Help with photoshop and illustrator CS2, removing bounding boxes around images

if you are opening a photoshop file with illustrator, then you will get a bounding box around it. what you want to do is "place" the image in a new illustrator file. open a new illustrator file, then go to "file>place" then navigate to the image you want and link the image. you should be able to place any text over it in any position you need.

i hope this helps.

Is it that boundary box thing? like that one area is selected? If so, then in photoshop type Ctrl+D to deselect it. Im not sure about in any other programs.