transparency

I have a logo that I am trying to get rid of the white box around. I have done this previously, but I can not get it to work and can not figure out why. I am using the clipping path method that the Help section describes. Any suggestions as to why this isn't working? I have tried .jpg and .eps file types of the same logo, to no avail. Any siggestions?

can you define "isn't working"?

are you trying to export to a file and the box is still there in that file? can you not delete the white area in your original file? etc.

When I say it isn't working, I mean that when I insert it into my powerpoint with a colored background, the white box is still around it. The story of this graphic is that my boss created the text in Word (yes, I know, I said Word...we are a very small company) and for a long time this has been fuzzy. Then we needed it printed on something high quality and they had a professional change it from raster to vector for that purpose. That professional sent us the eps file which I know have, but have no idea how to get this white background box off. I had done it previously with the fuzzy logo using the clipping path in Photoshop and that worked well. I just can't figure out why it won't save without that box. Does that help at all?

greatly, without any explanation i'd assume you were trying to place the graphic on a web page...powerpoint is a whole different animal. a rather ugly one ;)

i don't think an EPS file will support a clipping mask, and i know a JPG won't. if you have illustrator you could probably simply delete the white in the EPS file and resave as EPS and that should maintain the transparency. otherwise i'd try saving as a photoshop file or maybe a PNG file (dont know if powerpoint supports either).

Thanks. That helps a little. Could you tell me what file types do support a clipping mask? Couldn't I just save the EPS to one of those and try it that way?

a clipping mask is more of an adobe thing than a file format thing. several different file types support an alpha channel, an additional grayscale image that shows what is transparent and what isn't (which is what i'd imagine is created when you save out a file with a clipping mask). EPS files aren't also really handled the greatest in photoshop, hence my illustrator suggestion.

TGA, TIF, EPS, PSD, and PNG files (off the top of my head) all support alpha channels. a GIF can have transparency but not a true alpha channel (i.e. it can't be semi-transparent). the question isn't so much what supports an alpha channel as what powerpoint will read that has an alpha channel.

easy thing to try: delete the white areas from your EPS file, save as EPS or maybe PNG and see if it shows up transparent. not knowing powerpoint too well i'd think that that would work...

to get rid of the white, use the magic wand tool, click the white, hit delete then make sure no other layers are below it so u see the default checkard board background, then save for web. gif will get you good transparency, but becareful you dont lose quality.

-tim