From the course: Learning Illustrator Draw
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Adding an image layer
- [Instructor] There may be occasions when you actually do need an image in your illustration, either as a component part of the illustration, or to add as a piece of drawing, or tracing reference. In this movie that's what we're going to do. Now what I've got here in this new blank document is the default of a draw layer and a background. And I'm going to tap on the background to select it. Remember, new layers are added on top of the most active layer and that way I'll have a drawer layer ready to go. And then tap Plus and choose Image Layer. And you'll see all of the different sources that I can get a file from. So on my actual device, or take a photo with the device camera, my Creative Cloud files, where I'll be going in a moment, Creative Cloud Market and Adobe Stock, and if something is on the clipboard already, paste an image down. Well I'll choose my files, and from there I can access various different points in Creative Cloud. But here I want to use this library. Because what…
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