: Isolating an object in Photoshop to paste in Illustrator I am trying to select an object out of a photo and place it in illustrator without a white background around it. I have selected the

@Eichhorn212

Rather than copy/paste, which does not bring in transparency, make sure your PSD file has a transparent background and only what you want showing is visible. Then from Illustrator you can File > Place the PSD image and the transparency will come through.

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@Frith110

You Cannot Just copy and paste your Object for Photoshop to Illustrator in order to get Transparency It will create a white background behind your object.

To resolve this issue you first need to save you image in .PNG format With Transparency then import your layer in Illustrator this will give you the transparent background just like you needed.

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