Learning how to make a white background transparent in Illustrator is a basic and very important task. There are cases where you need an image that is displayed without a background.

Here you will have to select the background color for the image i.e. Color 2 here. For e.g. if your background color is white, you will need to set ‘color 2 ’ to a similar shade of white here.

I occasionally need to convert the background color of a particular image to be transparent so that the image looks better on medium with backgrounds of colors other than the image's original ...

Steps for how to make the background transparent in Photoshop Upload your image into Photoshop and then click Window and then check Layers if it doesn’t already have a tick next to it Rasterize ...