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Let's look at the ways in which you can add an image from your computer, your cloud drive, or from the web—straight into your book

Dan Kemp avatar
Written by Dan Kemp
Updated over a week ago

To add your own images, click on the + button in the toolbar and then choose Images. Click on the link to upload from your own computer.

A pop-up window says "Search for images" with a search bar, a microphone icon, and a magnifying glass icon. Below that, it says "or Upload from your computer."

Files

You can also upload. To do this, click the + button and then choose Media.

A menu with the options: Tools, Media, and Apps. Under Media are the options: Templates, Shapes, Icons, Files, and Embed.

Clicking on Files will open the File manager on your computer. You can navigate to the image/video you want, and choose it by double-clicking and it will add to the page.

Google Drive

Alternatively, you can access your Google Drive files and add images that way. See 'Connecting to Google Drive'.

Embed

A final way to add images is to use the Embed method. For this, you'll need to know the web address of the image - you can get that by right-clicking on it and clicking Copy image address (in Chrome - it will be called something similar in other browsers).

A screenshot of a Wikipedia article about Albert Einstein, with a right-click menu open. The menu options include "Open Link in New Tab", "Open Link in New Window", "Open Link in Incognito Window", "Create QR code for this Image", "Save Link As...", "Copy Link Address", "Open Image in New Tab", "Save Image As...", "Copy Image", "Copy image address", "Search Google for Image", and "Inspect".

Then, click on the Media > Embed option in menu and paste the URL into the box and click Confirm.

A screenshot showing the embed content box with a URL code pasted into it.

A quicker way to hack this is to simply drag and drop the image from another web page onto the page in Book Creator! This will work most of the time (but not always). But remember, a lot of images on the web will be subject to copyright, so be careful to understand whether or not the image can be used this way.

A recording showing a user dragging an image from Wikipedia and placing it into a Book Creator book.

Book Creator for iPad

In Book Creator for iPad, all of your photos and videos are accessed via your iPad's Photo Library. So when you tap on the Photos in the menu you'll see a list of your albums from which to choose a photo or video. Just tap on the one you want and it will appear on the page.

An image of a Book Creator book on the iPad. The user has clicked on the + button and can see photos that are stored on the iPad's photo library.

Another way of accessing photos and video on your iPad is by tapping the + button, then the More tab and then choosing Files. This will access the Files app which is built in to iPadOS.

An image of a blank page of a book. The + button has been clicked and the menu is showing the following options: Shapes, Files, Map and Web Embed.

If you want to add photos or videos from the Files app on your iPad, which will give you access to 3rd party drives, read our article: Share content to Book Creator for iPad from your cloud drives.

Next steps

Once you've uploaded a photo or a video, you can read the next steps for:


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