What is the most efficient way to create an image with no background?

When I create, or use, a logo, or type, or any graphic image,in a design, I want to import it to InDesign with no background - "transparent", if you will.
The steps involving importing from PShop seem convoluted, at best, with bitmap, greyscale and eps files... I know I am on the wrong track with this process, since it never seems to work.
Also, wish to import from Illustrator and sometimes Painter12.
Is there a quick'n'dirty way, or a best way, to do this?
Thanks, forum people!

First, it's OK to combine responses into a single post. Everything goes to the forum, not the individual, so we all see it all,so to speak.
Double clicking the background or duplicating it are just different paths to the same end, and you pick one based on what you are doing, as much as anything. "Background" in Photoshop is locked for transparency, so if you need a tranparent background you MUST do something. If I know I'm not going to need to do other stuff, I probably would double-click and convert the layer just for convenience and to reduce the file size, but if it's a client file or I know I may need to add adjustments and so forth, I usually will duplicate the background (even if I don't need transparency) and turn off the original. This gives me an untouched backup position and a source for making more copies, if necessary. I don't like doing any sort of destructive edit without using a copy of the original data.

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From: [email protected]
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Subject: what is the most efficent way to create both a standard and HD DVD
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