InDesign Color Issue?

Question

I am re-creating a business card for someone and I was given their logo to use. They want the whole card 2 toned (black and a pantone yellow) So I took the logo into photoshop, isolated it because I wanted it to have a transparent background, turned it into greyscale (8-bit) and placed it into ID. But for some reason I cannot apply the yellow color to the logo once it is in ID. Their logo is a sun, and they want the top half to be the pantone yellow and the bottom half to be black. The black part is easy to get in to ID but I cannot find a way to turn the top half yellow. The only way is to save it in PS as a 16-bit image, but then once I take it into ID it has a white block behind the image, and I can't have that since it needs to be on top of other parts of the card. I tried saving it as a .tif, .gif, and .png just in case those would work and they don't. So I am left with either having it with a transparent background but not being able to alter the color (8-bit), or having a block of white behind the sun and being able to alter it.(16-bit)

Does anyone have a solution?

Answer 1

why dont you take the logo into photoshop, isolate it so there is a transparent background, change it to grayscale, then change the mode to a duotone, that way you can select the top part and change it to whatever yellow pantone you pick. Save it as a .psd filef and import it into indesign.

keep it as an 8-bit, printers cannot support 16-bit.

I dont understand why you want to apply the color in Indesign, you should just do all the color adjustments in photoshop and import the final logo into indesign.

I hope this helped and I understood waht you were asking!