YouTrack Cloud 2024.1 Help

Edit Images

Images are a great way to explain difficult concepts and express ideas. A simple graphic or diagram can do a lot to help identify and solve a problem.

YouTrack includes its own built-in image editing tools that let you illustrate and add comments to an image. The image editor is a handy tool for communication and collaboration.

Edit Images Inline

The inline image editor lets you crop, highlight, draw, and blur an image as you author other content. To access the image editor, paste an image into the rich-text editor, then click the edit icon in the upper-right corner. The editing toolbar is displayed to the right of the image.

The inline image editor in YouTrack.

The following options are available from the toolbar:

Control

Description

Draw

Drag to draw a line on the image. To draw a straight line, hold down the Ctrl (Control for Mac) key while dragging.

Highlight

Drag to select an area to highlight on the image. Drag the handles to adjust the highlighted area.

Crop

Crop the image. Drag to set the crop boundary. Drag the handles to adjust the crop boundary.

Blur

Drag to select an area to blur on the image.

Undo

Undo the previous action.

Cancel

Discard the current changes and close the image editing tool.

Save

Save changes and close the image editing tool.

Resize an Image

When you insert an image into an issue description or comment using Visual mode, you can resize it directly in the editor.

Resize an image in visual editing mode.

Drag the bar to the right of the image to increase or decrease its size.

To achieve the same result in Markdown mode, manually set the value for the image height or width. To learn more, see Image Attributes.

Open an Image in the Editor

You can open and annotate any image that is attached to an issue or comment. To open an image file in the editor, click the Edit icon on the image thumbnail.

Open image in editor

Image Editor Tools

The Image Editor supports a range of tools that you can use to modify an image file.

Image editor main

The following controls are available in the toolbar:

Control

Description

Visible to

Restrict the visibility of the attachment to a specific group.

File name

Edit the name of the image file.

Toggle scale

Open the full-sized image or switch back to the preview.

Draw

Drag to draw a line on the image. To draw a straight line, hold down the Ctrl (Control for Mac) key while dragging.

Blur

Drag to select an area to blur on the image.

Highlight

Drag to select an area to highlight on the image. Drag the handles to adjust the highlighted area.

Crop

Crop the image. Drag to set the crop boundary. Drag the handles to adjust the crop boundary.

Comment

Drag to add a callout box where you can enter text. Drag the handles to adjust the size of the callout box. Drag the starting point to change the pointing location.

Undo

Undo the previous action.

Redo

Redo the previous action.

Clear all

Discard current changes.

Save

Save changes and attach the image to the issue.

The image editor also supports a range of keyboard shortcuts. For a complete list, see Image Editor.

Last modified: 20 April 2024