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A Quick Guide to Using Images on Medium
Images. What are you looking at?
Since I am an illustrator and want to mix my illustrations with my words in my Medium stories. I was curious about using my images compellingly.
What are the guidelines and suggestions for images on Medium?
The images for this story were inspired by Madonna’s song Vogue. I saw a news article about Beyonce paying homage to the song on her latest album and then the song was stuck in my head.
Image Formats
According to Medium, the platform supports .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF, and .PNG image formats up to 25MB. You can insert images directly from Unsplash. As an illustrator, I’m more interested in using my own original art. It is good to know that animated GIFs are supported.
Image Dimensions
Your images need to be a minimum width of 692px to make sure that your image completely spans the story page. The height of the image can vary.
Image Alt Text
While the image alt text is not required, many people consider the alt tag an important part of SEO(search engine optimization).
“According to Google, alt text is used — in combination along with computer vision algorithms and the contents of the page — to…
