Learn how to upload and crop your photos for maximum sales.
Photos of your menu items are crucial for attracting customers — a picture says a thousand words!
Customers often base their orders on the photos they see, therefore you should try to upload beautiful and closely cropped photos of your food (that accurately depict your meals) that will have your customers salivating. 🤤
me&u Image Specs
- Categories: 1164 x 456 px
- Menu items (food & drink): 800 x 800 px
Click here to view info on dimensions for your landing page image and social sharing image.
How to add and upload photos to your menu
- Go to Your Menu > Menu Items
- Click into the category where the item you'd like to add a photo to is located
- Find the item
- You can drag the image file onto the + on the menu item or click on the + to locate the image in your files
Cropping your images perfectly
The crop of your images is important. The me&u system will accept any JPG file you upload however it's up to you to make sure the photo looks great on your menu and will generate you strong sales. Phones are small, therefore images are small so you don't want the photo cropped too far away with space around the dish, making it look small.
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- Open the photo you want to crop
- Click, hold, and drag on the image to create a selection.
- You can then click, hold, and drag on any of the corner blue dots to resize the selection if needed. Tip: if you need to crop a perfect for menu item photos, you can hold down the Shift key while you hold and drag the corners.
- With your selection visible on the screen, hold down the “Command” key and hit the letter “K” to crop your selection so that it removes the rest of the image outside your selection. It should save automatically.
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1. Open the image, click on Edit & Create then select Edit from the drop-down:
2. From here you can crop the image by moving the corners in.
3. If you need to make a perfect square (for menu item images) click on aspect ratio on the right and then click Square.
4. When finished cropping, click the save a copy button and save the file to your computer.