Show off your face, your work, your cat. Everyone can use their own profile photo. With ✦ Boost you can add up to 30 photos in all.
Your profile photo (Free too)
- In your dashboard, open Home page.
- Under Your picture, click Upload a photo and pick one.
It goes in your picture’s circle, in place of Nyni’s art. Changed your mind? Click Remove photo, or pick one of the little friends again.
A cover photo (Boost)
The Cover, Magazine, Glass, Studio, Gig, Shopfront, Invitation, Darkroom, SaaS and Podcast looks have a big picture up top (or behind your page). Without a cover of your own, they show the template’s own picture (on SaaS it’s the product screenshot, on Podcast the show art). In Home page, click Upload a cover to put your own photo there.
Photos and galleries (Boost)
In your home page’s sections and on your extra pages, add these blocks:
- Photo: one photo, with an optional caption up to 140 characters.
- Gallery: 2 to 12 photos in a grid. Visitors can open each one bigger.
Each photo needs a few words about what’s in it, up to 100 characters, like “A blue mug on a wooden table”. That’s what screen readers say for people who can’t see it. A photo without them isn’t saved.
All your photos in one place
Open Photos in your dashboard. It lists every photo on your site: your picture, your cover, your background, and each photo in your sections and pages, with a little picture and where it’s used.
- Use my own photo or Replace swaps a photo for a new upload. That’s how you swap the template’s sample pictures for your own.
- Type in the box under a photo to change the words about what’s in it.
- Remove takes a photo out. (A gallery needs at least 2 photos: to remove one of its last two, remove the gallery in its editor.)
- Click where a photo is used to go straight to it.
A background photo (Boost)
In Style, pick A photo as your background. See Style your page.
Photo effects (Boost)
Give a photo a look: Fade, Blur, Grain or Duotone, or None. Pick one next to the photo. A gallery’s effect goes on all its photos.
Which photos work
- JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF, up to 10 MB each.
- Up to 30 photos on your site, your profile photo included.
Before saving, we make each photo smaller (1,600 pixels on its longest side, 512 for profile photos). We also take out the hidden details cameras add, like where and when a photo was taken. A GIF stops moving.
When Boost ends
Your cover, your background photo and the photos on your extra pages are hidden, not deleted. Your profile photo stays. Get Boost again and they’re all back. See When Boost runs out.
Your data
Download my data lists your photos: their sizes, when you added them and their links. Your page in the file has each one’s description, caption and effect. The pictures themselves aren’t in the file, so keep your own copies. Deleting your account deletes your photos too.