Bounding Boxes? Please Help

[streettalker]

I have altered an imagine in Photoshop. Its a picture of a person with a gray background. I want to use only the person in the pic and remove the back and I thought I had successfully done so, but every time I place it or paste it in Illustrator it gives me some Bounding Box or a white background behind it. Why? Is there something I'm forgetting to do before I move the image over to Illustrator? I've also notice that once I have cleared the background in Photoshop and save it or flatten the image, it automatically places a white background. How do I prevent this from happening? Please help a novice Adobe user. :confused:

[GuyB]

When you want to make the backround "transparent" you have to, first, make the backround layer "eligible" to transparency. To do so, double-click on the backround layer (in the layer's palette) a dialog box will appear renaming it "layer 0", click O.K.

Then, after remouving the backround (you should now see it as a checkerboard wich means it is "transparent", save as .psd (photoshop format) and don't flatten your image. Flattening it means that you will put an opaque backround again ! Place it in Illustrator or InDesign.

[streettalker]

Hey it worked!! Thanks Guy! :)