[Framers] image background problem

[Ken Poshedly]

A question about an image technique that I've never been able to master but it seems everybody else has -- dropping out a white background. I've been assigned with producing a company newsletter formerly done in Word. And though I do use Word when I have to, I'm 22 years into FrameMaker and -- other than this -- it's usually so damn easy to do these things in Frame.

The original newsletter (in Word) has a colorful banner with lettering across top of the first page. I can copy the main graphic element (a stylized color bar with a curved lower edge, similar to the Nike "swoosh") from the Word file and paste it onto the top of page 1 of the new Frame file, but I need to delete a white area from the lower portion of that graphic (easier shown than described; contact me off-list and we can do a share-screen Zoom thing so I can show you what I mean).

I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to "apparently" successfully delete that white portion from that jpg file; the formerly white area of the original image is now the familiar grey checkerboard. I saved that modified image as a psd file. 

But when I imported the new (psd) image to partly overlay another graphic element on the first page of the FrameMaker 10 version of the newsletter, the imported graphic still has that white area which overlays the other graphic element. Which is what I don't want.

What didn't I do or what am I doing wrong? Whatever was done in Word should more easily be done in Frame, or so I thought.

Help please?
-- Ken in Atlanta