Images and media

Put images in frames, check they're sharp enough to print, and track every image's source, license and placeholders in the Media register.

Images live in your file library, not in the deck. The deck keeps a record of each one: where it came from, its license, who uploaded it, and where it's placed.

Put an image in a frame #

Select an image frame on the page. To add one, click + image in the page bar.
In the Inspect tab, click Upload into this frame… and pick a file. Or, under Or pick from this deck, click an image already in the deck.

PNG, JPEG, WebP and GIF files work. Very large images are scaled down when they're uploaded, and the Inspector shows the size they started at.

Upload several at once #

With nothing selected, click Upload images… in the Inspect tab, or in the Media sheet. Pick as many files as you like. They join the deck's images, ready to place.

Fit and alt text #

Fit: cover (crop) fills the frame and crops the image. contain (letterbox) shows the whole image with space around it.
Alt text (read aloud, not printed): what the image shows, for screen readers.

Check sharpness #

Under Image in the Inspect tab, Pinup checks the image in its frame, at the frame's printed size:

Effective DPI against each export: Web — screen PDF wants 96, Print — 300 DPI wants 300. Well under the target shows as an error, a little under as a warning.
Aspect: when the image's shape is quite different from the frame's, cover will crop it.

When the original file would have passed but the uploaded copy was scaled down, the check says so.

The Media register #

Click Media in the top bar. The Media sheet lists every image in the deck with:

File: name, size in pixels and file size.
Source: where it came from, with an editable source link.
License / credit: type them in.
People: who uploaded it, who asked for it, and who last changed it.
Placed on: the pages it's on, or "not placed".
FPO: a placeholder, for position only.

Edits save when you click away or press Enter.

From the deck's Inspect tab, clicking an image jumps to its row here.

Replace an image everywhere #

In the Media sheet, click Replace everywhere… on the image's row.
Pick another image from the deck, or click Upload a new one….

Every frame that held the old image gets the new one, as one step you can undo. The status note says how many frames changed, and whether any now miss a sharpness check.

Placeholders #

Tick FPO to mark an image as a placeholder. The Media tab in the top bar shows how many placeholders are left.

Click Generate report page to put a "Media report" page at the front of the deck, with the placeholder master list. It stays page 1. Click Generate report page again after changes to refresh it.

Find open images #

Under Open-image search (Wikimedia Commons) at the bottom of the Media sheet, search for freely licensed images for mock-ups. Click Add as placeholder on one to copy it into your file library. Its source link, license and credit are recorded, and it arrives marked as a placeholder until you clear FPO.

Your search goes straight from your browser to Wikimedia.

Clean up #

Remove unused images from this deck drops images no frame or pending proposal uses. The files stay in your file library.
Manage storage (all decks) ↗ opens your file library on your account page: what every deck uses, and cleanup you can undo.
Download register (.csv) saves the register as a spreadsheet.

Who can see the images #

Only people on the deck's project, and anyone with the deck's live view-only link, can load its images.

Images can't be added to a deck that's Local only or in a project folder on your computer, because they're stored in your file library. See Local only.