From Selection icon located at bottom of Path palette, click Make Work Path. This converts any selected area in image into a path. You can use other selection tools to select an image. To select white areas of background, use Magic Wand Tool.

From Select menu, choose Inverse to select opposite areas. When you click on Selection icon at bottom of Path palette, selected image will be made into a path. Use Pen tool to adjust your image.

Now, you will have to set your path to Clipping Path. To do so, from path palette submenu, choose Clipping Path. A dialog box will open. This allows you to choose which path to use as a Clipping Path. Now you can save file in EPS or TIFF file format. This will mask your bitmap image when placed into page layout drawing programs or drawing software. Through this, any bitmap image will have high quality and will be resolution-independent.

Both Photoshop and Illustrator have capabilities of other. Photoshop creates vector objects like shapes and topography. Conversely, once they are rasterized, they become part of bitmap. Illustrator offers a magnificent array of artistry like colorizing, painting and brushing however, what are created are vector objects and not bitmaps. Thus, it can tend to be confusing.

Even graphic masters prefer to acquire both Photoshop and Illustrator because of their distinctive capabilities that complement each other. If you are to modify, acquire, print or arrange web images of a photographic nature, you can have PS or PSE program. If you are to create complicated graphics like logos, schematics, maps, brochures, menus and likes especially with typography then you should use Illustrator.

Both of them have lots of features that we can tend to be indecisive for a point in time to choose which one to get. Truly, they are both great! The only thing you should be aware of is to ask yourself what projects and activities you want to make?, what software suit them best? And then off you can go and enjoy your creativity and craftsmanship…