Thanks, Britt: They told me either CMYK or RGB, so I didn't convert it to CMYK, but will do so now. I sometimes have trouble colorizing to a specific PMS color in PShop, it looks different than specifying it in Illustrator. I do it both ways, but somehow was under the impression that it could be done with an RGB file as well. I'll try it in CMYK. Many thanks, Linda _______________________ Linda M. Feltner Artist, LLC P.O. Box 325 Hereford, AZ 85615 (520) 803-0538 www.lindafeltner.com Britt Griswold wrote: > 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