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• • April 1, 2010 at 1:48 pm #55394
    rnewton

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    I am making a catalog with a white background. My photos all have white background but are all slightly different shades of white and they have shadows. How can I blend the edge of the photo with the background so there isn't a line? Is this something that I can do in InDesign or do I do it in Photoshop?

  • April 2, 2010 at 2:30 am #55397
    Anonymous

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    There are several ways to approach this.

    Are all the images already placed?

    If you resize the image frame is that a lot of work and shifiting images to get them back in place?

    If you crop the photo in photoshop would it cause too many images to move out of place?

    Would you prefer to just make the image background pure white and leave the image size the same so that it doesn't affect their placement in the layout?

    Solutions would be:

    Resize the image frame in InDesign to hide the white background,
    or increase the size of the image so it fills the frame and the white background becomes hidden

    Perhaps you could use the Object>Clipping Path and Detect edges to create a clipping path around the images so that the white background is hidden. (This is probably tricky)

    Open all the images in Photoshop and:
    Crop all the images, and then refit them in the layout in InDesign

    or

    Select the white background and erase it so it's pure white – this wouldn't affect the image layout in InDesign because all the images would remain the same size, just the colour around the image changes.

  • April 2, 2010 at 3:32 am #55398
    albastru22

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    Depending on what you really want (it's not very clear to me…) you could try to use the feather option in indesign so the images wont have a straight edge but a feathered one…

  • April 2, 2010 at 5:26 am #55400
    Anonymous

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    Depending on the border in the images the settings would be different to each page, and it would add transparency to the page. So not sure that's an elegant solution.

  • April 3, 2010 at 1:05 pm #55407
    rnewton

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    Thanks for the help! My photos are mostly the same size right now. I resized them all in photoshop. When I place them in In Design there is definitely a line because the photos are not pure white like my background in InDesign is. I adjusted the levels in photoshop the best I know how. Is there something more I can do in Photoshop? I also feathered them in InDesign. Will that work? I just want them to blend into my background.

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