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

You only lose sharpness on images that require sharpening, not all images require sharpening.

I must say, I lied a bit, when I’m working on images that are supersensitive, like art books, or other things of that nature, architecture things etc. then I will absolutely size the images to fit and sharpen in photoshop prior to printing.

But for everyday run of the mill images/stock photos it’s hardly worth your while.

Note, a foggy scene wouldn’t require sharpening, but a glass building would etc.

****Curious about resizing prior to placing in InDesign do you then check (or calculate) your effective resolution prior to placing? For print I mean.***

No – I have a preflight profile setup in InDEsign to check for images that come in under 260 ppi – then I make judgement calls on these images for printing, whether it’s digital, or litho, or screen etc.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/preflighting-files-handoff.html