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I suppose that nearly every noob has had this problem. I'm designing (for want of a better word) a logo, a pretty simple one, two colors, for a brochure. Its dimensions are 10x5cms at 400dpi. This will not be the final size, I thought it would be better to start off with a larger image and then reduce to the desired size in the brochure. I'm running PSCS5.5 on winxp sp3 and Indesign CS5.5 for the brochure.

My problem is that while the logo looks good with nice clean edges in PS, when I transfer the image to Indesign the image is displayed with jagged edges and really looks bad. I guess I'm missing something pretty obvious here but what?

Any help would be very welcome
 
In InDesign, go to VIEW>DISPLAY PERFORMANCE>HIGH QUALITY DISPLAY.

InDesign defaults to a lower quality display for placed images because higher quality display uses more memory and slows down the program. But rest assured, regardless of how it looks in InDesign, it will print just fine.
 
Honestly why are you at 400dpi print quality only needs to be 300 dpi.

Also unless you are using vector shapes in photoshop perhaps if you need sharp quality you should be doing it in illustrator.

Also with in design you may not get the right results on screen similar to photoshop up until cs6 vector shapes looked all Jagged on the screen but whan they are rendered out for print they print perfectly. Illustrator is designed for vector so what you see on the screen is what you get (providing your printer is high quality of course)
 
Using 400dpi is just a case of overkill by a noob. I learnt after that print quality only, as I understand it, requires 300dpi.

I used paths to construct the non text parts of the logo, then loaded the paths as selections so the required areas could be color filled.

The problem seems to be the way that Indesign treats the psd file. Surprisingly (to me at least), some school images, after backgrounds were removed and the ID refine edge function used, looked very good, hair strands preserved etc, unlike the PS generated logo.

I guess I can wait and see what shows up when the pdf goes to the print shop.

Thanks to all for your help.
 
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