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Manage photos in the media library

Picture kinds, the size guide, dishes without a photo, matching by file name, and cleaning up.

Media is every picture your menus use, in one place: dish photos, covers and banners, popup images and logos. Open it from Menu → Media, and drop files anywhere on the page to add them.

The Media page in tamr, with a strip of dishes without a photo, a size guide, filters by kind and a grid of photos
Media. Dishes still waiting for a photo on top, the size guide beside them, and your library below.

What is on the page

Dishes without a photostrip
The dishes still waiting for a photo, with a progress bar such as "4 of 12 done". Select a dish to add its photo, or See all for the full list. When every dish has one, it says Every dish has a photo.
Size guidereference
The ideal size for each place a picture shows. See the table below.
Filterskind
All, Dish photos, Covers and banners, Popups, Logos and Unused, each with a count. Popups and Unused appear once there is one.
Search, sort and viewtools
Search by name, sort by newest, oldest, name or size, and switch between Grid and List.

Size guide

Upload PNG, JPEG or WebP files, up to 5 MB each. A bigger photo is fine: the menu resizes it.

PictureShapeIdeal size
Dish photo3:21280 × 853 px. Lists crop it square, so keep the dish in the middle.
Menu cover16:91600 × 900 px
Banner slide21:8744 × 283 px
Popup3:41080 × 1440 px
Logo1:1512 × 512 px. A PNG with a clear background works best.

Add photos

  1. 1
    Upload

    Select Upload, or drop files anywhere on the page. A small panel shows each file as Waiting, Done or Failed.

  2. 2
    Put a photo on a dish

    Hover a photo and select Use on a dish, or open a dish and choose From your library in its photo field.

  3. 3
    Or bring them in with your menu

    Photos found when you import a menu → come along into the library.

Match photos to dishes by file name

When your photographer names files after the dishes, for example lamb-kebab.jpg, tamr can place them for you.

  1. 1
    Start the match

    In the Dishes without a photo strip, select Match from library, or use Match photos to dishes by name at the foot of the library.

  2. 2
    Check each match

    Every photo is paired with the dish whose name matches its file name. Exact matches show Matched; looser ones show A guess, check it. Change any pairing, or skip a photo.

  3. 3
    Confirm

    Confirm to put the photos on their dishes. Nothing is placed until you do.

Matching reads file names, not pictures

tamr does not look at what is in a photo. A file called IMG_2041.jpg cannot be matched; rename it first, or place it on its dish by hand.

Rename, replace and clean up

Select a photo to open it large. From there you can:

  • Rename it. The name is what search and matching use.
  • See its kind, dimensions, file size, when it was added and Where it shows.
  • Upload a new version. It keeps its name and place in your library, and every dish using it gets the new photo.
  • Download or delete it.

To tidy up, open the Unused filter. It lists library photos that no dish shows. Tick several with Select all or Shift-click, then Download or Delete. Deleted photos leave your library for good; dishes that already use them keep their photo.

Generate photos with AI

Generate all with AI in the Dishes without a photo strip asks Ask Tamr AI to create the missing photos in your brand's photo style. You can also generate one at a time from a dish's photo field.

Pro

Generating photos with AI is part of Pro. Uploading, renaming and matching your own photos are free on every plan.

FAQ

Why is a photo labelled Cover or banner when I uploaded it for a dish?

Until a dish uses it, tamr guesses a photo's kind from its shape: wide pictures count as covers or banners, tall ones as popups. Put it on a dish and it becomes a dish photo.

Does deleting a photo remove it from my menu?

No. Dishes that already show it keep their photo. Deleting only removes it from the library.

Can tamr recognise which dish is in a photo?

No. Matching works on file names only.

Related

Edit dishes

The dish photo field and every other dish field.

Set up your brand

The photo style used for AI photos.

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Last reviewed October 14, 2026