Images on Inkbreaker

Custom images are a Pro feature. Free and trial accounts use the image from your sign-in provider (Google or Discord) for your profile picture, and have no upload UI. Paid Pro accounts can upload images for their profile, piece covers, world entries, world covers, and the Cover Studio. Everything you upload stays yours; if you downgrade to free, your uploaded images stay in your library and your profile reverts to the sign-in image until you re-subscribe.

Where uploaded images appear

• Profile image: replaces the small avatar wherever you appear (comments, feed, the writer page header).
• Piece cover: renders as a banner above the title on a piece’s reading page, and as a thumbnail on community feed cards.
• World entry: character / location / faction / artifact portraits and reference galleries. See the worldbuilding image guide for the world-specific details.
• World avatar and cover: small portrait and large banner for a world’s public page.
• Update cover: banner on a world update’s feed card and standalone page.

Images inside a piece

You can drop an image into the body of a piece, not just use it as a cover. Put the cursor where you want it, type /image, and pick “Image” from the slash menu. A small dialog opens with a few ways to add one:

• By URL (every account, including free and trial): paste a direct link to an image. For safety, links are limited to a short list of trusted hosts (Imgur, Unsplash, Wikimedia, and Inkbreaker’s own image CDN). A link from anywhere else is declined.
• Upload (Pro): add your own image, the same way you would a cover. It lands in your library and counts toward your storage.
• Your images (Pro): reuse anything already in your library, including covers and reference art. This is the fix for the old behavior, where this tab only showed images you had inserted inline before.
• Free images (Pro): search public-domain art from museum collections (the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Cleveland Museum of Art) and add a result with one click. Results come four at a time with Back and Next. These are free to use in your writing, and a picked image is saved to your library so it counts toward your storage like any upload.

If you are on a paid Pro plan, you can also paste or drag an image straight into the page. Inkbreaker uploads it for you and drops it where your cursor is, no dialog needed. An image added this way is yours and counts toward your storage; if you later delete it from the page, Inkbreaker removes it from storage too, so you are not charged for an image you took out.

After an image is in the page, click it to select it and drag the small handle at its bottom-right corner to resize it. The size you set is the size readers see. An image never grows past the width of the page, so it stays readable on a phone.

Uploading

Every upload goes straight from your browser to Cloudflare’s CDN. Inkbreaker doesn’t store the original image file on its own servers; we only keep a small database row pointing at the CDN URL plus a few facts (size, dimensions, where it’s used). That means uploads complete in seconds even on a slow uplink.

When you upload:

1. Pick an image (PNG, JPEG, WebP, or GIF, up to 10 MB).
2. Frame it. Profile images use a circular square crop; piece covers use a 16:9 rectangle. Drag to reposition and use the slider to zoom.
3. Click Upload. The image goes to Cloudflare; Inkbreaker confirms and updates wherever it’s attached.

If you replace your profile image, Inkbreaker asks whether you want to delete the previous one or keep it in your library.

Your image library

Open Manage → Images to see every image you’ve uploaded, regardless of where it’s attached.

The filter tabs at the top let you narrow by purpose:

• All: every image you’ve uploaded.
• Piece covers: images currently or previously used as piece covers and banners.
• Book covers: the covers you’ve designed in the Cover Studio, both the ones saved to a piece and unattached drafts. Open one back in the studio or delete it from here; deleting a cover also removes it from whatever piece or series it’s on. Book covers and the art that goes into them are hosted free and don’t count toward your 500 MB. They have their own count limit instead (see Storage quota below).
• World entries: images attached to characters, places, factions, or other entries.
• Unused: images not currently attached anywhere. Safe to delete to free up storage.

Click any thumbnail to see it full-size. Each card shows what the image is attached to (“Used in: …”), the file size, and a Delete button. Attached images can’t be deleted from the library directly; detach them from the entry or piece first.

Storage quota

Pro accounts get 500 MB of image storage by default. The usage bar at the top of the library shows where you are. If you hit the cap:

• Delete unused images from the library.
• Or pick a smaller crop the next time you upload. The cropper downscales to 2000 px wide max, but the source you start with matters: a 12 MB phone photo cropped to a small square still ends up smaller than a 10 MB photo cropped wide.

Book covers and their source art sit outside the 500 MB, so a near-full library never blocks you from finishing a cover. They have a separate limit: you can keep up to 500 cover designs and source images in total. If you reach it, delete a few old designs or their leftover source art from the Book covers tab.

Reporting images

If you come across an image (a profile picture, a piece cover, a character portrait) that violates community guidelines, use the report button:

• On a profile picture: from the user’s profile page, choose Report user → image content.
• On a piece cover: tap the report icon on the piece reading page.
• On a world entry portrait or gallery image: tap the small flag icon in the corner of the image on the public entry page.

You’ll be asked to pick a reason (hate speech, harassment, spam, misinformation, sexual content, violence, self-harm, or other) and can add a short optional note. Reports go to the Inkbreaker moderation team. You’ll see “Reported” on the image afterwards; you can only report each image once.

Downgrading

If you cancel Pro:

• Your uploaded images stay in your library indefinitely.
• Your profile reverts to your sign-in provider’s image.
• Piece covers, world entry portraits, world covers, and update covers stop rendering as if they were never set.
• You can’t upload new images while on the free plan.

Subscribe again later and everything you’ve uploaded reappears where it was attached.