Uploading your own files

You can bring your own pictures and video into your library — to edit them, to use them as a starting point for something new, or simply to keep them beside related work.

How to upload

Any of these:

• Drag files onto the page. Anywhere in the workspace will do.
• Use the upload button and pick files.
• Drop a file straight into a field that is asking for a source image, when you are setting up a generation.

You can upload several at once. Progress is shown as they go, and each file appears in your library as it finishes rather than all at the end.

Where uploads go

Into your library, under Uploads. They sit alongside things you generated and behave the same way — you can favourite them, put them in folders, download them again, and delete them.

Uploading through a source-image field does both things at once: the generation gets its picture and the file is in your library, so you never have to upload the same picture twice.

What you can upload

Audio is not uploaded this way. The Upload button takes images and video; an audio file is refused with “Only images and videos are accepted.” Audio reaches the product as reference material, attached on a video tool’s own panel, where MP3 and WAV are both accepted — see making videos.

MOV, AVI and MKV are converted to MP4 after upload so they play everywhere. That is automatic and takes a moment, which is why a video occasionally shows as still processing just after it arrives.

If a file is refused it is almost always one of those limits. Export a smaller version, trim a long clip, or save in a listed format and try again.

Storage

Your plan includes an amount of storage, and uploads count against it. When it is full, an upload is refused and tells you how much you are using — the message names the figure rather than failing silently.

Two ways forward: delete things you no longer need, or move to a plan with more room. See downloading and deleting and plans and payment.

Generated work counts too, which is why clearing up after a batch is worth the two minutes.

Privacy

Uploads are private, like the rest of your library. Nobody else can see them.

What you may upload

Files you own or have the right to use. Uploads pass the same content checks as anything generated here, and a file that fails a check will not process.

Two things worth being careful about, because they are easy to do without thinking:

• Other people’s photographs. Being able to download something is not the same as having the right to use it.
• Pictures of other people. Especially where you intend to publish the result.

The terms in the app are the full statement of what is permitted.

Hidden information in your files

Photos from a phone or camera usually carry hidden information: when the photo was taken, what took it, and often exactly where. You cannot see it by looking at the picture, and it travels with the file when you share it.

If you intend to publish or send a file you took yourself, strip that first. See removing file information.

Using an upload

Once a file is in your library you can:

• Start a generation from it — a new version in a different style or setting
• Erase something from it, or upscale it
• Pull a still frame out of it, if it is a video

If an upload fails