Back to Uploading Images to the Media Library Tutorial
welcome in this video we're going to
talk about how to add images to your
media library now the reason why you'd
add images to your media libraries so
you can then use those images on your
pages on your site so for instance this
page I'm making here on frogs it's
looking a little dense as far as text
goes I won't be able to break that up by
adding some images you'll see I do have
one image here on this info slider row
and then this is embedded on this page
because I first uploaded this image into
the media library and then I used a
media card to place in this row so what
I'm going to show you here is how to
upload a new image to the media library
it's pretty straightforward all you have
to do is go up to content media add
media and choose image
and from here you're first going to
upload your file now keep in mind
there's a 2 megabyte limit and you can
only upload these following image file
types the 2 megabyte limit is simply
just so that the page doesn't get bogged
down by large images so page a lot of
times to continue to stay quick let's go
ahead and choose a file here I'm going
to choose one for my downloads folder
that I got earlier today
all right and so once the image uploads
here I'll first need to give it a name
and this name is not going to show on
the image when I put it on my page but
rather it's going to show up them a
media library from what I'm searching
for an image
alternative text is also required this
is important for accessibility reasons
make sure that whatever you put here in
this field is short but descriptive of
whatever's in the picture
and then further down have some cropping
options now these cropping options are
very for very specific use cases for
amusing images the featured crop allows
you to make the crop selection for a
featured image that's gonna be different
than a regular image used in a media
card or something like that on your
pages we have some more information
elsewhere on on featured images but rest
assure that if you want to crop your
image to fit that featured area you
would simply just click on this featured
crop option and then drag across and
make the selection for how you want to
crop the image and then whenever you
utilize this picture in the featured
image area of your site then it'll show
up with this selection hero cropping
corresponds to basically your homepage
so if you're using jumbo slides or if
you're using hero rows that have a
background image this will allow you to
make the cropping for that selection
as you can see here if I if I were to
use this image on my home page it would
use this part of the picture scrolling
down a little bit farther another thing
you can do is you can add related tags
to your media items this is the same for
documents too basically if you want if
you want to relate a bunch of your
images together you can do that so you
know maybe I'm gonna have a whole
collection of frog images so I want to
create a frogs tag that way when I
search for frogs later all the related
images will come up you can actually add
multiple tags if you just click this
button here otherwise that that is an
optional feature so you don't have to
add that if you don't want to I think
I'm pretty good with just the name and
the alt text and fixing the cropping
here I'll go ahead and click Save
all right and so it'll take us back to
the media library and you'll see at the
very top of the list is my brand image
now that the images here I can now
utilize it on my pages on my Jumbotron
etc so in a nutshell that is how you add
images to your media library