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Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:58:08 GMT

My suspicion is that you may have named it with a jpg extension but it it actually a PSD or TIF. I say this because your info tab shows that the image contains layers. Like transparency, jpegs do not support layers.

Could you post the image here (use the camera icon to attach it).

Cheers,
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Neale
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Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:36:28 GMT

Here is a screen shot of my photoshop file (missing a piece-- there was a silhouettte of the mans image but it reflected the "eclipse 1", some how it got erased.. btw this file no longer creates the image without transperencies... unfortunately something happened to my file as I was playing around with it. .. so this will not give you the results.. but maybe save some people time... those that are trying to figure out how to do this??)

So I was trying to figure out the same thing as you and I did it by accident. Unfortunately I tried so many things at the same time (in photoshop) that I don't remember how I actually made the jpeg with transparencies. For anyone who doesn't beleive it, I took a screen shot of my file. Here shows the image in an illustrator file. Hopefully someone can crack the code as to how to get this done! (second image -- might help someone figure it out?)

Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:25:20 GMT

Thank you so much.

Kind Regards

Tanja Kent

0770 350 2574

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Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:10:07 GMT

Yes, both PNG and TIF are common, standard formats and any modern program can open them.

Ken

Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:09:00 GMT

Thank you, can those files be edited by someone else in those formats? I took the photos edited them and someone else is going to use them to make a poster.

Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:07:18 GMT

Thank you

Kind Regards

Tanja Kent

0770 350 2574

Tanja@phisssh.com<mailto:Tanja@phisssh.com

Re: How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:00:37 GMT

JPG does not support transparency. You need to save your file as a PNG file. (PNG-24 if you're using Save For Web.) TIF files are much larger, but support transparency also.

Ken

How do I make the background transparent in JPeg

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:33:14 GMT

I have photographed an item in raw and edited in photoshop and saved it as a Jpeg. In PS elements 10 . It seems like the background is transparent how ever if i open the item in another program like word it does not have a transparent background. What am I doing wrong ? Do I need to save it in a different format ? Thank you