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title: How to insert and resize campaign story pictures
description: "**Campaign story pictures drive more contributions. It's easier for supporters to emotionally connect with images, so sprinkle them throughout your story for a greater chance at success!** ## **Part 1: Inserting pictures** **Open your story editor and click the picture…"
url: "https://connectionpoint.com/help/docs/how-to-insert-and-resize-pictures-in-the-campaign-story/"
updated: "2024-01-15"
category: Campaign Management / Campaign Story
tags:
  - campaign editing
  - campaign optimization
---

# How to insert and resize campaign story pictures

**Campaign story pictures drive more contributions. It's easier for supporters to emotionally connect with images, so sprinkle them throughout your story for a greater chance at success!**

## **Part 1: Inserting pictures**

**Open your story editor and click the picture icon to choose a picture to up**

**Our story editors are rich text editors, meaning you cannot grab the sides of a picture and scale it with your cursor. **

So you might feel a bit stuck when you find yourself with only large photos like the example below:

![Screenshot of a campaign story with a large picture of a grey and white rabbit. The picture fits the story screen width. ](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/VUsdvPy1qSAnDPCqQB5U9sQ0ejH_wvm2nJ5ipurewXw6A4LFBIC8E2I3D-WijsCySC5UqKi7AbPH_lAzURZ4NgyOWGFFo46E-f05AhCrLBsOpZHAJ9ApBUDL73_UPIRrJh4k7LgQKrZhKMIHeRmRRg)

While this bunny is ADORABLE, this picture is a bit oversized.

There are two options we have to scale him down a little.

1. **Resize the photo using an outside source.** You don’t need anything fancy; Microsoft Paint or Mac Preview will work fine. Here’s our little buddy scaled back to a much more acceptable 10% of the original:

![](https://connectionpoint.com/help/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pasted-image-0-1.png)

1. **Insert photos into a column. **You can put words and even other pictures side by side. It’s also the quickest way if you aren’t too fussed about sizing. The picture will match the width of the column if it is bigger than the column (and fit inside the column with spaces if smaller).

   Insert a column by clicking its icon in the story editor:

![Screenshot of the story editor with the 'insert/add columns' icon along the top highlighted](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/iez-WDXxrIHCtEbSXpClV6B0w4w0Zf66QhVX2m6PrMu8SBoy-aYmCjMzZrGPGk_1qEA-NHHFuJDMHgAAWqTUIqG2t1-PEcanSjntRY55v4FIwl2wtnCYMd7qxDJQjHPFu-FbYdz_IzSvLG9PyJWJzw)

Which opens up the column options. Choose whatever works best for you:

![Screenshot of the 'insert column grid' menu](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/XqewvPbsG8DDG455SDw6ICyh6X0-wTQNCfc7sB08cEnX00pEs45rG2etkR5cRLZBLVNrC6Rgl1AdJJCcHtLjCrRL6a66V1xNpUXjYqw3tCYTRRQSvYgqB__fjlkGwVXjcrMJtGhyGH6M1GjblRp7Vg)

Once the grid is inserted, click on the column you want the picture to go into, then the ‘Insert picture’ icon in the menu. We’re going to insert Georgie’s picture into the middle column:

![Screenshot of the 'add picture' icon highlighted in the story editor. There is an outline of three columns in the story now, and the middle one is highlighted](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CPWKD8uvGjmRgLWevw0R_gmTGiqXv10Ai4ILMIN20j0ybawLva0kPu5bUuVTvyu9nlKUKyZz__rW7sqfZwoulberm4e5aOOAZ_4_EVNNbhaIC0MkvNVQG3vtVcJe7p0JMzpj0Ye6cQ9QeBN4cPG9Dw)

Et voilà! Appropriately-sized bun:

![](https://connectionpoint.com/help/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/pasted-image-0-2.png)
Hi, buddy 🙂

**Here’s a handy feature that you may need after doing this:**

![Screenshot of the 'column' dropdown menu in the story editor. The third and fourth options say 'Insert cursor above grid' and 'insert cursor below grid'](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/dbTY1GQ6-ZCCzUqaY51SzM1Wfe_QBexSxzb_kkZ72sB5yBWUagPDORm-uALVbRb0rpr0zXaAc6ZeBjcDsk6zrR5tyCvp2GZnck7lM2JjECHPrplnM61ZpES6KElp1ipgUkRC9LG82SWqmU_Vc92dHQ)

When your cursor is in the column, click the menu to move it above or below the grid.

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