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You can swap any photo on your site in the builder, without asking the AI: pick the photo, choose a new one from your Media Library or your computer, and describe it. The new photo is saved to your site right away and reaches visitors when you publish. This guide swaps the story photo on Northwind’s About page for a photo of a Guatemalan coffee farm.

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Pick the photo

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Open the page

Open your site in the builder (see Open Your Site in the Builder) and choose the page in the page menu above the preview. Here it is /about.
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Click Visual Edit

Click Visual Edit in the toolbar above the preview.
The builder toolbar with the page menu set to /about and the Visual Edit button outlined

The About page, with Visual Edit

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Double-click the photo

Double-click the photo you want to change. (A single click selects the box around it.) The panel on the left shows the photo’s Image section: the current picture, Upload, Media library, Image URL and Alt text.
The Style inspector for the selected img, with the Image section outlined: a preview of the roastery photo, the Upload and Media library buttons, the Image URL and the Alt text Jamie Holloway at the roaster

The Image section for the story photo

The panel may say the element appears more than once on the page and that edits change all of them. Check the preview after you swap: on Northwind only the photo you picked changed.

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Choose the new photo

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Click Media library

Click Media library. The Select Media box opens, with your site’s own pictures under Site Files, everything in your Media Library under My Assets, and Brand, Stock Photos and AI Create.
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Pick the photo and click Insert Media

On My Assets, type a word from the photo’s name in the search box (here “guatemala”), click the photo, then click Insert Media. The cards are labeled with each photo’s stored file name rather than the name you gave it, so pick by the picture and its folder (here Origin photos). The photo changes in the preview straight away and is saved to the page.
The Select Media box on My Assets with the search guatemala, the terraced coffee farm photo from the Origin photos folder selected, and Insert Media outlined

The farm photo, picked from My Assets

To use a photo from your computer instead, click Upload in the Image section (images up to 10 MB), then click Apply.
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Describe it and click Apply

Alt text is filled in from the photo’s alt text in your Media Library, or its name if it has none. Make sure it says what is in the picture. If you change it, click Apply. Screen readers read it aloud, and search engines use it too.
The Alt text box reading Terraced coffee farm in the Guatemalan highlands at sunrise, with the Alt text box and the Apply button outlined

The alt text, ready to apply

The About page now shows the new photo.
The Northwind About page in the preview, with the terraced coffee farm photo outlined next to the story text

The new photo on the About page

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If a click selects something else

Some photos sit under a color tint or a shade, so clicking them selects the tint instead. Pick the photo from the list of everything on the page:
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Open the Navigator

Click the layers icon in the strip on the far left of the panel. The Navigator lists every part of the page.
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Click the img row

Open the section the photo is in and click its img row. Then click the paintbrush icon at the top of the strip (the Style inspector) to see the photo’s Image section.
The Navigator with the layers icon outlined in the left strip and an img row outlined inside the Live Events section

A photo picked in the Navigator

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Put it on your live site

The new photo is saved to your site, but visitors see it after you publish. Click Deploy at the top right of the builder, then Deploy next to Production (see Publish Your Changes).

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Good to know

  • Photos behind text. A photo used as a background (behind a headline, for example) has no Upload or Media library buttons: the panel says background images can’t be edited here yet. Ask the AI in the builder chat instead, for example “Change the photo behind the headline on the home page to the Guatemala farm photo from my Media Library.”
  • Changed your mind? Pick the photo that was there before: your site’s original pictures are under Site Files in the Select Media box.
  • Name your photos well. The search in Select Media finds photos by the names and tags you give them in your Media Library. See Upload and Organize Your Photos.
  • More: Edit Text and Styles by Clicking covers the rest of Visual Edit, and Media Library and AI Images covers where your pictures live.