Media holds the photos and pictures you've uploaded, ready to use in any email. Go to Designs, then Media.
Uploading
Drag photos from your computer anywhere onto the Media page, or click the Drop images here tile at the start of the grid to choose them. You can add several at once, each up to 10MB, and SplashSend works out each one's shape for you.
After an upload, add a tag or two to say what each picture shows, such as “mugs” or “studio”. Tags help you find pictures, and they help Cruise choose the right photo for an email.
Finding pictures
Search by name or tag in Search imagery or tags, and narrow the grid by shape or by Cruise status. If you have pictures made in the image editor or by Cruise, a menu chooses which to show. It starts on Yours, which leaves out what Cruise made, and also has Everything, Your uploads, Designs and Cruise generated. The two buttons beside the menus switch between Grid view and List view.
The picture panel
Click a picture to open its panel on the right. On a smaller screen, it opens over the page. From the panel you can:
- rename the picture by clicking its name (clear the name to go back to the file's own name)
- open it in the image editor, download it, make a copy, see its file details or delete it
- switch it on or off for Cruise, and give it dates
- link it to a product or a web page, under Links to
- add tags with + Add tag, or click Suggest beside Tags and tap any of the tags it offers
- put it in collections with + Add to collection
Suggest comes with the paid plans.
A copy is a separate picture, so you can change it without touching the original. It goes into your uploads, or into your designs if the picture was made in the image editor.
Photos and Cruise
If you use Cruise, it only puts Media photos into its emails when they're switched on. The switch under Cruise in the panel reads On or Off. A photo you upload starts switched off for Cruise. To change that, click New uploads · Off for Cruise at the top of Media and choose On for Cruise. Click Set window to give a photo dates, such as 1 to 24 December for a Christmas photo. A switched-on photo shows as Scheduled before its dates and Expired after them.
Under Links to, pick the product a photo shows, or type a web address. When Cruise puts the photo in an email, clicking it opens that page, and picking a product also tells Cruise what the photo shows.
To change several pictures at once, switch to List view and tick them. A bar appears at the bottom of the screen. Tag adds a tag to them all, the Cruise switch turns them on or off for Cruise, Window gives them the same dates (such as 30 days, or to the end of the year), and Delete deletes them.
If a picture is in a design, your header and footer, or a Cruise email that hasn't gone out, deleting it asks first and says where it's used. Delete anyway takes it out of those emails, and they show an empty space where it was.
Collections
Collections group pictures, such as “Christmas” or “Studio shots”. Click New collection in the panel on the right and give it a name. Drag any picture onto a collection to file it there.
A collection can also fill itself. Open it and click Auto-fill, then choose what goes in, such as every picture tagged “mugs”, or every landscape picture. Would include shows how many match before you click Apply, and new pictures that match join by themselves.
On an open collection, Override availability gives every picture in it the same Cruise dates at once, which suits a seasonal set.
Tips
- JPEG suits photos. PNG suits logos and graphics with see-through backgrounds.
- Don't put important words only inside a picture, because many inboxes hide pictures at first.