How to Change a Recipe Picture

Warning: the size of a recipe picture is limited to 25KB. If you don't know how to resize an image we have placed a link to a free web utility and instructions on how to resize your image on the form where you create new recipes. These instructions can also be viewed here.

The below information is supplementary and should be read in conjunction with the topic titled 'How to Update a Recipe'.

  1. Select the menu named 'Recipes'.
  2. Locate the recipe that you wish to change its recipe picture.
  3. Hover your mouse over the recipe name and you will see three dots (refer to the image below).


  4. Select the three dots with your mouse pointer for the recipe that you wish to change the recipe picture for and a menu will pop open (refer below image).



  5. This will open the 'Recipe Review' form and display the picture for that recipe. Select the 'Edit' button (refer to the image below).



  6. Select (click) inside the dotted rectangle which is displaying just below the recipe picture. The text inside the dotted rectangle will be displaying the words 'Click to select a file' (refer to the image below).

  7. A window will open for you to browse your computer and locate the new picture that you wish to use (refer to the image below).. Referring to the below image follow these instructions:
    1. Browse your computer to locate the folder where you have your recipe pictures saved. In the below example this is the 'Recipe Picture' folder which is located under the 'Pictures' library. Unless you have set up a similar folder structure on your computer this will be different.
    2. Open the folder and select the picture that you want to replace the current picture with.
    3. The name of the selected image will appear in the 'File Name' box at the bottom of the window.
    4. Select the 'Open' button.

    1. After selecting the 'Open' button you will be returned to the 'Recipe Review' form (refer to the image below) where:
      1. The current recipe picture will be displaying above the newly selected recipe picture.
      2. The newly selected recipe picture will be displaying directly below the current recipe picture. It's physical size will also be larger to clearly indicate this is the newly selected recipe picture.
      3. To replace the current recipe picture with the new recipe picture select the 'Save' button. To keep the existing (current) recipe picture select the 'Cancel' button.