Not seeing layers in image that was converted from jpeg to AI file. [Was: Help!!!!]

[teddyr68845513]

Not seeing layers in image that was converted from jpeg to AI file. Im really lost how to use Ai I’m new to the program and I need some help on this. ASAP

[Ton Frederiks]

Please show the (expanded) Layers panel.

And give some more details, did you open the image, place the image, Image Trace?

[teddyr68845513]

I just ope the image in Ai and the layers don’t show up.

[Ton Frederiks]

Please show the Layers panel.

What do you expect from a jpeg image?

[Doug A Roberts]

You opened a JPEG in Illustrator? There should be a single layer containing the image. What are you expecting to see?

[teddyr68845513]

all of the layers that make up the image

[John Waller]

When you convert a single layer JPG to an AI file you still get a single layer file.

The only way to view all the layers which made up the original image is to view the original AI file before it was converted to JPG.

[Doug A Roberts]

teddyr68845513  wrote

all of the layers that make up the image

JPEGs don't have layers. At what point in this file's history did it have layers?

[John Mensinger · Accepted solution]

^Right. The JPEG format doesn't support layers. Every JPEG in existence is a single layer.

[Test Screen Name]

Let's turn this around. There is a REASON you expect to see layers when you open a JPEG. Other people have covered that you won't and never will so... let us know what it is that leads you to expect this?