Preserving 'White' areas, but not backgrounds, in an image trace

Hi there all
I've got a little graphic that I'm working on at the moment. I am trying to trace it using the Image Trace feature in illustrator.
Everything's hunky dory apart from the fact that the original graphic has a lot of white features on it that I want to preserve. These white bits are not bordered so, in the main page of illustrator, they merge with the white background. When I go to use Image Trace, I can either select "Ignore white" which leaves out all of this white detailing, or I can deselect it which means that the trace then includes the white background and the whole image is set into an annoying box.
Does anyone know how I can remedy this? I know in Photoshop, there's that checked background that shows when your work surface is empty. Is there a way of getting this same thing in Illustrator?
Thanks!
CF

CF,
It rather depends on the image.
With Illy, you can use View>Show Transparency Grid or View>Show Grid to see whether there is a background, just as in Photoshop.
In that way you can get rid of that non colour appearing as white, but it will not be included in Image Trace because it is not (included in the image).
But if the image itself contains a white background, Image Trace will be unable to discern that from any other part of the image.
So you may need to have the image in a format without the white background, such as PNG24 instead of JPEG, or with another colour as background.

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