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Bring your own classroom artwork, logos, and pictures into BoardCraft. Upload them to your image shelf, place them where you need them, and manage the source files without confusing them with the items on your board.
About 7 minutesBeginner friendlyUploads, placement, and storage
1. Prepare your image files
The personal Upload panel accepts PNG, JPG, and JPEG images. Other formats, such as SVG, WebP, GIF, or PDF, are not accepted by this panel. Export or convert your artwork to a supported image format first.
Use PNG for transparent artwork. It is a useful choice for a logo, badge, or cutout that should sit directly over the board background.
Use JPG or JPEG for rectangular pictures. These formats work well for photos and artwork with a solid background.
Start with a clear original. Making a small, blurry image larger on the board will not restore its detail.
Use a meaningful filename. The placed image initially uses the original filename as its layer name.
Check the per-file limit printed in the upload area before choosing files. It depends on your plan. The storage section later in this guide explains the current limits.
For the dedicated photo-based face-insert workflow, use Faces inside the Clipart tools and follow Create Face Inserts with Private Photos.
2. Add files to My Uploads
Open your board and choose Upload. It is the left tools tab beside Clipart. Show the tools panel from the top toolbar if it is hidden.
Choose your files. Click the dashed area labeled Drag and drop images here. You can select several supported images in the file picker, or drag files from your computer into that area.
Wait for processing to finish. Upload progress appears while files are being sent. Successful uploads appear as thumbnails under My Uploads.
Check the shelf. A completed upload is ready to place. It is not automatically added to the board.
Upload storage shows how much storage you have used and the total available. Its limits can differ from those in the screenshot because the screenshot uses an account with Seller limits.
If a file is rejected, read the notice in the upload area. Check its actual format and file size, then try a supported or smaller version. In a batch, check which thumbnails appeared before uploading the files again.
3. Place and reuse an uploaded image
With no uploads selected for library management, click a thumbnail in My Uploads. It adds a new image near the center of the board and selects that image for editing.
Click the thumbnail again to add another instance, or use Duplicate in the selection toolbar to copy the board item. You can return to My Uploads from another board to reuse the source without uploading the file again.
You can also drag a supported upload thumbnail onto empty board space to place it there. The drop target matters: dropping onto an existing unlocked image can replace its artwork, while dropping onto supported text or a shape can apply the image as a fill. Click the thumbnail or use empty space when you want a separate item.
After placing or editing an image, check the board's save status before leaving. See Save Your Board and Resolve Editing Conflicts.
4. Adjust the image and name its board layer
Drag the selected image to move it. Use its resize handles to change its size, or the handle above it to rotate it. For precise measurements, open Properties on the right.
Under Basics, use Width, Height, X, Y, Rotate (°), and Opacity. Read the unit beside each size or position label. Enter a value and click outside the field to finish.
Keep Keep ratio enabled to preserve the image's proportions. Use the layout icons above Basics for flipping, stacking order, and snapping a single image to the board's edges or center. Hover over an icon to read its action name.
Give the placed item a useful name
Open Layers. Find the image's row, initially named after the uploaded file.
Double-click the name. Enter a label such as Reading badge.
Press Enter. The new name identifies that item on this board.
5. Select uploads for library management
My Uploads has a separate selection mode. Hover over a thumbnail or focus it to reveal the small selection control in its corner. Click that control to select the upload for management.
Once at least one upload is selected, clicking other thumbnails toggles library selection instead of adding images to the board. Selected thumbnails have checkmarks, and a small toolbar shows the number selected.
Use the toolbar's X button, labeled Clear selected uploads, to exit this mode. Thumbnail clicks will place images again. Scroll inside the shelf to browse more uploads; additional items load as you reach them.
6. Read the warning before deleting source files
Select the source uploads. Use the corner selection controls in My Uploads.
Choose the trash button. It is labeled Delete selected uploads.
Wait for the usage check. The Delete selected uploads? dialog checks where the files are used.
Read the result. Choose Cancel to keep the uploads, or Delete only when you intend to remove the selected source files.
When an upload is used elsewhere
If the image may be used in one of your private boards, the dialog warns that deleting it can affect those boards. Review those designs before deciding to remove the source.
7. Check storage and solve upload problems
BoardCraft currently uses these personal upload limits:
Plan | Maximum size per file | Total upload storage |
|---|---|---|
Free | 5 MB | 50 MB |
Teacher | 10 MB | 500 MB |
Seller | 20 MB | 2 GB |
The upload area and Upload storage card show the limits applied to your account. A per-file limit concerns one image; the storage limit concerns the total space used by uploads and retained dependencies. The panel also reports how many uploads are in your library.
What you notice | What to try |
|---|---|
Unsupported file type | Export a PNG, JPG, or JPEG. Renaming the extension does not convert the image. |
File is too large | Reduce the file's dimensions or compress it, then check it against the per-file limit. |
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