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The Images library

The Images tab holds your store’s pictures — the ones CataSEO generated for you and the ones you uploaded through CataSEO. You can create a new picture here, add it to a product, and use any of them in a blog post.

This is a different feature from image alt text, which is written as part of product optimization. See Generate image alt text for that.

Where the Images tab is

Images is in the menu bar at the top of CataSEO, after Blog.

It appears on BigCommerce, Shopify and WooCommerce stores. Wix stores don’t have an Images tab — CataSEO doesn’t keep an image library for a Wix site.

What the grid shows

Every picture CataSEO created or you uploaded through CataSEO, newest first. Pictures that were already in your platform’s own file library aren’t listed here — they’re offered as a starting point when you create a new one, on platforms whose library CataSEO can read.

Each tile shows the picture and its alt text, or “(no alt text)” if it hasn’t got any, and is marked Used on a post when it appears on one of your blog posts.

Search images searches filenames and alt text.

Click a picture to open it full size. The panel there shows its alt text, when it was added, its source — Created with CataSEO or Uploaded — and whether it’s used on a post. Copy URL copies the picture’s address, which is how you put it somewhere CataSEO doesn’t reach.

Upload your own pictures

Click Upload and pick one or more files. PNG and JPEG only, up to 20MB each. A picture wider or taller than 1800 pixels is resized down to fit when it’s stored.

A newly uploaded picture can take a moment to appear while your platform finishes processing it.

Create a picture

Click Create image. CataSEO asks how you’d like to start:

Then set:

Click Generate. Generate again produces another version; Keep adds the one you like to your store’s files.

What generation does and doesn’t draw

CataSEO generates the setting, not the product. When you start from one of your photos, your product is kept exactly as you photographed it and only the scene and lighting around it are generated. The screen says so: “CataSEO generates the setting, not the product itself.”

A picture CataSEO generates is checked before you see it, and a generation that would have drawn the item your shopper is buying is rejected rather than shown.

The image generator also sometimes declines a description outright. CataSEO says “The image generator would not draw that” and you can describe it differently.

What it costs

Creating a picture uses 1 express token for the first generation in a session, and every Generate again in that same session is free. Closing the window and opening Create image again starts a new session, so the next first generation is charged again.

The same rule applies inside a blog post: the first picture generated for a post costs 1 express token, and retries on that post are free.

Nothing is charged for a generation that fails, and nothing is charged for uploading your own pictures.

Alt text comes with it

CataSEO writes alt text for a picture as it generates it, at no extra charge, and that text comes with the picture when you keep it. You can see it in the lightbox panel and under each tile.

Add a picture to a product

Tick Also add to this product while generating from one of your products, and the picture goes onto that product’s page in your store as well as into your library.

If the picture lands in your library but adding it to the product fails, CataSEO tells you and you can press Keep again to retry.

Where your pictures are stored

Either way the picture is reachable from your storefront, and Copy URL gives you its address.

Delete a picture

Open the picture and click Delete. Two rules:

FAQ

Why don’t I have an Images tab? Wix stores don’t get one: CataSEO doesn’t keep an image library for a Wix site, so there’d be nothing to show. BigCommerce, Shopify and WooCommerce stores all have the tab. Everything else CataSEO does on Wix, including writing blog posts, is unaffected.

How much does creating a picture cost? One express token for the first generation in a session. Generate again within that session is free, so you can try several versions for the one token. Uploading your own pictures is free.

Why does the generated picture show my product differently than I expected? CataSEO generates the setting around your product, not the product itself. When you start from one of your own photos, the product in that photo is kept as it is and the scene around it changes. A generation that would have drawn the product itself is rejected.

Can I use these pictures in a blog post? Yes. The blog wizard’s picture step offers your library, your product photos, an upload, and generating a new picture. See Write a blog post with AI.

Where do the pictures actually live? On Shopify, in your own Content > Files — that’s your library, and a picture CataSEO makes belongs in it. On BigCommerce and WooCommerce, CataSEO hosts them itself, at a permanent public address your storefront links to.

Why can’t I delete this picture? Either it’s still used on one of your blog posts — remove it from the post first — or it isn’t something CataSEO created or you uploaded through CataSEO, in which case CataSEO won’t touch it. Delete those from your platform’s own file manager.

I uploaded a picture and it isn’t in the grid. Give it a moment. The picture is uploaded immediately, but your platform may still be processing it, and the tile appears when that finishes. PNG and JPEG are the only formats accepted, up to 20MB.

Does this write alt text onto my product images? No. Alt text on your existing product photos is written as part of product optimization — see Generate image alt text. The Images library writes alt text for the pictures it creates.