Image montated to illustrator is HUGE!

I edited a photo in Photoshop to be 14x14cm.
I opened AI and opened a worksheet the size 14x14cm (image to cover the whole worksheet).
However the image gets HUGE al over the screen, a lot outside the worksheet even if its just 14x14cm.
I have been told touching the image in any kind (even dragging it down to suit the worksheet) will affect the quality of the image, is this true?
I tried .eps and .tif format but both ended up huge in AI:(
Someone please help.
What format should I use to get it to only cover the worksheet when imported to AI?

Jacob Bugge wrote:
KJD,
Just set the size in the Transform panel.
I have been told touching the image in any kind (even dragging it down to suit the worksheet) will affect the quality of the image, is this true?
No.
I don't know about the "No" scling in Illustrator is not a good idea. If you scale down in Illustrator your ppi will increase per cm if you scale up you it will as well and the image will not reproduce to well if you scale up and loose too much of the ppi.
So what you have been told is correct do not do it.
first of all I just save 14x14cm image and placed it in a 14x14cm ai document and it is perfectly the same size as the placed image.
So that brings us to what is going wrong on your end
Can we see a screen shot of the image with the image size window opened in Photoshop and the screen shot of the new document window in AI?
That should tell us some.
By the way what kind of document are you creating in Illustrator?

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