color - Make the same grayscale image appear in different colours in InDesign

I have seen an old InDesign file link to the same tiff image but have it in different colours just by applying those colours on the object's frame within InDesign. The tiff file itself was a 8-bit grayscale image when I opened it in Photoshop.

I am unable to replicate this result by creating fresh files. Does anyone know about this?

Answer

First, Place your image and make sure it actually is grayscale. You can do that by looking at the link info in the Links panel.

Setting the fill color on the frame will change the fill of the whole frame and any white parts of your grayscale image.

Selecting the image within the frame and setting the fill color will change the color of the black parts of your image.