Adding images to cards

Mood boards, maps, character references, that photo of the whiteboard before someone erased it — images belong on corkboards.

Adding an image

Three ways, all equivalent:

• Click the Image button in the card editor's toolbar and pick a file.
• Paste an image from your clipboard straight into the card.
• Drag and drop an image file onto an open card.

The image lands inline: at your cursor for paste and the toolbar button, or exactly where you drop it. On the board, a card shows its first image as a thumbnail.

Working with images

• Click an image to view it full-size in a lightbox (press Esc on your keyboard to close).
• Drag an image within the card to move it between paragraphs.
• Delete it like any other content — select and backspace, in either editor mode. Deleting an image from a card frees its storage.

Limits

• Per image: 10 MB, on every plan. If a photo is over, export it at a smaller resolution or run it through any image compressor to get under the limit.
• Per account: your plan includes a storage pool — 25 MB on Free, up to 1 GB on Advanced (details). The usage meter on your boards page shows where you stand.

One subtlety worth knowing: archiving a board does not free its image storage — the images are safely kept, so they still count. Storage is only freed when an image (or the card or board holding it) is actually deleted.

What images are good for

Cork stores images inside cards rather than as a gallery, which suits reference material: a card per location with its photo and notes together, a character card with a face to write toward. For heavy photo work you'd want a dedicated tool; for "keep the map next to the chapter that needs it," this is the right amount of image support.