Adobe Illustrator - Logo has dirty background

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August 1, 2018
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I am very new to Adobe Illustrator, and thought I'd have a go at creating a logo for a not-for-profit. The logo is pretty much what I want except when i use it, it has a slightly off-white background. I cannot figure out how to remove it. Can't even find the layer that has the background.

I have Creative Cloud/Adobe Illustrator. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can fix this issue, please? Thanks in advance.

Jacqui

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Bill Silbert

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Can you show a screen shot of what you're doing? Are you keeping the art as vector (saving as .ai file)? Please include the layers panel and the links panel in your screen shot.

John Mensinger

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BraeNZ wrote
when i use it,

When you use it where, how, and in what format?

B

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Thank you Monika, Bill and John

Monika - I am not sure what you mean by Adobe Illustrator Draw. I am using Adobe Illustrator CC 2018. I first converted (can't remember how!) a monarch butterfly to a vector image - perhaps that was the problem.

John - I keep it in an ai but want to offer it to companies to use in their advertising and promotional material. So I have saved it as a jpg and when I paste it into MS Word to print it out (haven't tried Adobe InDesign yet) it has a discoloured square behind it - the same size as the ai file. You can see that creating the monarch (converting the monarch butterfly to the vector file) created an enormous amount of sub-layers.

Bill - I haven't created any links. Perhaps I should have done it that way...

Hope this is the information you required and thank you so much for your feedback. While I've been using Adobe InDesign for some years and before that PageMaker, this was the first time I'd ever opened AI. Couldn't afford to get a professional to make what I wanted. I'm Windows based too.