cropped image linking to full image

[lnivin]

Throughout book different cropped areas from a large image are being used. If a color correction is needed, it needs to be done to all. Is there a program that will allow a cropped area to still be linked to the large image for any editing?

Hope this makes sense.

[Lukas Engqvist]

Isn't that the point of cropping in the layout program? So... it depends on your workflow. Just place the large image in the layout program (InDesign?) and crop as needed, if all are linked to the same image, then updating the original will update all placed instances of the image.

If you need individual sharpening, then that can be done in the PDF or via and OPI workflow.

[lnivin]

The issue comes in that the PDFs contain the full image creating large PDFs. Is there a way for InDesign to crop to the picture box?

[Lukas Engqvist]

Yes, in the PDF settings, also if images get very high resolution you can us image downsampling… if you feel the default 300 ppi (adequate for most purposes) is too low… you can set it to 450, higher than that is overkill for most processes. (OPI workflow has the advantage of being able to apply sharpening on the appropriately sampled image… something I'm hoping we will have in future versions of InDesign)

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[lnivin]

I don't want to change resolution, but I'm not seeing an option to crop to the picture box?

[oxburger]

The only thing that I can think of is to maybe record your actions for the color correction in Photoshop and then run your other images through the same actions. But that will only work if your color corrections aren't that involved.

[lnivin]

I have learned, if I write a postscript file and Distill, the image crops to the photo box. Not sure if that is the path I'm going to take.