Story Photos
The Absolute Necessities You HAVE to Know About Using Images
A very short tutorial on putting images in your Medium stories (only read the first section)
Want to put an image in your story? Great, you really should. Here is how to do it at a basic, intermediate and advanced level.
You only need to read as far as the basics. You could publish stories on Medium until the end of time using the basics.
Basic Level
Don’t want to spend a ton of time worrying about image copyrights? Want to make sure that ANY publication will accept your image? Maybe you are newer to Medium or aren’t super tech savvy? You can add an image in seconds. It should be from Unsplash and the caption needs to look exactly like this:
Or you can use a picture you took with your own camera and the caption needs to look exactly like this:
How do you do that? For the first option, click on the “+” sign in your Medium story editor and then click on the magnifying glass button. Type in a search word. You will be presented with picture options; pick one and you are done! Unsplash automatically captions the photo correctly so that it looks like the above screen capture. Yay!
