Images
Images are the pictures in your project — character portraits, book covers, map images and reference art. They live in one image library per project, so you can reuse a picture instead of uploading it again.
How do I add a character portrait or other image? #
Anywhere a record takes a picture, the picker offers Upload and Existing. That includes a character's portrait, a creature's, language's or organization's picture, a book's cover, a map layer and a location's icon.
- Upload takes a new file: drop it on the box or click to choose one. JPEG, PNG and GIF work.
- Existing shows the pictures already in the project. Press Select on one to use it here as well.
Every upload lands in the project's image library, which you can open from Images in the project. Portraits, covers and similar pictures are resized and compressed as they upload, so they take up less room than the file you chose. Map images are kept as they are.
How much can I upload? #
| Limit | Value |
|---|---|
| One file | 10 MB |
| All images in one project | 50 MB |
Everything uploaded inside a project counts against that project's allowance. Your profile photo belongs to your account instead, so it does not count against any project.
Images shows Storage used for the project, with each picture's size on its thumbnail. The bar changes colour as the project nears its limit. Once it is full, you need to delete some images before you can upload more. Some projects have no limit, and the meter then says so.
When space runs short, delete a few large reference photos rather than shrinking what you keep. A portrait at a sensible size costs very little, while one unresized photograph can cost more than a hundred of them.
Who can see my images? #
In an unpublished project, only people who can open the project see its images. The address of an image stops working after about an hour, so a link copied out of the page does not become a lasting public address for private work.
Once a project is published, its images are public, and so is a published story's cover. That is what publishing means.
How do I delete an image? #
Open Images in the project, point at the picture, press Delete and confirm. An image that is still in use cannot be deleted. Remove it from the portrait, cover, map layer or icon first.
Deleting an image is final. Unlike records, images are not kept in the archive.
Tips #
- Resize large photos before you upload them. It keeps them under the 10 MB limit and leaves room in the project for everything else.
- Reuse instead of re-uploading. Pick the same picture from Existing for a second record; it costs no extra space.
- Clear space starting with the largest. The size on each thumbnail in Images shows where the space went.
- Check before you publish. Every image in a published project is public, so remove reference art you only meant for yourself.
Related #
- Characters — portraits and the rest of a character's page.
- Maps — image layers and location icons.
- Publishing — covers, and what becomes public.
- Deleting and restoring — what the archive keeps, and what it does not.