Illustrator 8: Applying spot colour to greyscale image

[Paratype]

I'm sure it's possible, but how can I do it? I've been going through the manual, and looking at help(?) files, but I just can't figure it out. I have a greyscale image. I want to turn it into Pantone 195. Nothing I've tried seems to work. Any suggestions?

[TheDave]

Sorry if this seems obvious, but you can't put colour into a greyscale image - that is a true 8-bit greyscale image. You'll need to convert the image to 24bit RGB or 32bit CMYK first, then find a HSB / colorize command or effect.

But is illustrator even designed to edit bitmaps?

[Paratype]

Sorry. I didn't make myself clear. In Quark Xpress, or CorelDraw, or any number of other programs, you can 'colorise' a greyscale image. That is, it comes out in shades of a spot colour instead of shades of black. If I set up a page in Quark, with the text in Pantone 195 and the picture coloured to the same, I can export it as an eps, import the eps to Illustrator, and there it is - a 'coloured' greyscale image. So, if Illustrator can handle images coloured by another program, surely it can colour them itself?