Why can't I drag and drop or place images into illustrator any more?

[joanna34002217vyhh]

Recently I've been having problems getting images into illustrator.  I can't drag and drop, copy and paste or place them. This has been an issue on and off for the last few months. It worked ok last week but stopped working again today. They just don't appear.

I'm using a mac with the Mojave operating system and a 2021 version of illustrator. I'm struggling to upgrade due to the age of my mac (which otherwise works fine).

[bigsplashstudio · Accepted solution]

I downloaded version Photoshop 25.3.1 and that allowed me to drag and drop images from Photoshop into Illustrator 2024

[Hand36735925ilpm]

Yes it worked! Thanks a lot.

[Ton Frederiks]

Photoshop 25.9.1 and Illustrator 28.5 will let you drag and drop from Photoshop to Illustratrator.

But be careful, the Illustrator document color profile will be silently changed (if different) to the profile of the Photoshop document, causing your colors to change.

[paulkrone]

Sometimes when I drag an image from the finder desktop or a folder into illustrator, it opens in a new tab window. This is because the layer I am dragging it into an illustrator is locked. If I unlock the layer, then the image will be placed in illustrator.

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