How to I get a transparent background in CS4 ?

I have a Mac computer and am following Lynda.com's tutorials, but I haven't been able to find anything about how to clear the background of a photo so that I can give it another background. Could anybody help me?

Ok.
Open image > select the background layer > Right click and duplicate layer > reselect the background layer and delete it by clicking on the bin at the bottom of the pallet. Now your image is as a layer. if you select the eraser tool then select brush from the mode dropdown option at the top of the screen then you can change the size of the brush either by the short keys "[=smaller or ]=larger" or by using the brush sizing tool then you can erase a way! let me know if that helps?

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Thanks, but I wrote
19. dyemotion,
Nov 18, 2013 9:43 AM in reply to TREX
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