View Mode > Hide Images

[ronnyb]

For the sake of working with image-heavy documents and for visual simplicity when doing rough layouts with said heavy images, it would be great have a View Mode similar to Hide Effects called Hide Images that would simply display images as a 50% grey.

 

Thanks for your consideration and all you do!

[GarryP]

When you say you want to display images “as a 50% grey”, do you mean that you want them to be:

• displayed as a simple rectangle filled with a colour which is ‘halfway down’ the ‘black/white scale’ in whatever colour space was being used (basically replaced with mid-grey-filled rectangles), or;
• displayed but converted to greyscale and shown with a 50% Opacity (so the image can be faintly seen), or;
• something else?

Would you be able to provide a quick mock-up which shows an example page both as it would normally be and how you want it to be when this new option is used?

Note: There is already a View Mode option called Greyscale which displays the whole document as greyscale.

[MikeTO]

I believe Ronny wants something like the Greek Pictures feature of QuarkXPress which displays all images as medium grey rectangles. Quark offered image and text "greeking" for performance and design reasons and while image greeking is no longer needed for performance, sometimes the images distract from laying out the page. This is what Publisher's wireframe view mode is for but it displays images as unfilled rectangles instead of shaded rectangles. Perhaps another wireframe mode with shaded rectangles could be added.

If Publisher offered true object styles, you could format your images with a style that you could temporarily add an adjustment layer to when you wanted to greek images.

[HCl]

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[ronnyb]

8 hours ago, GarryP said:

When you say you want to display images “as a 50% grey”, do you mean that you want them to be:

• displayed as a simple rectangle filled with a colour which is ‘halfway down’ the ‘black/white scale’ in whatever colour space was being used (basically replaced with mid-grey-filled rectangles), or;

Yes @GarryP

 

2 hours ago, MikeTO said:

I believe Ronny wants something like the Greek Pictures feature of QuarkXPress which displays all images as medium grey rectangles. Quark offered image and text "greeking" for performance and design reasons and while image greeking is no longer needed for performance

Yes @MikeTO but mainly for performance. My M1Max is crawling slowly with my latest files and I  need all the performance I can get… maybe it is a memory leak issue, I will have to reboot and see if it helps… but my layouts use quite a bit of FX, blend modes, transparency, etc…

1 hour ago, Return said:

States

@Return can you give a little more insight as to how you would set up States for performance? I set up 2 Captured States that toggle the image objects on and off… 

[HCl]

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[carl123]

Assuming all your images are linked in a folder structure that has a common starting folder

Batch process a copy of all your images so they are the same size and name etc but just 50% grey rectangle image files into a new starting folder structure

You can then just copy these files into your main linked folder structure when you want 50% grey rectangle image files and copy back the originals when you want your full-fat files back

In Windows I would just create a couple of batch jobs to do all the copying back and forth, I assume you can do the same on a Mac