Hello. I'm having trouble with my images looking very pixelated when printed. I am currently using Adobe Indesign CS3 and when I place images into Indesign they look okay until I reduce the size of the image. can anybody help me? I save my images in TIFF and they are high res pics.

I have attached the pdf doc which I'm working on so that you mioght see. Thanks in advance

Hi Daniel,

I don't see an attachment, sorry.

Which program are you printing from? Are you setting the dpi in the tiff before placing the image into Indesign? If printing from a pdf, did you set Acrobat to save a 'press quality' pdf?

My workflow would be:
Set the dpi and dimensions of the tiff in Photoshop required for the intended output.
Place the .tiff in InDesign at 100% (although you could re-size, it is recommended to use 100%)
Create a .pdf using the 'press quality' options set to swop.

Good luck.

Thank you! My attachment could not be posted due to the fact that the file size was too big. I am printing from PDF. How do I place the .tff in Indesign at 100%? So its bad to resize once placed into Indesign? Thanks for your reply.

I applied your workflow and it worked out great. I can't tell you how much that helped me. I've been working on this for a week now. Thanks for your help.

Glad it worked out, danielhunter

So its bad to resize once placed into Indesign?
If you resize in Photoshop you have the control. If you resize in a desktop program you lose that control. For most work it won't create a problem. But depending on your output device, if you re-size, eg. down to 10%, you're sending a lot of unnecessary mb to the output device. If you outsource your output they might recommend that you reduce file size.