Image Component

Start Crop

Selecting this option opens a drop-down for pre-defined crop proportions.

• Choose the option Remove Crop to display the original asset.

Once a crop option is selected, use the blue handles to size the crop on the image.

Rotate Right

Use this option to rotate the image 90° to the right (clockwise).

Reset Zoom

If the image has already been zoomed, use this option to reset the zoom level.

Open Zoom Slider

Use this option to display a slider to control the zoom level of the image.

Inherit featured image from page - This option uses the featured image of the linked page or the featured image of the current page if the image is not linked.

Image asset - This is automatically populated if Inherit featured image from page is selected. Deselect to manually define the image by setting the following options.

• Drop an asset from the asset browser or tap the browse option so you can upload from a local file system.

• Tap or click Clear to de-select the currently selected image.

• Tap or click Pick to open the asset browser so you can select an image.

  • If Next Generation Dynamic Media features are enabled, you have multiple options for picking an asset:

    • Local selects from the local AEM asset library.
    • Remote selects from a Dynamic Media library outside of your AEM instance.

• Tap or click Edit to manage the renditions of the asset in the Asset Editor.

Alternative text for accessibility - This field allows you to define a description of the image for visually impaired users.

• Inherit alternative text from page - This option uses the alternative description of the linked asset value of the dc:description metadata in DAM or of the current page if no asset is linked.

Don’t provide an alternative text - Marks the image to be ignored by assistive technologies like screen readers for cases where the image is purely decorative or otherwise convey no additional information to the page.

Preset Type - This defines the types of image presets available, either Image Preset or Smart Crop, and is only available when Dynamic Media features are enabled.

• Image Preset - When Preset Type of Image Preset is selected, the drop-down Image Preset is available, allowing selection from the available Dynamic Media presets. This is only available if presets are defined for the selected asset.
• Smart Crop - When Preset Type of Smart Crop is selected, the drop-down Rendition is available, allowing selection from the available renditions of the selected asset. This is only available if renditions are defined for the selected asset.
• Image Modifiers - Additional Dynamic Media image serving commands can be defined here separated by &, regardless of which Preset Type is selected.

Caption - Additional information about the image, displayed below the image by default.

• Get caption from DAM - When checked the image’s caption text is populated with the value of the dc:title metadata in DAM.
• Display caption as pop-up - When checked, the caption is not displayed below the image, but as a pop-up displayed by some browsers when hovering over the image.

Link - Link the image to another resource.

• Use the selection dialog to link to another AEM resource.
• If not linking to an AEM resource, enter the absolute URL. Non-solute URLs are interpreted as relative to AEM.
• Open link in new tab - This option opens the link in a new browser window.

ID - This option lets you control the unique identifier of the component in the HTML and in the Data Layer.

• If left blank, a unique ID is automatically generated for you and can be found by inspecting the resulting page.
• If an ID is specified, it is the responsibility of the author to make sure that it is unique.
• Changing the ID can have an impact on CSS, JS, and Data Layer tracking.

Enable DM features - When checked, Dynamic Media features are available.

• This option only appears when Dynamic Media is enabled in the environment.

Enable Web Optimized Images - When checked, the web-optimized image delivery service delivers images in the WebP format, reducing image sizes on average by 25%.

• This option is only available in AEMaaCS.
• When unchecked, or the web-optimized image delivery service is unavailable, the Adaptive Image Servlet is used.

Disable lazy loading - When checked, the component preloads all images without lazy loading.

Image is decorative - Define if the decorative image option is automatically enabled when adding the image component to a page.

Get alternative text from DAM- Define if the option to retrieve the alternate text from the DAM is automatically enabled when adding the image component to a page.

Get caption from DAM - Define if the option to retrieve the caption from the DAM is automatically enabled when adding the image component to a page.

Display caption as pop-up - Define if the option to display the image caption as a pop-up is automatically enabled when adding the image component to a page.

Resize width - This value is used for resizing the width of the base images that are DAM assets.

• The aspect ratio of the images is preserved.
• If the value is larger than the actual width of the image, this value has no effect.
• This value has no effect on SVG images.

Widths - Defines a list of widths in pixels for the image and the component automatically loads the most appropriate width based on browser size.

• Tap or click the Add button to add another size.

  • Use the grab handles to rearrange size order.
  • Use the Delete icon to remove a width.

• By default images loading is deferred until they become visible.

  • Select the option Disable lazy loading so you can load the images upon page load.

JPEG Quality - The quality factor (in percentage from 0 and 100) for transformed (for example, scaled or cropped) JPEG images.