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Add images and media

Your own photos, free stock photos, pictures made by AI, video, audio and fonts — how to get them onto your site.

Five ways to add pictures

1. Attach your own. In Tell Lanlan, press +, drag photos onto the screen, or paste one, and say where it goes: "Put this photo at the top of the About page."

2. Upload to Media. On the Media page, press Upload to add files without saying where they go yet. Then ask Lanlan to use them: "Use the new kitchen photos in a gallery on the Menu page."

3. Find a free stock photo. "Find a photo of a sunny bakery counter for the home page." Lanlan searches Unsplash, a library of free photos, and adds the photographer's credit to your page as Unsplash requires. Lanlan prefers your own photos when you have them.

4. Make one with AI. "Make a simple logo: a loaf of bread in our green, on a transparent background." Lanlan can make logos, icons, illustrations, photos, backgrounds, textures and the picture people see when your page is shared on social media. Logos, icons and graphics come with transparent backgrounds. Logos, icons and illustrations follow your brand colours unless you ask otherwise; AI photos keep natural colours.

5. Copy from a website or link. "Copy the photos from my old site, oldbakery.com." or "Add the picture at this link to the Team page." Start from a site you already have.

To swap one picture on a page yourself, click it on the page and choose Replace photo. Change words and pictures yourself.

About AI-made pictures

  • AI pictures are made quickly, at draft quality. For a sharp logo that has to scale to any size, upload your own SVG file if you have one.
  • Each account has a monthly allowance of AI pictures, which resets on the 1st. Pictures you make on someone else's Pro site count against its owner's allowance; on their free site, against yours. You'll see a note on the Billing page if you're close to it. The allowance is bigger once you have a Pro site.
  • You can make up to 8 pictures a minute.

Files you can upload

  • Pictures: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, SVG, AVIF, TIFF, BMP, ICO. iPhone HEIC photos need exporting as JPEG first.
  • Video: MP4 and WebM. MOV files need exporting as MP4 first.
  • Audio: MP3, WAV, OGG and WebM. (M4A and AAC aren't supported.)
  • Fonts: WOFF, WOFF2, TTF, OTF.
  • Documents: PDF.
  • 3D models: GLB.

Each file can be up to 50 MB on a free site and 500 MB on a Pro site. SVG files can be up to 5 MB.

Storage

Each free site adds 500 MB to your account's storage, and each Pro site adds 5 GB. Your sites share the total. The Media page shows how much you've used.

What Lanlan does with your pictures

When your site is built, Lanlan makes smaller copies of each JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF picture, so phones download only the size they need. Pictures also load as visitors scroll to them. Animated GIFs are left as they are, so they keep moving.

Choose what stays in view. On the Media page, open a picture and set its focus point — someone's face, say — so it stays in view when the picture is cropped on a phone. You can do the same from the page with Adjust focus.

Delete files

On the Media page, delete one file or several at once. Deleted files are kept for 30 days before they're gone for good; if you delete something by mistake, email support within that time.

To clear out files your site doesn't use any more, ask Lanlan: "Find media we're not using and remove it." It shows you the list first.

Files that Lanlan deletes in other ways, for example when you ask it to delete a specific file, are removed straight away.

What to try next

If you get stuck

Ask Lanlan. In Tell Lanlan, "I can't figure out how to…" almost always gets you unstuck. For anything Lanlan can't help with, email support.