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Edit images

You can edit the image asset's properties. You can also edit the image itself with the Image Editor.

Editing tool availability

The editing tools are available when you work in the back office of your application, for example, to:

  • browse the Media root folder of the content tree
  • add an image or an image asset to a content item by selecting it from a Content browser or an Image picker
  • insert an image into a Rich Text Field

Edit image asset

You can edit the image asset's properties, for example, to provide a different caption for the image, or change the alternative text for the image. To edit an existing image asset, in the back office, the main menu, go to Content -> Media -> Images, choose the image asset that you want to edit and click Edit.

Here, you can:

  • Change the name and caption for the image.

  • Edit the image itself in Image Editor.

  • Change the alternative text, used by screen readers and in SEO.

Use AI to generate alternative text

If the AI Actions LTS update has been installed and configured in your application, the Use AI button is visible. If you have Action configuration/View and Action configuration/Execute permissions, you can click it to have the alternative text generated automagically. The Go to AI actions button can also visible to users with access to the Admin UI. By clicking it, you can quickly navigate to AI actions configuration.

Generate alternative text

  • Change the keywords assigned to the image. Tagging image assets helps keep the media library organized and enables searching images by tags in the DAM.

Edit image in Image Editor

When you edit the image asset, you can edit the image itself by using the Image Editor that enables:

  • image cropping
  • image flipping
  • setting a point of focus within an image

Image Editor is available whenever you see the Edit icon on the preview.

Image Editor icon

Flip

With the Flip feature you mirror the image along a horizontal or vertical axis. Click either the Horizontal or Vertical button to flip an image.

Crop

With the Crop feature you can cut the image down to a desired aspect ratio and dimensions. You can either choose one of the preset aspect ratio options (square, vertical or horizontal rectangle, or widescreen), or click Custom.

After you choose an aspect ratio, a grid appears on the preview. You can then resize the grid to mark an area of the image that you want to be visible. You can also enter the exact width and height values in the Crop size area.

Click the tick icon to confirm the change or the X icon to cancel it and clear the preview. When you confirm the change, the preview refreshes to display a cropped image.

Saving changes

Confirming the crop operation doesn't mean that it has been saved. You must click Save to apply the changes to the original image.

Focal point

If your page contains an image that is larger that the current viewport, for example, when a user accesses the page from a mobile phone, you can select a point on the image that the view should focus on.

This way, a responsive image can be cropped to fit the viewport, so the area that contains the selected point is always visible.

Note

Cropping to focal point is not automatic. The website's templates must be adapted for this to happen. See Use focal point in Developer Documentation for an example of implementing such cropping.

Click the Show point button to see a target on the preview. Drag the target to a point on the image that you want to focus on. Click the X icon to restore the original position of the target.

Undo changes

Click the left or right arrow button to undo or redo the most recent change. Click Reset image to restore the original appearance of the image.

Image Editor: Undo

Save changes

Click Save to apply your edits to the original image and exit the Image Editor screen.