How to erase on a "placed" image in Illustrator

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February 1, 2014
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Whenever I "place" an image into illustrator it wont let me erase on the actual image. Any ideas on how I can make this happen?

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divbzfBSHVDJDShjvbfWHLJV

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It is absolutely ridiculous that you can't trace select a portion of a placed item to get rid of the background in Illustrator. Especially when it just automatically flushes the transparent aspect of the image to bring pure white.

There is no [curse word removed by moderator] reason I shouldn't be able to selectively crop out a portion of a placed image.

jane-e

Community Expert

divbzfBSHVDJDShjvbfWHLJV wrote
There is no reason I shouldn't be able to selectively crop out a portion of a placed image.

You can crop in Illustrator. Select your image and choose Crop Image from the Control panel.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

What kind of image? a pixel image?

You can't erase pixels in Illustrator. Do that in Photoshop or use masks instead.

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plclark5Author

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JPEG...yeah I am fairly new to Illustrator...I am in to typography and so I like to draw a rough sketch of my drawings on paper then scan them into my computer where I then clean them up. Do you have any suggestions on how I can upload an image and be able to erase and manipulate the image itself? Or is that not possible?

Thanks!

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Do you have any suggestions on how I can upload an image and be able to erase and manipulate the image itself?

use a raster image editing software like Photoshop or GIMP

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