Help · Working with photos
Upload your own photos
Your own photographs sit in the same library as the ones that ship with Crevano, and drop on the page the same way. They are stored in this browser on this device and are never uploaded to us.
Steps
- Click Uploads in the left rail. (Or File → Upload files…, which opens the same panel and the file chooser together.)
- Drag your files onto the Upload an image box, or click it and pick them.
- Wait a moment. Each photo is resized on the way in and appears as a thumbnail below.
- Click a thumbnail to drop that photo in the middle of the page — or drag the thumbnail straight to where you want it.
- Drag the photo to position it, drag a corner handle to resize it, and drag the round handle above it to rotate.
What gets accepted
- Image files only. Anything that is not an image is skipped without complaint.
- Up to 30 files at a time. Add more in a second batch.
- Photos are resized to 1600 pixels on their longest edge as they come in, and saved as JPEG. A 12-megapixel phone photo would otherwise be re-encoded on every export for no visible gain.
That 1600-pixel limit is the number to hold on to if you are printing large. At 300 DPI it covers about 5.3 inches on the long edge before it starts to go soft. The app will tell you when you cross that line — see Why a photo prints soft.
Deleting an upload
- In the Uploads panel, click the small tick button in the corner of a thumbnail.
- Tick as many as you want. A bar appears at the bottom with the count.
- Click Delete and confirm.
> Note > Deleting an upload does not remove copies you have already placed on a page. Those keep > their own image data and carry on working, including in exports.
Where they live
Uploads are held in this browser's storage on this device. They do not follow you to another computer, and clearing your browsing data will remove them. The safe copy is the original file on your own disk — keep it.