Opening an image with illustrator creates a very large artboard behind the image

[Yahya5C56]

Hi,

Since updating to Adobe Illustrator 26.0.1 I've had this weird behaviour.
If I open an image, a massive artboard opens instead of just the spacing around the image itself.

Photoshop still works fine, but Illustrator is behaving this way. I tried looking in preferences, I couldn't find any options.

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

If you open an image file directly in Illustrator, it will create an artboard based on your previous new document settings rather than the size of the image.

It has always done this as far as I know.

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Create a new document at the size you want and place or drag the image (Shift drag to embed) onto the artboard.