Placing An Image In Illustrator

If you ever need to place an image into your Illustrator layout, this is how you do it.

When you’re ready to place your image, go to File-Place… in the menu bar. I have the “Place” command assigned to quick key Option-E, which saves me time by simply hitting two keys.

Find the image you want to place and select it. If you want to link the image to the document, select the “Link” box. If you want to embed the image, uncheck the “Link” box.

Select the “Place”  button and your image will be in your document.

Remember that if you do link your image, you must include the image file when you send the file out to be printed.

If you need to make a clipping mask around the image, take a look at my page on making a clipping mask.