If you'd like to view your InDesign file with images at high resolution so you get a more effective idea of what it will look like, right click on an image and go to Display Performance, make sure the highest quality setting is selected.
If images still look pixellated at this I would open them back up in Photoshop to check them out. Also, what format are your images saved in? Use psd, eps or tif to give you the highest quality, not jpg or any of the other web formats.
walk like a zombie
2010-07-20 17:35:22 UTC
If they are linked in, they may look pixelated, but really are not. What is the dpi on the original photos? The way you can check this is to export it as a PDF and take a look that way or hit the preview button. If the dpi on the photos are low, you are going to have pixelated photos and there really isn't a way to fix that.
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2010-07-20 11:48:29 UTC
Indesign, for viewing purposes, takes a lower resolution display for everything in your document. It's to save time and productivity when you're making for instance a 96 page spread booklet and using 270 meg tiff files on every page for a magazine. In the past, you'd get a horribly slow, chunking computer that takes forever to load every little last bit of detail when really, you don't need to see any of it to do your actual layout.
As the other poster said, once you export it into PDF, as long as your original files are high res, nothing will change in indesign. That's simply the way it previews it to cut down on the agonizing time wasting previews of the past. It's actually really effective. Just make sure your own photographs are high res and you don't have to worry about a thing :)
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