Media: photo

This is the photo part of the Media tab in the post editor. See also Media: video and Media: audio for the other two parts — each works independently of the others.

Uploading

• Supported formats: jpg, jpeg, png, webp.
• Which photos you can upload depends on the broadcaster’s Photo format setting (see Managing general settings). With Landscape only, the default, the photo must be wider than it is tall; a portrait photo is rejected immediately with “Portrait images are not allowed for this organization.” With Landscape and portrait or Free, portrait photos are allowed too. Newsroom checks the file’s actual pixel ratio, not how the photo appears to be oriented in your file browser.
• If a photo carries a rotation instruction (EXIF rotation), as almost every portrait photo straight from a phone does, Newsroom accounts for this automatically: the orientation and size check uses the photo’s upright display orientation (the same one you see in the upload preview), not the raw sensor data. You don’t need to rotate or re-export such a photo yourself first.
• With Enforce minimum size on, the photo must be at least the configured width and height (for portrait photos this applies to the long and the short side). If it’s smaller, Newsroom rejects the upload before cropping with “Image must be at least … pixels.” The requirements that apply to your broadcaster are shown below the upload area.

Cropping

Every uploaded photo has to be cropped before you can save the upload. How the crop frame works depends on the Photo format setting:

• With Landscape only the frame has a fixed ratio, matching the configured export size. If you make it wider, Newsroom automatically adjusts the height, so you can never “skew” the frame.
• With Landscape and portrait or Free you can drag the frame to any ratio, including portrait.
• The frame can’t be dragged smaller than the configured minimum dimensions; Newsroom automatically converts this to the correct on-screen size, even if the photo itself is larger than the available display area (e.g. on a small screen).
• On a new upload, the crop frame starts centered on the photo, at roughly 80% of the width (or of the height, if that would make the frame too wide) — a practical default, not a deliberate editorial choice by Newsroom.
• Newsroom only calculates and saves your drag action once you release it, not live while you’re dragging — and always converts back to the photo’s actual pixel dimensions, regardless of what size your screen happens to display the photo at.
• If you reopen a photo that was already cropped before (for example while editing an existing post), the crop frame starts exactly at the last-saved position — you can adjust it further from there, which is automatically saved again.

Example: with Landscape only and the default export size of 880×495 pixels (roughly 16:9), the crop frame on a 3000×2000 pixel photo starts at about 2400×1350 pixels, always in that fixed ratio, regardless of the photo’s own dimensions.

The fields after cropping

• Description (alt text) — free text field, autosaves as you type. When publishing to WordPress, this text is used as the title, description, and alt text of the image in the media library; on Joomla, it’s used as the image’s alt text in the article. Leave it empty and Newsroom uses the post’s title instead.
• Photographer — free text field for the photographer’s name.
• Tags — separate input for individual tags. These stay entirely internal: they only determine whether and how you can find this photo again in the broadcaster-wide stock photo library (see below) — they aren’t sent to Joomla, WordPress, or any other channel.

Saving a photo as a stock photo

If you add tags to a photo you uploaded yourself, it becomes part of the searchable, broadcaster-wide stock photo library (Media Manager) — reusable in future posts via “Find stock photo”.

Find stock photo (reuse)

“Find stock photo” searches the library by photographer name and tags, paginated; clicking “Import stock photo” links the chosen photo directly to this post, without your own upload.

Deleting

A “Delete photo” button removes the link to this post. For a stock photo, this only removes the link to this post, not the stock photo itself from the library.

Workflow