News Story Thumbnails

News stories use 3:2 aspect ratio thumbnails.

News stories can use photosets to display photography on the story, but they require a rectangular (3:2 aspect ratio) thumbnail that appears on listing pages. 

If you do not have photo editing software available to you, try one of these image editors.

Step 1: Create and upload custom thumbnail image

1. Only use text-free graphics and photos to communicate in images unless it is a logo or similar brand mark that is not trying to convey content. This ensures that the text can be resized, read by screen readers, and adapted to different user needs. For more on our specific guidelines, review the Web Accessibility help page.

2. Crop your thumbnail image to 600 x 400 pixels and save. We recommend .webp or .jpg for all photos and for graphics without a transparency. For graphics with transparency, we recommend .webp or .png. To simplify your upload process, save your image with a name using no spaces that is all lowercase.

3. In Cascade, navigate to the appropriate images folder and upload your image.

Step 2: Link the thumbnail photo to news story

1. Edit the news story.
2. In the Thumbnail Images section, select Use a custom thumbnail. Click Choose File to find the image you have already prepared and uploaded into the appropriate images folder.
3. To save, select Preview Draft and then Submit >> Check Content & Submit.

Don't have a quality photo?

If you do not have a high quality thumbnail image for the story you are working on, you can select one from our provided Thumbnail Library when building your News Story.