greyscale indesign Options

[brooklyneast05]

does anyone know how to change all images to greyscale in InDesign without having to go manually change them in photoshop and reinsert them back into InDesign? i'm looking for an option INSIDE indesign that can do this for me.

[Gigi]

Yeah greyscale seems like a trivial conversion but it actually matters quite a bit how you go about doing it cus it will affect how it looks when printed (i.e. greyscale images definitely require a lower DPI than colour images to prevent bleeding and preserve details). InDesign's for for designing physical, tangible things so attention to detail is a must. So making something b/w IS non-trivial photo editing, and there are many schools of thought, actually, on what the best way is to make an image greyscale.

Problems associated with sudden changes in costs should be blamed on management of the project rather than the program. Sorry man, you're gonna have to do it manually :( But honestly it's really easy to get used to converting a mass lot of photos into greyscale, I had to do that plenty of times when I was working on a yearbook, you just sort of memorize the motions after 3 photos.