CS4: Transparent Background (PSD to ILL)

I'm trying to turn a logo in Photoshop CS4 into a transparent background .eps file so I can use it in an Illustrator CS4 lay out design. Everything I am trying still includes the white background. Grh!
I do not want a GIF file. It needs to be a high resolution .eps or .tif file.
How can I do this?

Use the native PSD file with a transparent background.

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Everything shows up great on screen, but when I print it, wherever the image box (pencil pic) overlaps the blue box, the blue is a different shade. It's like the transparency in the photoshop file is creating a fog on top of the blue box, instead of being absolutely clear. Does that make sense?
Are there any settings I should be looking for in the PSD? I'm trying to avoid making a path around each of my images.
Thanks for any help.
Doug

Bob,
I checked out that link and followed the instructions. Also, reading the comments lead to me discovering that I had to disable "color corrections" in my printer settings.
I am shocked by the result! The colors are so much better! I wish I had known that my printer was messing with my colors all these years.
Thanks for the very helpful link.
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How do I transfer a .psd file to illustrator that can then be placed in Muse as a .svg with transparent background?

I just wrote all this up in another thread. I did not realize at the time that the last post was in 2014, so I'm giving it a go here.
I am currently trying to create an .svg using Photoshop .psd file (with layers in tact). I'm new to these products so it may be obvious to others that the above intention was to eventually place the .svg in some sort of website creation software such as Muse. Which is precisely what I am attempting. However, I am getting a white background once I place or copy and paste into Muse. My starting .psd has a transparent background without any hidden layers causing this problem. To test this I placed the .psd file into Muse and it still has a transparent background. However when opening or placing this file into illustrator, it picks up a white background. If I do exactly as described above, I still get the same result. So far I have tried:
1) Simple copy and paste from Photoshop .svg to illustrator to Muse. Result - white background.
2) Placing the .psd in illustrator, then placing the .svg file in muse. Result - white background.
4) I have also tried the every combination of 1 and 2. - Result - white background.
3) I have now created a path in Photoshop from the text layer to yet again attempt the above methods. Result - white background.
I'm including an image of the object I am trying to place with transparent background, but I have both a flattened rasterized version, a version complete with layers and a third (.svg) with the corresponding objects. I am completely new to Illustrator as of today so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Link to .psd file "Welcome text"

I was having some difficulties getting the correct dimensions of one of my objects, I eventually solved this problem without using svg. It was pretty simple when I stopped trying to over complicate things. I just linked the object to a near by object in photoshop, merged and placed it all as one. It looks great now. Thanks for your reply. You are correct, SVG was not the answer.

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Wow, thank you! That was fast. I googled that question to death and even bought (another) book on CS5 and never saw that answer. Thank you so much. You made a very good ending to my day! I'd buy you a beer if I could!!

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The destination commercial will be created in Sony Vegas, with the settings of (Australian) PAL television (25 fps, 576x720 pixels, lower field first).
Thus keeping it simple, I want to set Adobe flash with the same output format, meaning that the canvas will have to be 576x720 pixels at 25 fps. So far this seems to have worked okay.
Now I'm wanting to get rid of the canvas colour, just like I have here in this photoshop screen shot.
Judging by the colour palette in Flash Professional, it looks like it can't be done. I've checked "transparent palette" through yahoo and google, and had no results. The adobe documentation only details how to remove a background in Photoshop.
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As far as I know there is no option to set up a file with a transparent background in design mode. A transparent background is normally realized in the embedding code of an html web page that displays the Flash file (using wmode="transparent" as a parameter).

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This has been requested for quite some time, and what I've heard from folks who ought to know is that there are some rather large technical impediments to implementing this in InDesign. I too hope that they will eventually deal with it, but it doesn't seem like it will be any time soon.
In the mean time, here is a link to a script on our website which will help with the "place the image twice" workaround:
http://www.premediasystems.com/scripts.html
Towards the bottom of the page, you'll find a link to download the script (which is called "Shadow-matic").
Using it is pretty simple. You place the image, and select it prior to running the script. When you run it, a dialog box will appear listing all of the layers and paths in the image. You can select any combination to be used for the "shadow" image and the "main" image. The script then duplicates the image, sets one copy ("shadow") to "multiply" (in InDesign), and sets the layer visibility and/or clipping path as you specified. It then sets the other copy ("main") to "normal" blend mode (again, in InDesign), sets the layer visibility and/or clipping path, and groups the two images together. The download includes a brief set of instructions...
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Problem with exported jpegs from CS5 PSDs with transparent backgrounds

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Bill,
Another very helpful solution and I appreciate knowing how to fix it in both applications. Thanks!
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When exporting a document to PDF, Pages turns the background white instead of keeping it transparent. I need it to be transparent. Can anyone tell me what to do to fix this?
When I print a document I use stationary that is in my printer. When I want to send the document by email I need to combine my text with my stationary (on the same page). In CS4 InDesign this is really easy with switching layers on/off, but I don't want to use InDesign for my wordprocessing, but Pages. In Pages I can add a background, but I can't switch it on/off. So now I use AcrobatPro 9 to combine my text document with my stationary, adding it as a watermark or background. This does not work with documents I made in Pages since Pages makes the background of a document WHITE when it exports to pdf. Instead it needs to be TRANSPARENT.
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Hi marchaarman
Pages has an odd behavior, it actually puts 2 white backgrounds in the back of its documents.
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Amateur needs help.
I have a copy of a logo with a transparent background. I made the (white) background transparent in PS by creating a layer from background and then selecting the white color in the background and deleting it. This has always worked in the past. But when I place this image into ID, it shows up with a white background. I have tried saving as a PSD, TIF, JPG, etc. I cannot get it to work.
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I totally forgot to put that in my post. Yes, I am putting logos with transparent backgrounds in front of colored rectangles. That's how I noticed that this one logo is showing up with a white background. The weird thing is that the other two logos are fine. I did find a different version of this logo and this one works fine. The one that works fine is a JPG and the one that shows up with a white background is a JPG.

CS4: Transparent Background (PSD to ILL)

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