Add Images to Your Chapter

Images can serve multiple purposes in published material: they can engage readers by creating visual interest. More importantly, images can also illustrate, clarify, denote relationships, call out similarities or differences, and more. Pressbooks makes it simple to incorporate images into your published work.

Add an Image to Your Chapter

1. Click the Add Media button above the editor toolbar.
   
2. If the image has already been uploaded to the Media Library, select it and click Insert into Chapter.
3. Otherwise click the Upload Files tab.
   
4. Add the image by dragging and dropping it in the window or by selecting it through your file navigator.
5. Add image alternative text and image information.
   📕 Learn more about adding image details in our User Guide chapter on Adding Images.
6. Choose the desired alignment and size for the image.
   
7.  Click Insert into chapter.

Edit an Image in a Chapter

1. Click on the image in the Visual editor.
2. Click the Edit button in the image toolbar.
   
3. Review and edit the image details (alternative text, caption, display settings, etc.)