Preserving Transparency from Photoshop CS3 to Illustrator CS3

Hello all,
I'm trying to figure out how to preserve an image's transparency between Photoshop and Illustrator. Both apps are CS3.
In the broader design context, I'm trying to move an isolated wine bottle from Photoshop into an Illustrator document. I'd like the neck of the bottle to overhang a series of dotted lines in the Illustrator document.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

double-click the background layer, so that it becomes Layer 0, or whatever you want to name it. Background layers are not capable of transparency, so you have to make the layer into a non-background layer.
A more flexible way to do this; instead of *deleting* the area you want to be transparent, while the selection is active, click the "make layer mask" button at the bottom of the layers panel. This is non-destructive to your original image, and can easily be edited or tweaked in the future.
I highly recommend learning to use layer masks while you are learning to use layer transparency. I'll bet Doug would recommend this as well.

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On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:44:22 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a multi-page PDF to individual GIF files, one per
> page, in Photoshop. Sounds pretty easy, but alas...
>
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> Windows XP with 512MB of RAM,
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