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How do I make jpeg image background transparent?
I have an jpeg of a coloured flower in a white background done in photoshop. I would like to bring this image into illustrator to incoroporate with my drawing.
Is it possible to make the white background of the jpeg image to be transparent so that the drawing done in illustrator shows through the white background area only :confused:
Any suggestions given would be very much appreciated!
Thank you! :)
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This is the image I'm using. I want to have the white areas to be transparent when I bring into illustrator as this would be placed over my drawing. Any tips? :confused:
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Please search via Google with the following searchstring: "photoshop tutorial remove background"
Regards,
Remi
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Thanks for the links! but isn't the answer I'm looking for.
I don't want to remove the background as there's nothing to remove.
I want to know how to make the white background of the Rose invisible when it is placed in illustrator. Please look at the example attached.
Anyone know how I could do that either with Photoshop or Illustrator?
Thanks! :o
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Originally Posted by nutmeg
Thanks for the links! but isn't the answer I'm looking for.
I don't want to remove the background as there's nothing to remove.
I want to know how to make the white background of the Rose invisible when it is placed in illustrator. Please look at the example attached.
Anyone know how I could do that either with Photoshop or Illustrator?
Thanks! :o
Your background isn't transparent, so you have to remove the white background if you need this image with a transparent background in Adobe Illustrator. There are some different techniques to do that with Adobe Photoshop and you'll find some of the techniques in the tutorials above.
Here is another tutorial called "How to Create a Transparent Background in Photoshop", but it's only one method to do this. There are still more tutorials about that.
btw: JPG doesn't support transparency. Use .PSD, .PNG, .TIFF or .GIF instead.
Regards,
Remi
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Remi, Thanks for the info!
I managed to sort it out ;)
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Hi nutmeg,
can you please let me know how do you sort it out?
Regards,
Amit
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Have you tried .png which can hold the alpha channel transparency?
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There are better ways >.>
If your using PS(photoshop) than heres how.
In your tool box there Is an eraser, If u right clikc It says "background eraser"
This will let u click on the white and It will turn It transparent.
If you have trouble with that, use the pen tool to outline the flower and copy and paste It onto a transparent doc.
Try this out and let me know how It goes.
Save as Png. Otherwise It dosent work, jpeg dosent do transparent =)
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Hi
You can insert jpg picture without backgroud. You must:
I. In Photoshop:
1. Create path by "pen tool".
2. Copy this path by "path selection tool".
II. In Illustrator:
1. Place jpg picture.
2. Paste path by CTRL C (PC) or cmd C (Mac).
3. Select picture and path by selection tool.
4. Create clipping mask (cmd 7 or menu/object/clipping mask/make)
5. In this way you will get jpg without background.
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and you could try Mark McLaren's macs white filter - one click removal of white
works with my photoshop, and painter too, though not of course on the background layer
http://pspug.org/filters/filtersff.shtml
PS I dont think you can save jpg transparent either - png tif tga, gif of course if 256 colors ok, but not jpg?
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Originally Posted by
nutmeg
I have an jpeg of a coloured flower in a white background done in photoshop. I would like to bring this image into illustrator to incoroporate with my drawing.
Is it possible to make the white background of the jpeg image to be transparent so that the drawing done in illustrator shows through the white background area only :confused:
Any suggestions given would be very much appreciated!
Thank you! :)
when you have the flower selected in Photoshop inverse selection then go to menu help Eport transparent just do the steps this will give you an EPS file with a transparent background [ path locked in file]. the EPS file if you want to check it has worked do not press open, go down the menu and select Place instead.
Rod
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Originally Posted by
handrawn
PS I dont think you can save jpg transparent either - png tif tga, gif of course if 256 colors ok, but not jpg?
You're right, JPG doesn't support transparency. It's a limitation within the file format.
(see also Wikpedia articles about Graphics file formats)
Regards,
Remi
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Hello
You're right, JPG doesn't support transparency, but I wrote that jpg in Illustrator can be placed without background (path will be masking background).
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yo
good job my drawing hand isnt dyslexic
:)
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Originally Posted by
martin_DTP
You're right, JPG doesn't support transparency, but I wrote that jpg in Illustrator can be placed without background (path will be masking background).
Yes, it's nearly the same function as Egg uses in his popular YouTube video about "Extracting part of a photograph" - not with Adobe Photoshop, but with Xara Xtreme. It's a different method, but it's a good one.
Xara Xtreme includes bitmap images within a vector drawing and allows you to handle these bitmaps with some clever vector methods (the path keeps editable all the time).
Regards,
Remi
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Originally Posted by
nutmeg
Thanks for the links! but isn't the answer I'm looking for.
I don't want to remove the background as there's nothing to remove.
I want to know how to make the white background of the Rose invisible when it is placed in illustrator. Please look at the example attached.
Anyone know how I could do that either with Photoshop or Illustrator?
Thanks! :o
I had to sign up to this site. It was painful to read all of the comments giving you suggestions for photoshop. What's wrong with people. Good if your trying to help but the guy who just gave you google links was obviously just proving a point.
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Originally Posted by
nutmeg
Remi, Thanks for the info!
I managed to sort it out ;)
So dude how'd you fix it?
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Hello Jamie,
How was it painful to read suggestions about Photoshop when this is a Photoshop forum?
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Originally Posted by
martin_DTP
Hi
You can insert jpg picture without backgroud. You must:
I. In Photoshop:
1. Create path by "pen tool".
2. Copy this path by "path selection tool".
II. In Illustrator:
1. Place jpg picture.
2. Paste path by CTRL C (PC) or cmd C (Mac).
3. Select picture and path by selection tool.
4. Create clipping mask (cmd 7 or menu/object/clipping mask/make)
5. In this way you will get jpg without background.
Alternatively - you can just do this in Illustrator rather than copying the path from PS. Just draw your path and make sure it is above the photo then grab both the photo and the path and do Ctrl+7 to make a clipping mask.
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Originally Posted by
Creamlistner
There are better ways >.>
If your using PS(photoshop) than heres how.
In your tool box there Is an eraser, If u right clikc It says "background eraser"
This will let u click on the white and It will turn It transparent.
If you have trouble with that, use the pen tool to outline the flower and copy and paste It onto a transparent doc.
Try this out and let me know how It goes.
Save as Png. Otherwise It dosent work, jpeg dosent do transparent =)
This is pretty much correct, but you have to change a few settings to delete only the white background:
Select "background eraser"
At the top set "limits" to Contiquous, "Tolerance" to 50%, Tick "Protect Foreground Color" and set "Sampling" to Once
Set Color of foreground to Red and background to White and that should erase the background with deleting the image itself:D
Save as Png or Gif
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Hey there,
So my understanding of jpgs has been turned on its head as of today!
Check out the attached and place it in an indesign doc... then tell me how on earth this jpg has a transparent b/g??!!??
I don't know how they've done it! There is a RGB/8# in the title of the file in PS... and I can't seem to get the # in there on other jpgs no matter how I save them?! However, this may not have anything to do with it...!
Completely perplexed,
Rexoids!
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the file you posted is a jpg and does not have a transparent background
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Hi Rexoids, what you have to get your head around is that any bitmap (.jpg, .gif, .tif, .png or whatever), is a rectangular shape that is made up of a matrix of pixels. Some of these pixels may well be white and look transparent if placed against a white background and may appear to be not rectangular, like your carton.
What needs to be done can be accomplished in several ways. Using a pixel pushing program like Photoshop or Paintshop Pro, where it is possible to select portions of the picture by their colour using a magic wand tool.
Or you can use a vector based program like Illustrator, CorelDraw, Inkscape or Xara Xtreme and draw a vector outline around the shape and slice it out of its background. Saving or exporting by either method has to be done by selecting either a .gif or a .png file with the option of using alpha transparency, whereby you can select a colour to become transparent.
The result will still be a bitmap, and it will still be rectangular, but the removal of the white, for example, will mean its background will look transparent against a background of a different colour.
In my example below (click thumbnail to enlarge) I have used Paintshop Pro, but the same method is used in Photoshop. The vector method, using Xara Xtreme is fine for shapes that don't involve complicated parts like hair or fur.
Saludos,
Bob.
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Bob I am not sure what Rexoids is actually asking..
Rexoids - once you load a jpg into an editor such as InDesign or Photoshop, then yes you can edit out the background because whilst it is held in the editor program although it is named as a jpg type, it is not the actual jpg you are ediiting. You are editing a working image in memory.
You can then save/export that image in a file format that supports transparency, such as png - but if you save it as jpg you will loose the transparency, because a jpg file does not support it [cannot do it]
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Very well explained in just a few words. Top marks Steve.
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It's 100% Working,
It's Really Helpful.
Thanks for your Posting.
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In this Forum (as was the case in the Adobe Tutorial I visited before it) everyone seems to be responding to a question NOT ASKED. Everyone (trying to be helpful) gives instructions on how to do this process in Photoshop... when the original author [and I] would like to know how to do it in ILLUSTRATOR :-). If anyone can help with a simple step 1, step 2, step 3, that would be greatly appreciated.
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Using Illustrator's drawing tools, create a vector mask and mask the image.
Or if you need to drop out a single color or variations of that color, use the Mehdi Eraser Genuine filter. You can download it for free.
And JPEG images do not support transparency. So even if you drop out part of the image, the transparency cannot be saved in a JPEG image.
You can create a TIFF or PNG with Alpha channel transparency of your edited image.
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Originally Posted by
YourPCGuruJim
In this Forum (as was the case in the Adobe Tutorial I visited before it) everyone seems to be responding to a question NOT ASKED. Everyone (trying to be helpful) gives instructions on how to do this process in Photoshop... when the original author [and I] would like to know how to do it in ILLUSTRATOR :-). If anyone can help with a simple step 1, step 2, step 3, that would be greatly appreciated.
it may have escaped your eagle eye, but this thread is in the photoshop forum not the illustrator forum - no wonder then that many of the answers were photoshop oriented - but of course most photodshop filters for background removal such as the free ones suggested by Gary and earlier, and masking principles, also work in illustrator - no problem ;)
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Fantastic, SPEEDY reply, THANX! However...
I am a raw beginner with Illustrator (as many visiting this forum may be), so when you reply :
"Using Illustrator's drawing tools, create a vector mask and mask the image." I am already lost :-(
You assume I already have those skills [I DON'T :-)]
My goal was to get an answer like this:
Step 1 - Select This tool =
Step 2 - Click here
Step 3 - Now select this tool =
Step 4 - Do this to change the white to a transparent background =
Now that you have the image separated from the background (or the color white replaced by "transparency"), and now that it is residing on a TRANSPARENT background (workspace canvas),
Step 5 - Do this to select only the image (Not the full canvas) =
Step 6 - Do File - Export - Select .PNG and make sure the TRANSPARENCY option is set.
If you can fill-in the missing pieces of information in the Step By Step format above, it would GREATLY help me and hopefully, many others!
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Originally Posted by
gwpriester
Using Illustrator's drawing tools, create a vector mask and mask the image.
Or if you need to drop out a single color or variations of that color, use the
Mehdi Eraser Genuine filter. You can download it for free.
And
JPEG images do not support transparency. So even if you drop out part of the image, the transparency cannot be saved in a JPEG image.
You can create a TIFF or PNG with Alpha channel transparency of your edited image.
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you don't have photoshop then? - if not this question belongs in the illustrator forum not here...
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Thank you, Handrawn. I know it is a Photoshop forum.
HOWEVER:
1) My Google search "Remove white background and make it transparent in Illustrator" brought me here :-)
2) I downloaded and tried to install the eraser genuine tool (as recommended on this forum).... only to find after I unzipped it - that it has a .8bf extension and therefore will not install when I double click it. I have written to the author to determine how to get this installed as a Photoshop filter and also asked if it will work as a filter/tool in Illustrator.
3) The suggestions all intend to be helpful and I appreciate the time/effort of those responding.
4) HOWEVER, the simple, step by step solution requested at the beginning of this thread (30+ replies ago) still seems to remain allusive :-)
=D> :eek: :confused: ;)
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nothing is simple when you don't know how to use the program by definition ;)
which version illy do you have?
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ok I have taken the time to read this thread through again
firstly - this is quote from the original poster [nutmeg]:
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Originally Posted by
nutmeg
Anyone know how I could do that either with Photoshop or Illustrator?
[http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...75#post166475] post #4
note, as I thought, he/she was asking for a solution in either program, unlike your assertion to the contrary in your first post in this thread.....:p
secondly: despite what has been said, I could not get the mehdi to work in CS5 Illustrator, [does work fine in CS5 Photoshop of course], but I am no illustrator expert
it's possible that Gary may come back to explain masking in illustrator, but this is an old thread - you should, and you are likely to have more success if, you ask in an illustrator forum
EDIT: ok I see you have done that:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...nd-transparent
thanks
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Jim
I wrote a long message and then decided it was senseless.
I also tried copying some of my Photopshop compatible filters into Illustrator's Plug-ins > Photoshop filters folder. But I cannot access them in Illustrator and their Help files were no help.
Sorry if I confused you. I'm confused enough myself.
I could tell you how to do this in Xara Designer Pro, which is my drawing application of choice, but that would mean nothing to you.
Unless you get a copy of Xara Designer Pro 7 ;)
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Originally Posted by
handrawn
ok I have taken the time to read this thread through again
firstly - this is quote from the original poster [nutmeg]:
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http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...75#post166475] post #4
note, as I thought, he/she was asking for a solution
in either program, unlike your assertion to the contrary in your first post in this thread.....:p
Unfortunately, not everyone takes the time to READ like you do. They also don't realize that just because you search for something on Google and click a link, doesn't mean it took you to a relevant result or the right place. If you walked in a room with a door labeled "WOMEN" and saw a bunch of men standing around, would you still assume you were in the women's restroom? :)
I like how people stop posting when they have nothing useful left to contribute or their own needs were met, or in the original poster's case, never answer a question on how they sorted out their problem which could potentially help out hundreds if not thousands of other users. I just wanted to thank you and Remi personally for being so helpful. :)
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