How to insert an image file

[swiftech]

• Operating system: MacOS 10.15.5
• Pencil version: 3.1.0

I can't find out how to insert an image file into the diagram, it seems that only screenshot can be taken and inserted. You might say that I can open the image file and take a screenshot to get it done, but I still consider inserting image directly better in some cases.

[nitramr]

You can insert images as following:

1. Go to "Common Shapes" in shapes panel
2. Drag "Bitmap Image" to your canvas
3. Right click on your image element
4. Select "Action" in context menu and choose "Load Embedded Image..."
5. Choose an image from your local system and that's it

I think it would be better to have an image picker in the properties panel.

[julianpoemp]

You can insert images as following:

1. Go to "Common Shapes" in shapes panel
2. Drag "Bitmap Image" to your canvas
3. Right click on your image element
4. Select "Action" in context menu and choose "Load Embedded Image..."
5. Choose an image from your local system and that's it

I think it would be better to have an image picker in the properties panel.

I think this is very user-unfriendly. Users expect inserting images the same way other programs do. The most applications support different ways to insert images:

1. Insert via menu bar. Something like Actions > Insert > Image
2. Insert via Copy & Paste: When a user pastes a file the image should be placed instead of it's name as a text box.
3. Insert via DragnDrop

Now it's for beginners very frustrating to find that option because the option is not located in a place where the user expects it. It took me some minutes and searching on google to find a way to insert images. That should be much easier!

[cakepuller]

I know this is several months late ...but in v3.04, I could just drag and drop an image into a page. This is on Windows 10:

• Open Windows explorer
• Open Pencil
• Drag the image file into Pencil Done! ¯_(ツ)_/¯