# Photoshop background
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 27, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878 "2003-07-27T20:53:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@zeusevine](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zeusevine)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/1 "2003-07-27T20:53:49Z")
Is there a way to import an object drawn in Photoshop without the background? Basically I just want the drawing and not the background.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/2 "2003-07-27T21:02:33Z")
You’ll have to crop out or cut out the background and save the object as an image by itself.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/3 "2003-07-27T21:04:18Z")
use the extract tool, and trace around the part you want to keep, and fill it in.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/4 "2003-07-27T21:04:18Z")
yup yup…you want to make sure that while its still in photoshop, you don’t have a background behind the layer your artwork is on (you’ll see the white and gray checkerboard behind your artwork, that means there isn’t a background).
Go to File -\> Save for Web, and export it as a PNG. Then Import to Library in Flash, and it should come in without the background!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/5 "2003-07-27T21:23:00Z")
Eh… extract tool? Is that the lasso?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/6 "2003-07-27T21:34:06Z")
no, go to Filter and there should be an option close to the top that says extract. click that and it should take you to another screen, where you trace the outline and stuff.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/7 "2003-07-27T22:04:29Z")
Which Photoshop do you need? I have 5.0 and 6.0 and it doesn’t seem like they have those functions. I mean there isn’t an extract option in the filter menu.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/8 "2003-07-27T22:41:16Z")
i think it’s in a different coloum in 6.0. try under ‘image’.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/9 "2003-07-27T22:58:25Z")
select the drawing the best you can and then hit Command+J (Mac) or Control+J (PC). this keycommand will lift your selection from one layer and put it into another.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-background/26878/10 "2003-07-28T05:43:16Z")
Make a selection on required image and go to HELP in the top menu and u will find Export Transparent Image ( it’s a wizard )
It will open up and ask u for few settings n will do the image transparent n save it as EPS.When u will open it in illustrator u’ve to goto the OBJECT and then COMPOUND PATH n click MAKE.You will be having transparent image.