I think it is a "feature" to colorize Greyscale images. Colorizing color images is better managed in Photoshop. If this is going to press, you may want to be working in CMYK color space. Britt Linda Feltner wrote: > HI All: > Why won't Adobe Illustrator CS2 apply a PMS color in the swatch book > to a placed Tiff file? It applies color to other files in the same > document. This new doc is RGB color, and others are Grayscale. Is this > the reason? > I have the transparency set to "Multiply" on both tiff images, so the > white background drops off from the black ink drawings, letting the > background color show through. > > Confused, > Linda -- _______________________________________ Britt Griswold/WMAP Project TRAX/Maslow Media Group NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Code 665 Bldg. 21 Rm 063 Greenbelt, MD 20771-0001 (301) 286-3381 (301) 286-1617 FAX (301) 286-7230 FAX [log in to unmask] http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov