are scripts for doing this.

In most instances though I file>place images as supplied, unless customer specifically requests images are sharpened or printed best quality, it’s GIGO.