# Trasparent bitmaps in Illustrator

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**Created:** [July 14, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trasparent-bitmaps-in-illustrator/155084 "2005-07-14T17:10:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![AgentFitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@AgentFitz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AgentFitz)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trasparent-bitmaps-in-illustrator/155084/1 "2005-07-14T17:10:39Z")

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hey, I’m having trouble getting the background of a .jpg to cooperate with me in Illustrator. I knocked out the bg of a photo in ps by deleting the white background but when I brought it into illustrator and tried to overlay it on another layer, the bg didn’t come thru as transparent. next I tried creating an alpha channel on the image and importing it into illustrator as a .psd file, and that didn’t work either.

am I doing something wrong? or is there a certain step I’m skipping in order to get raster images into illustrator w/o their background?