The photos are what people actually judge a location on. The rest of the record explains the photos.
Uploading
- Open a location
- Click Add Photos
- Pick as many files as you want
- Wait for the uploads to finish
You can also paste an image straight from the clipboard, in the location form, the bulk edit dialog, and the references dialog. That covers a screenshot from a listing, a still pulled out of a location video, or a photo an agent sent over WhatsApp.
Ordering, and which photo becomes the cover
Drag photos to reorder them. The first photo is the cover. It is what appears on location cards, in folder previews, in exports, and in anything you share, so the establishing shot belongs in position one.
There is no separate cover setting, no star to click. Position is the whole mechanism, which means moving a photo to the front is also how you change the cover.
Per-photo captions are not a feature. Text about a specific photo goes in the location's description, and if you imported from a spreadsheet with a captions column, the importer folded those into the description for the same reason.
What happens to your files
Each upload is stored on Cloudflare Images and served in three sizes: a 300x225 thumbnail for galleries, a 700px-wide preview for cards, and the full-size original for anyone who opens the photo properly. They are converted to WebP, which is why a shared gallery loads quickly on a phone.
Keep the originals. Upload the highest resolution you have, since the app generates the small versions from it and cannot work the other way round.
What to shoot
The photo sets that survive a director's questions tend to have the same things in them:
- An establishing wide that shows what the place is, for position one
- Each room or area that might get used, from the angle you would actually shoot it
- The awkward parts, low ceilings, the pillar in the middle, the window that faces the wrong way, because these come up eventually and it is better they come up now
- Something showing access and surroundings: the approach, where trucks would park, what is next door
Video
Locations hold video as well. A two minute walkthrough answers the questions stills cannot, starting with how the rooms actually connect and how far it is from the door to the road. See Adding Video to a Location.