How do I make jpeg image background transparent?

[handrawn]

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?

[RTW1]

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

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

[remi]

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

[handrawn]

Thanks

[martin_DTP]

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).

[handrawn]

yo
good job my drawing hand isnt dyslexic

[remi]

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

[jamiehutber]

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!

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.

Remi, Thanks for the info!

I managed to sort it out

So dude how'd you fix it?

[Soquili]

Hello Jamie,

How was it painful to read suggestions about Photoshop when this is a Photoshop forum?

[Idefriginit]

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.