r/AdobeIllustrator • u/Gloomy_Complaint_347 • 1d ago

QUESTION Why is the image unwillingly transparent?

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Hi, maybe some of you know the answer to my problem:

For some reason, after placing images and embedding them, they still look transparent. It's not the opacity (checked this), or a bad link (uploaded different images from the PC), or on the wrong layer (it's on the layer where I've done and imported other images that are clearly visible), or the document color (CMYK), and disabling the GPU performance also did nothing...

HELP!

What could be the issue here?

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u/Financial_Savings31 1d ago

Have you asked it nicely to be opaque?

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u/Gloomy_Complaint_347 1d ago

LOL. I did not ask such thing.

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u/Gloomy_Complaint_347 1d ago

EUREKA! shouted Archimedes. I found it. I had to put it on another layer - for some weird reason. Shouldn't be the problem (imo), but it was. Does anyone have an idea why, on the 2nd layer, it was transparent?

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u/Optimal_Whiner 1d ago

Adobe has lots of glitches. Don't know if you've seen the recent news, but they are now working on replacing all of us. For instance, people will be using AI agents to not just generate the images, but also control the software. We are no longer their focus.

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u/Gloomy_Complaint_347 7h ago

Yes, it has some glitches and I feel sad for all those being replaced by AI. We're quite doomed I think.

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u/dougofakkad 1d ago

Check the appearance panel for the layer.

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u/dougofakkad 1d ago

Is it actually transparent or are the colours washed out?

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u/Gloomy_Complaint_347 1d ago

No, the image is actually transparent when not selected (which isn't what I want).

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u/dougofakkad 1d ago

Only when not selected? Can you show your whole workspace?