If you've got a floor plan, render, mood image, supplier photo, or any other visual you want to land on a page, this article covers every way to get it onto the canvas.
How to add an image
There are four places you can pull an image from: your computer, your Image Library, your Product Library, or Pinterest. You can also drag-and-drop a file onto the canvas, or paste an image straight from your clipboard.
To open the image source menu, press I or click Add → Image in the Command Bar at the bottom of the editor.
How to add an image from your computer
Press I (or click Add → Image) → choose Upload from computer.
Pick the file from your file browser.
Position and resize on the canvas.
You can also drag a file straight from your file browser onto the canvas — it'll upload and place where you dropped it.
How to paste an image from your clipboard
You can paste an image copied from any source — a screenshot, a Google Images result, an image from another app — directly onto the canvas.
Copy an image to your clipboard from any source.
In your presentation, press Cmd + V (Mac) / Ctrl + V (Windows).
The image lands on the canvas where you can position and resize it.
How to add an image from your Image Library
The Image Library is your project or studio's collection of saved images.
Press I (or click Add → Image) → choose Image Library.
Browse or search the library. You can multi-select to add several at once.
Place on the canvas.
How to add images from Pinterest
You can paste a Pinterest board URL and Programa will save copies of the images you choose into your presentation.
Press I (or click Add → Image) → choose Pinterest.
Paste the URL of the Pinterest board you want to pick images from.
Choose the images you want to import.
Place on the canvas.
📌 Note - Once you've imported a Pinterest image, it's saved into your presentation. If the original pin changes on Pinterest later, your version won't change with it.
How to add a product photo from your Product Library
Your Product Library contains the products your studio has saved or added across projects. You can pull product photos from it as plain images — but this is not the same as pinning a product from your schedule.
How to place a product library image
Press I (or click Add → Image) → choose Product Library.
Browse or search the library. You can multi-select to add several at once.
Place on the canvas like any other image.
What's the difference between a product image and a product pin?
This is the most-asked question about Presentations, so it's worth understanding clearly.
A product image (added via Add → Image → Product Library)
The product's photo, placed like any other image.
Not connected to your schedule.
Doesn't carry product details — there's nothing for the client to click.
Won't update if you change the product later.
Best for: mood boards, decorative or indicative imagery.
A product pin (added via Pin product, or press P)
A small blue dot placed on top of an image.
Connected to the real product in your schedule.
Shows full product details when clicked (name, code, supplier, finish, status, price).
Updates automatically whenever you change the product.
Best for: specifying real products on floor plans, renders, or elevations.
Why does it work this way? Your schedule is the official list of products you've specified for the project — the ones on your purchase orders, your invoices, and your client's bill. A pinned product is one of those: a real, specified product. A product library image is just a picture. Keeping the two separate means your client can only approve products that are actually on your schedule, rather than (say) a stock photo you used on a mood board.
💡 Tip — if you want to indicate a direction (e.g. "we're considering this style of armchair"), use a Product Library image. When you've actually specified the exact product, pin it.
How to import a PDF
You can import a PDF into a presentation and pick which pages you want to bring in. Each page you select becomes its own page in your presentation, at the PDF's original quality.
Click Add → PDF (or drag the PDF onto the canvas).
Programa opens a page picker showing every page of the PDF as a thumbnail.
Click the pages you want to import — single-click to select, click again to deselect.
Click Import.
Each page you selected lands as a new page in your presentation, in order.
What you can use PDF imports for
Bringing in floor plans exported from CAD or SketchUp.
Importing a builder's existing documentation pack to mark up.
Adding a brand brochure as reference inside a concept presentation.
PDF resolution
Programa imports each page at the best quality it can. Long PDFs or PDFs with lots of detail can take a few seconds to import — that's normal.
File limits and supported formats
50 MB maximum per upload.
Supported formats: PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG, WebP, HEIC.
HEIC files auto-convert to JPG on upload (takes a few seconds).
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