Quote Originally Posted by YourPCGuruJim View Post
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