Add a photo or video to a Freeform board on Mac
Add any photo or video in your photo library to your Freeform board.
Add and format a photo or video
Go to the Freeform app
on your Mac.Click
, choose Photos or Videos, then select the photo or video from your photo library to add it to your board.Tip: You can also drag a photo or video into your board from Photos, the Finder or another app.
To change the size, cropping and more, select the photo or video, then use the formatting tools.
Tool
Description
Image Inspector button
Reset a photo to the source media’s original size, replace it with a different photo or remove the photo background.
Movie button
Reset a video to the source media’s original size or replace it with a different video.
Crop Mask button
Mask (crop) a photo to frame just the parts of the photo you want to be visible.
Preview button
Preview the full-size photo or video in a Quick Look window.
Photo and video tips
To preview a photo or other file, double-click it. To preview a video, click
.To preview multiple photos or other files, select them, then press the Space bar. A Quick Look window opens; you can click the arrows near the top left of the window or press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key. In full screen, click the Play button to view the items as a slideshow.
If the background of an image or photo consists of areas that are mainly the same colour, you can remove it — click
, then choose Remove Background.You can add a shadow to a photo or video (or remove it) and change the corners to be rounded (or not). Control-click the photo or video, then choose the option to select or deselect it.
You can also insert a photo from your iPhone or iPad camera. See Insert files from iPhone or iPad to a board.
You can use connector lines between a photo or video and other items. If necessary, click
in the lower-right corner (when connector lines are enabled, the button looks like this 
), click the photo or video, then drag one of the arrows up, down, left or right to add a connector line to the other item.You can modify the appearance of images in so many more ways — experiment with all the options in Format > Image.
Continue to build your board by adding text, shapes or lines, diagrams, links, sticky notes and other files.
If you have a Mac with M1 or later and Apple Intelligence is turned on, you can also use Image Playground to create one-of-a-kind images in Freeform. See Create original images with Image Playground.