Authoring
The Image Library
The Image Library is where uploaded images live — separate from any one Document, so you can reuse them and keep them organised.
Note
The Image Library is part of the paid PRO subscription. On the free tier you can still use images in your content by pasting an image URL (see Using an image below); uploading and managing files is a PRO feature.
Folders
- My Images — your personal folder, visible only to you.
- Publication folders — one per Publication, shared with that Publication's owner and any accepted Collaborators. A Publication's folder is created with the Publication.
Create sub-folders to organise by project, series, or shoot. Select images (and folders) to move or delete them together — see Selecting images and folders below.
Selecting images and folders
Select several images and folders to act on them together. Once anything is selected, the header swaps to a selection toolbar showing how many items are selected, with Move to, Delete and Add to New Folder.
- Click anywhere on a tile — an image or a folder — to select it, and click it again to deselect it. The tile's checkbox shows whether it's selected; you can tick the checkbox too. Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on a Mac) does the same.
- Shift-click a tile to select every tile between the one you last clicked and this one. Shift-click again to add more from that same starting tile.
The tile's own buttons keep doing their own job: the size buttons copy the image's URL, and the icons in the corner move or delete it.
Double-click a folder to open it, or an image to preview it (see Previewing an image below). With the keyboard, press Enter on a folder to open it.
To clear the selection, click the N selected button in the toolbar, press Escape, or click an empty part of the grid. Opening another folder clears it too.
You can also drag a selection onto a folder — a folder tile, a folder in the sidebar, or one in the Move to panel — to move everything in it at once. Dragging a tile that isn't selected moves just that tile.
Uploading
Open the Image Library from the side menu and use Upload Image, or drag files onto the window. Large batches upload a few at a time, each with its own progress.
Generated sizes
Every upload is automatically converted to WebP in a fixed set of sizes, constrained on the longest edge:
| Name | Longest edge |
|---|---|
| thumb | 300 px |
| — | 600 px |
| — | 1200 px |
| — | 1800 px |
| max | 3000 px (cap) |
Sizes larger than the original are skipped — images are never upscaled. A website showing your content picks the right size for each reader's screen automatically.
Previewing an image
Double-click anywhere on an image's tile to open its preview. It shows:
- the image at the size you pick — choose any of its generated sizes under the image, and Copy URL to copy that size's address;
- its filename, dimensions, file size, upload date and folder;
- Move and Delete (greyed out if you didn't upload the image and don't own its folder).
Use ‹ Prev and Next ›, or the left and right arrow keys, to step through the other images in the same folder.
Select the fullscreen button on the image to view it fullscreen. The arrow keys still step through the folder, Show info brings up the image's details, and Escape returns to the preview.
To copy an image's URL without opening it, use the copy button on its tile; its menu lets you pick which size to copy.
Using an image
Every image field in SkyScribe opens the same image picker: a Document's splash image, an image inside the body (the image button in the editor toolbar), a Publication's splash or logo image (when you create it, or later on its Config tab), and the Design Wizard's header logo and footer images. It has two tabs:
- Library — browse your folders and pick an image (PRO). When the picker belongs to a Publication — a Publication's own splash/logo, or a Document that belongs to one, including images in its body — it opens in that Publication's folder; the All Folders breadcrumb takes you back out to My Images and every other folder you can reach.
- Image URL — paste the address of an image hosted anywhere.
The Library tab has its own Upload Image button, so you can add a new image without leaving what you're editing.
Dropping images into a Document
While writing a Document you can also drag image files straight from your computer (PRO):
- One image onto the body uploads it and inserts it where you dropped it. Pasting an image you've copied works the same way.
- One image onto the Splash image field uploads it and makes it the splash image.
- Several images at once upload into the library and open the image picker, so you can choose what to use.
Images go into the Document's Publication folder, or My Images if it doesn't belong to one. Dropping a file anywhere else on the page does nothing.
Uploading to and picking from the Image Library needs a PRO subscription, which includes 250MB of image storage per site. Without one, the picker opens on Image URL, and the Library tab explains how to subscribe.
For a body image you can then resize it and add alt text from its toolbar in the editor.