: Lighten photo in InDesign I'm publishing a BLACK AND WHITE book being published. The lady asked to have a color image (against my thoughts) at the beginning of the black and white (interior)

@Gonzalez368

If the photo is grayscale, you can recolour it in InDesign.


Create a box and give it a white fill.
Place an image into a box.
Select the image with the white arrow (make sure you're selecting the image and not the box that contains it) and change the fill – this will change the colour of the black part of the image.


Using a grey will mean your image is lighter but still retains a solid white background.



This only works with grayscale images, but is a great way of recolouring or lightening images in InDesign. It also means you can link the colour of an image to a swatch, giving you the option of recolouring an entire document with a click.

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@Hamaas979

You could do it in Photoshop otherwise a dirty trick you can do in Indesign.

Paste another copy of same image over the image and change blending mode to Screen in Effect panel. Play with opacity to get desire brightness.

For contrast Paste another copy over and change blending mode to Overlay... use opacity to control contrast.

I know it's not the right way to work with photos but it works...;)

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