White Background Remnants

Question

I am having trouble with portions of white background not becoming transparent in Illustrator,

I am placing a Photoshop .tif file into Illustrator, performing an image trace, mode color, white ignored. View / show transparency eliminates most of the white background, but there are several enclosed areas (but not all) where the white remains. Refer to the center of the letter ”O” in the attached file.

Why does this happen?

How to remove the remaining white areas in Illustrator?

The areas were all transparent in the original tif file in Photoshop.

Thanks, Joe

justlearn · Accepted Answer

@josephc66141161 my first reaction was did you click on 'expand' because you did the image trace, and some people forget to hit the 'expand' to breaks down the compound paths into individual, editable paths. If you did do that, maybe it was a complex image (not knowing the original image). You could just select both the white and black and make it a compound path, Command 8 for the Mac, Control 8 for the PC?

Monika Gause · Answer

They were not truly white. But maybe light color.Try and select them using the Magic wand tool. With a double click you can edit its threshold.

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