AI Red Box around images

[Hi01928374655]

Heya everyone! 

I'm struggling in AI with this red box that appears in place of a (JPEG) image. I'm dragging my image from Finder into AI. The image isn't visible but I can move the box around where the image should be. 

I'm trying to arrange three of this image around a circle to make a pattern using the objects on path tool. I'm not sure if that's even possible so I came here. Hopefully someone knows whats up! Thanks for considering my request!

PS. When I double click the red box the image appears but I can't do anything with it.

[Ton Frederiks]

I am not sure what I am looking at.

It looks like you have opened a Photoshop file and dragged another image into it. Your second image shows Isolation mode.

It would have been better to first create an Illustrator file and use the Place command to add the images.

[Anna_Lander]

could you please show the screenshot with the Layers panel expended? I have some assumptions but I need to see the doc structure to say something useful.

[kglad]

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