Images

In the “Images” section, you manage images used for playback on your Players.

Supported Formats

  • Any image file type displayed in a modern browser. These include JPEG, PNG, SVG, and GIF (including light animations).
  • Images are not resized automatically; they are delivered and played back exactly as you have uploaded them.

Supported Resolution

  • If you are not using our latest 4K player and a previous version of it, like the RPi 3B+, it will be wise to resize your images to Full HD 1920×1080 before uploading them to your account. Images with huge resolutions can slow down the player if you do not.
  • On the other hand, our latest 4K player can decode 4K images, so feel free to upload any 4K images to your account and display them on your 4K TV screen.

Adding an Image

To add a single image, you click on the ”Add Image ” button found in the images list.

As a next step, you are requested to choose if you want to upload your own photo or select photos from the vast range of free stock images you’ll find in our Gallery (check the below section).

You can Upload an image from your local storage or use the Import from URL option to import an Image file hosted in the cloud.

To select multiple files simultaneously, you can hold [Ctrl] or [Shift].

After successfully uploading an image file, you can:

  1. Type in the Name of the image
  2. An optional Description
  3. Add Tags to the uploaded image
  4. Set the Default Duration of the image if you decide to add it to a playlist
  5. You can set the Play From /Play Until parameters in the Advanced Features. In other words, you can set the expiration date, which means that you can choose the exact date and time that this image will display in your playlist or layout, or you can set the “Always” and “Forever” setting and the image will never expire.
  6. Click Save to finally upload the image

Adding an image(s) with the Drag ‘n Drop option

You can add a file by dragging the specific file or files from your PC directly into the UI of the Images section on the portal, skipping a few steps and saving you some extra time.

Managing Images

In the “Images” section, you can see a list of the images currently uploaded to your account. Image information is organized in the following columns:

  • the Name of the image, along with a Preview (thumbnail) of the actual image
  • the Timestamp (date and time) that the image was modified for the last time
  • the Workspace (for accounts in the Enterprise plan) that the image belongs
  • the Tags (for accounts in the Pro and Enterprise plan) that are applied to the file
  • the Actions column

If you click on the three dots icon in the Actions column, you will be presented with a list of actions that you can apply to your uploaded image files.

See below for a short description of each Action:

  • Edit
    • Change the details of the image by clicking the “Edit” button. Here, you can substitute the actual image, which will be changed wherever used.
      Check out the “Adding an Image” section for details on the fields.
  • Duplicate
    • Create an exact copy of the image file with a new name.
  • Move
    • You can move image files to folders and/or other Workspaces (for accounts in the Enterprise plan).
  • Delete
    • Delete the image file.

Additional Control Settings

You can use the Search box to quickly sort out your image listing at the top-left corner. Search using four columns by name, date, workspace, and tag.

Select one or more images by clicking the square box left to their thumbnail. You can click the Actions button at the bottom to Edit, Move, and Delete all the selected images at once.

At the top-right corner, you can click on the “+Add Folder” button to create a folder that can be used to group media files (the folder will be global among Images, Videos, Audio, Documents, Web Pages, and Widgets).

You can also change the listing and refresh the view.

Pixie Editor

If you Edit or Duplicate an existing image, you will find a button with the description Open With Pixie Image editor under its thumbnail, which will open a complete Image Editor, where you can modify the way the Image looks (crop, rotate, resize), add filters, text, stickers and many more.

Gallery

  • Gallery lets you create a digital photo collection by adding free stock images of your choice. There is also unlimited support for searching and managing image files in your account. 
  • With Gallery, enter a keyword (e.g., Food, Mountains, Animals, Places, etc.) to search for free online stock images. Then, your search’s image results are stored in your account, and you can display them on your screens. 
  • You can choose from hundreds of thousands of free stock images.

Adding an Image(s) by using the Gallery

  • To add an image(s) from our Gallery app, you click on the “Add Image” button found at the bottom of the Images list and then click the “Stock Images” button.
  • In the search box, type a keyword (e.g., Mountains) and select a provider, category, orientation, and type of photo to search.
  • After clicking the search button, our platform will display any available stock image(s) with that keyword. If you would like to have more results, the only thing you must do is scroll downwards. More images will get loaded as you scroll.
  • You can even preview the image(s) by clicking on it before adding that image(s) to your account.
  • Select the image(s) of your choice by ticking the little white box in the upper left corner of each photo and then clicking the “Import” button.