If your LinkedIn profile is to serve as a piece of online personal branding that helps you stand out as a professional, one simple step you can take is customizing your background image.

Learning how to make a white background transparent in Illustrator is a basic and very important task. There are cases where you need an image that is displayed without a background.

Here you will have to select the background color for the image i.e. Color 2 here. For e.g. if your background color is white, you will need to set ‘color 2’ to a similar shade of white here.