Photos added to Illustrator are terrible quality. How can I change this?

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April 19, 2021
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Please bear with me, I'm using this program for work and teaching myself. I've tried youtube vids for my current issue, but no luck.

I'm using Illustrator to create digital billboards. When I click File-Place, the picture imports as huge. When I resize down, the quality is terrible. I'm importing JPGs. I've tried clicking and dragging the photo over like some have suggested, but results are the same.

I don't have Photoshop, the closest thing I have is Paint.Net. I won't be able to get Photoshop, so that's not an option. Also, I've read that you need to change the photo to a .TIFF, and the billboard company needs the final product in JPG format, I know I can export it to JPG, but wasn't sure if the different formats would be a problem.

Any ideas on how to get photos into Illustrator without losing so much quality, and without using Photoshop?

Thanks!

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JonathanArias

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why do you assume you are loosing quality? maybe you are scaling and you are seen what you monitor is cabable of displaying. did you make a tiff and see how the file look at what the finish product looks like?

thanks

jonathan

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Michelle0217Author

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Because the JPG looks fine when I open it. When I place it in Illustrator, there's tons of pixellation. It's not a problem with my monitor, I've read that other people have this similar problem, and the recommendation is to open the JPG in Photoshop, save it as a TIFF but even that doesn't work sometimes. I don't have Photoshop, don't have access to Photoshop, the only other thing I have is Paint.Net.

Didn't know if there was a way to get a picture into Illustrator with the same quality as the JPG is originally, without Photoshop, but it doesn't look like there is. I'm not sure why I have Illustrator if I can't use it 😞