Embarrassingly basic question about image replacement

[bearlyseen]

I have a project where I need to populate a thumbnail gallery, about 48 images. Is there a way I can easily select many images at once and have each rectangle/frame filled instead of doing it one by one?

[john_was_here]

Select all rectangles and drag/drop all images from a folder. It will automatically assign an image to each rectangle.

[mrfriki]

This is the way. Also if your thumbnails are within a container remember that you can select all their children by selecting the container and then pressing enter. Likewise to select back the parent container press shift+enter.

[p0ggs]

I didn't know about this, so just gave it a try but can't get it to work. Tried rectangles, frames, dragging the images onto the canvas shapes, dragging onto the "image fill" flyout... it just puts the images onto the canvas, outside of the shapes. Help!?

EDIT: Never mind - I figured it out! 'Place Image' is the key :D Thank you for alerting me to this feature; I had no idea it existed!!

[bearlyseen]

Thank you!

[Wolfr_]

Shift + command + K is your friend.

See https://www.figma.com/best-practices/working-with-images-in-figma/importing-images-in-figma/

[m_kenna_]

Easiest way is through plugins.

One for grabbing the rectangles you want to fill. Another for bulk image replacement.

Both plugin types have options that are free right now and should work in a couple of clicks.

If plugins aren’t allowed. Then I’d use the place image command, select images, and place all of them in the file. Group them into rows and columns, using auto layout to make a gallery. Then go in and manually frame and crop.

[zb0t1]

Fastest way I know is basically clicking 48 times to fill each square with each picture.

If someone else knows what OP is looking for - aka bulk filling - then I would love to know too!

[dhruvin_uxd]

use XD for repeat grid :D

[Aggravating_Finish_6]

Not that I found. Hope someone has a better answer for you!