• Adobe Illustrator

  backgrounds on objecs in Illustrator

  Posted by William Thompson on December 23, 2013 at 9:06 pm

  Hello Forum.

  How do you make the background of an object transparent in Adobe Illustrator?

  I have been having issues with using the Magic Wand tool in Adobe Illustrator as well as the lasso tool.

  Basically, I am trying to put a small graphic into a new Illustrator file.

  The first thing I tried to do is to use the magic wand tool. But I found out that this did not work on a jpeg image since it did not have any individual objects to select.

  So I tried something new. I opened the file in Adobe Photoshop and used the lasso tool to select an area. Then I coped this area. Then I tried to paste it into Adobe Illustrator. But the background was not transparent for the pasted image.

  How do I make the background transparent.

  I made this small video to show what I am talking about:

  https://youtu.be/KQrovAq59zk

  I noticed that the background is a layer in the image I made in photoshop. I tried turning it off or making it invisible, but that did not help.

  https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/hidebackground_zps0338ed4b.png

  https://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/backgroundinphotoshop_zps04ea33fd.png

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  Vincent Rosati replied 12 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Vincent Rosati

  January 6, 2014 at 1:53 am

  To get a vector out of Photoshop
  Make your selection, as you did.
  Than Window / Path / Make work path.
  There is a Work Path button at the bottom the the Path palette, or in the Path drop-down menu.
  Now you can File / Export paths to Illustrator.
  This will create a file with the path objects in the PS file.

  Now back in AI, you can add a color as a fill. Or if you need the raster texture you can paste it in (or better, File / Place an external resource TIF or PSD), than use the path as a clipping mask on the raster.

  Let us know.

  Vince

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