--- title: "Pictures: made for you, or your own | Briks" url: https://briks.dev/docs/pictures description: "Choose how your site's pictures are made, add your own photos and logo, replace any picture without spending credits, and fix a picture that is wrong." last_updated: 2026-10-08 --- # Pictures: made for you, or your own Briks makes the pictures your site needs as it builds, and you can swap any of them for your own photos at any time. This page covers the two picture options, how to use your own photos and logo, how to replace a picture without spending credits, and what to do when a picture is wrong. 7 minute read Checked against the studio on 8 October 2026 ## Choose how pictures are made You choose once for each project. The choice applies to the first build and to every change after it. | Option | Price | What happens | | --- | --- | --- | | **Default studio model** | Included | Briks finds or draws pictures that fit each place on the site and cuts them to size for it. There is no charge for pictures. | | **GPT Image 2.5** | 1 credit a picture | “Every picture on the site drawn new for it by GPT Image 2.5, at 2048 pixels.” Charged by the picture when the build finishes. | The price a picture is shown next to the option in the studio, and it is the one you pay. Under the options, the studio adds one honest line: “Pictures the studio draws may also appear on other sites. Pictures you upload stay yours and are only used on your own sites.” If a picture must belong to you alone, upload it. Set it when you create a project 1. Open the Pictures step Where: New project In **New project**, the **Pictures** step reads “Choose how the site's pictures are made, and what they cost.” 2. Pick an option Where: Pictures Leave **Default studio model** chosen, or choose **GPT Image 2.5**. 3. Check the review Where: Review and create With fresh pictures chosen, the review says they are added to the build's charge at their price a picture. Click **Build it**. To change it later, open **Settings**, **Preferences**, choose in the **Pictures** group and click **Save** at the foot of that group. The new choice applies from your next change. Pictures already on the site stay until something replaces them. Where 1. Projects 2. Your project 3. Settings 4. Preferences 5. Pictures Good to know With **GPT Image 2.5**, the small print under a reply names the pictures in its charge, for example “incl. 12 fresh pictures (12 credits)”. ## What made pictures are like - Photographs of people, places and products in use, planned section by section. A section gets only the pictures its plan gives it; others carry shapes drawn in the page or just words on a colour. - No readable words, signs, logos or watermarks inside a picture. Your name and logo are set as type and as your logo file, never painted into a photo. - People in made pictures are invented. Even if your description names your team, a made picture never tries to show a real person. To show real people, upload their photos. - Each picture appears once on a page. Before publishing, Briks checks that no picture it made is placed twice. - If the build stops for your approval, pictures are made after the last stop, so none are made for a look or layout you turn down. ## Use your own photos Your own pictures and videos live in your workspace's media library. Anything in it can be used on any project in the same workspace. - Pictures: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 25 MB each. - Videos: MP4 or WebM, up to 250 MB and under 5 minutes. - The library counts towards your plan's storage: 500 MB on Free, 5 GB on Starter, 10 GB on Pro, 25 GB on Studio and 100 GB on Agency. Put one of your photos on the site 1. Open your media Where: Message box In the studio's message box, click **Add from your media**. A box titled **Choose from your media** opens. 2. Upload or pick Where: Choose from your media Click **Upload**, or drop files onto the box. Filter with **All**, **Pictures** and **Videos**, then click the one you want. 3. Say where it goes Where: Message box Its link goes into your message. Add where it belongs, as the box suggests: “as the background of the hero”. 4. Send Where: Message box Send the message. It is built and published like any change. Up to six pictures and videos can go in one message. You can also attach a picture straight to a message: click **Attach pictures**, paste one, or drop it anywhere over the conversation. Each attached picture has two choices. **Reference** shows the look you want; **On the site** places the picture itself. A message with your own photos A neighbourhood bakery in Leeds > Use sourdough-shelf.jpg from my media as the hero picture instead of the bread board, and team-2026.jpg in the About section, with the caption “The early shift, 5am”. Briks builds it as a change and publishes. The **Media** tab now lists both photos, each marked “From sourdough-shelf.jpg in your media” and so on. Your photos join after the first build The description on **New project** takes words only, and screenshots on **Show what you like** are for the look, not for placing on the site. Add your own photos once the first version is published. ## Add your logo and favicon 1. Open Settings Where: Settings, General In the project, open the **Settings** tab. It opens on **General**, whose first group is **Name and marks**. 2. Upload your logo Where: Name and marks Next to **Logo**, click **Upload** and choose a PNG, JPEG or WebP file. It is used in the header and the footer in place of the drawn mark. “A PNG or WebP on a transparent ground reads best.” 3. Add a favicon Where: Name and marks Next to **Favicon**, upload a square picture, at least 180 by 180. It is the small square in the browser tab. 4. Save and apply Where: Settings, General Click **Save** under **Name and marks**. If the site is already published, saving publishes it again with your logo and favicon. This holds no credits. ## The Built with Briks badge Sites on the Free plan show a small **Built with Briks** link in the bottom-left corner of every page, away from the chat in the right one. On a phone it shrinks to the Briks mark, so it never covers what visitors tap, and it is left out when a page is printed. On the Free plan the badge can't be switched off. **Name and marks** says so in place of a switch: “Your site shows a small Built with Briks badge in a corner. It comes off on a paid plan.” On a paid plan the badge is off. To show it anyway, switch on **Show the Built with Briks badge** (“A small link to Briks in the bottom-left corner of every page. Off unless you switch it on.”) under **Name and marks** in the project's **Settings**, then **Save**: a published site is published again with it, holding no credits. A site that moves from Free to a paid plan loses the badge the next time it is published. Where 1. Projects 2. Your project 3. Settings 4. General 5. Name and marks ## Replace a picture without spending credits The project's **Media** tab lists every picture and video on the published site, with where each one sits (“In home page”) and whether it came from your media. 1. Find the picture Where: Media Open **Media** in the project's bar and find the picture you want to swap. 2. Click Replace Where: Media A box opens: **Choose the new picture**. Pick one from your media, or upload one there. A picture can only be swapped for a picture, and a video for a video. 3. Say what it shows Where: Replace Fill in **What it shows**. For a picture it is required, because it is “Read out by screen readers and search engines, in place of the old picture's words.” 4. Publish Where: Replace Click **Replace and publish**. The new picture takes the old one's place everywhere it appeared, and the site is published again. Replace uses no credits, because no AI work runs: the file is swapped and the site published again. It shows in the conversation like any change, so [Versions](https://briks.dev/docs/versions) can undo it. Watch out If the picture you choose is already used elsewhere on the site, the box warns “This is already on the site elsewhere, so it will show twice.” Replace also waits while the site is building (“This site is building. Try again when it finishes.”) or while an A/B test runs. ## When a picture is wrong | What is wrong | What to do | Cost | | --- | --- | --- | | You have a better photo | **Replace** it from the **Media** tab | No credits | | The subject, mood or crop is wrong | Describe the picture you want as a change in the studio | A change: 5 credits held, charged for the work, plus the price a picture with **GPT Image 2.5** | | It needs to show a real person, such as you or your staff | Upload their photo and use **Replace**, or place it with a message | No credits with Replace | | The same picture shows twice after your own swaps | Replace one of them with a different picture | No credits | | A change made the pictures worse | Go back with **Versions** | See [Versions](https://briks.dev/docs/versions) | A change asked for A café in Hebden Bridge > The hero picture shows a latte on a marble table. We are a working café by the canal: show the counter from the door in morning light, with the cake stand and two people queuing. Briks replaces that one picture and publishes. The rest of the site is left as it was. ### Who owns the pictures I upload? You do. In the studio's words: “Pictures you upload stay yours and are only used on your own sites.” ### Can a made picture show my actual product? No. A made picture shows the kind of thing your business does, not the exact item on your shelf. For real products, upload your own photos. ### Can I use a video? Yes. Videos in your media go on the site the same way, through **Add from your media** or **Replace**. ## Read next - [Your site's features **Media library** Upload your own pictures and videos once to the workspace media library, place them on any project from the prompt box, and swap pictures on a site for free.](https://briks.dev/docs/media-library) - [Working on a project **Making changes** How to change your site by writing to Briks: what to say, adding pictures, what a change holds and costs, inner pages, queued requests and fixing a miss.](https://briks.dev/docs/making-changes) - [Working on a project **Versions, undo and redo** Every build and change is saved as a version of your site. Undo a change, redo it, or put any earlier version back live exactly as it was, with no credits held.](https://briks.dev/docs/versions) - [Getting started **Credits and plans** How Briks credits work: holds of 50 and 5, charges for the work done, estimates and builds that wait, what happens at zero, and what each plan includes.](https://briks.dev/docs/credits-and-plans) Still stuck? Write to [hello@briks.dev](mailto:hello@briks.dev) with your project's name and what you expected to see. A screenshot helps.