How do I make jpeg image background transparent?

[perspective]

People are still answering the question in 2012 and new young designers need to know the answers and no one had given a correct answer. And yes, you may have good reason to bring raster art into a vector program as I am a vector designer, but the end result will be a raster file in all cases. Jah Rastafari.

[steve.ledger]

.. no one had given a correct answer.

I see lot's of correct answers to the OPs question in post#1
What was your answer to "How do I make jpeg image background transparent?", exactly?

[perspective]

Nutmeg states 'I would like to bring this image (a jepeg image with white background) into illustrator to incorporate 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'

My answer was - You are working back to front. Jpeg will not go into illustrator without the white background and clipping will not change that!

Please show me one correct answer.

[steve.ledger]

The point is, you can knock out the background from this JPEG in several ways as mentioned earlier before bringing it into Illy or simply do it all in Illy.
As the OP asked "Anyone know how I could do that either with Photoshop or Illustrator?" then either method is a valid answer for him/her.

You can try to tell us all that we're all doing it wrong, working back-to-front, inside out or upside down (in my case as I'm in Australia) and that there's just "one correct answer" by which time we've all finished the task while you're still talking

[perspective]

Thank you for that, I am happy you have at last shown how it's done! I am sorry to have wrote a load of c**p but you are the only one that have showed a lot of us just what is needed. And I think a lot of new Illustrator and Photoshop artists will learn from your work. Now I am done!

[mwenz]

I just wanted to address something way back in post #22. The challenge/question was:

Check out the attached and place it in an indesign doc... then tell me how on earth this jpg has a transparent b/g??!!??

And the response immediately following was that the image was a jpg and did not have a transparent background. And that is true.

However, as shown in the Illustrator example just above by Sledger, the key is the clipping path Sledger created in AI. However, by default, Indesign will create the clipping path upon import of jpgs.

Take care, Mike

[handrawn]

not sure what you mean by that last bit Mike