# Images

> The images Inspect found in your file, and how large each will print.

**Why it's flagged.** Inspect lists every picture in your file, inline or floating. For each it gives:

- how much of the text width it fills in your file;
- the width that share comes to on this book's page (an image as wide as your text prints as wide as the book's text, never wider, and a tall one is held to 80% of the page's text height);
- its pixels, and the resolution (dpi) they give at that printed width;
- whether it's in color, and the caption typed directly below it, if any.

Your file's text width is that of its main section. If your file gives no page size or margins (Google Docs exports often don't), Inspect assumes a US Letter page with 1 in margins. Before the transmittal sets a trim, it uses Pocket, the default.

Color images stay color in the EPUB and turn gray in print unless the transmittal says *Color interior*; to control the gray version yourself, place your own gray image in the manuscript. The count also fills in your transmittal's checklist.

**Choosing a size.** On the Inspect report, open *Images* and pick a size for any picture: *As placed*, *Full width*, *Two-thirds*, *Half*, *One third* or *Own page*. Own page gives a picture a page to itself when it sits in its own paragraph after the first chapter heading. The small page beside each picture shows how it will sit on your book's page, and the line under it gives the new printed width and dpi. A smaller size prints sharper. Sizes save at once and apply to the print PDF and the EPUB from the next build, so rebuild a proof to see them. A picture used twice has one size for both. Charts and drawings can't be sized here. The book's default, as placed or full text width, is under *Illustrations* on the [transmittal](transmittal.md).

Problems get their own findings: [too low-resolution](finding-low-resolution-image.md), [floating](finding-floating-image.md), [no alt text](finding-missing-alt-text.md), [caption on the wrong side](finding-caption-position.md).

**How serious.** Just noting.

**How to fix it.** In any editor:

1. Put each image in its own paragraph, inline rather than floating or wrapped.
2. Make it the width you want relative to your text: full width in your file prints full width in the book. Or leave the file alone and choose a size on the report.
3. Type the caption, *Figure 1. …*, in the next paragraph.
4. For a full-width figure, use an image at least 300 pixels per inch of the book's text width: about 1,000 pixels wide for Pocket, 1,300 for 6 × 9.

**When to leave it.** Leave it. This is a list, not a problem.

[All Inspect findings](inspect.md)

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Source: https://studio.jdbb.net/help/finding-image-inventory