How come there isn't a background layer in Illustrator? ok, I want to make a pink background with a red heart in the middle. Inside the heart will be a pink fill with a picture of some cats. I want the cat picture to be white and sort of glow white so that most of the inside of the heart is white. Would I use the gradient mesh tool for that? Since I'm very new to this, I gave up on drawing a heart and just pasted one. So...how do you make a perfect heart anyway? Hope you guys can fill me in. Thanks!