{
  "@type": "help_guide",
  "id": "image-library",
  "title": "Image library",
  "kind": "feature",
  "summary": "The image library lets articles and social posts use the client's real photos instead of generated images. Nexus reads a Drive folder, tags every photo (what it shows, its style and quality, which pillar and persona it fits), and offers the best match for each piece.",
  "aliases": [
    "image library",
    "photo library",
    "client photos",
    "drive photo folder",
    "use our own photos",
    "connect the photo folder",
    "set up the image library"
  ],
  "engine": "content",
  "agents": [],
  "related": [
    {
      "id": "brand-identity",
      "page": "https://nexus.effiqs.com/help/brand-identity"
    },
    {
      "id": "content-production",
      "page": "https://nexus.effiqs.com/help/content-production"
    }
  ],
  "reviewed": "2026-10-15",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "What it does",
      "key": "what-it-does",
      "markdown": "The image library lets articles and social posts use the client's real photos instead of generated images. Nexus reads a Drive folder, tags every photo (what it shows, its style and quality, which pillar and persona it fits), and offers the best match for each piece."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Set it up",
      "key": "set-it-up",
      "markdown": "1. ✋ Share the client's Drive photo folder with the Google account your Nexus team gave you as **Viewer**. A curated folder of the best shots works better than a raw shoot.\n2. **\"Connect this folder to the image library: [Drive folder link].\"**\n3. A folder with more than 200 images asks first, and offers to keep one photo per shot (bursts of near-identical frames). Reply **\"one per shot\"** or **\"all\"**.\n4. Tagging takes a few minutes. **\"Open the image library.\"** shows every photo with its tags."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Check and curate",
      "key": "check-and-curate",
      "markdown": "- Fix a tag or hide a photo on the image library page, or in Slack: **\"Hide the image IMG_0412 from the library.\"**\n- Replace the folder: \"Use this folder instead: [link].\" Photos from the old folder leave the library; their history is kept.\n- Added photos to the folder? **\"Reindex the image library.\"** reads it again and tags the new ones."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Use it",
      "key": "use-it",
      "markdown": "- For a blog's hero image, Nexus uses a library photo on its own only when it's a strong match. Otherwise it suggests photos: **\"Suggest a photo from the library for [title].\"**\n- Pin one yourself: **\"Use the library photo IMG_0412 as the hero image of [title].\"**\n- Find photos: **\"Find photos of our warehouse team.\"**\n\nA client's photo is never altered by AI; it's only cropped to the image size."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Troubleshooting",
      "key": "troubleshooting",
      "markdown": "- **The message says \"Nexus can't read the folder.\"** It isn't shared with the Google account your Nexus team gave you, or it's shared with a different account. Share it and connect again.\n- **No photos come up for a topic.** The tags don't match: check them on the library page."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Prompts",
      "key": "prompts",
      "markdown": "- \"Connect this folder to the image library: [Drive folder link].\"\n- \"one per shot\"\n- \"all\"\n- \"Open the image library.\"\n- \"Reindex the image library.\"\n- \"Hide the image IMG_0412 from the library.\"\n- \"Suggest a photo from the library for [title].\"\n- \"Use the library photo IMG_0412 as the hero image of [title].\"\n- \"Find photos of our warehouse team.\""
    }
  ],
  "prompts": [
    {
      "text": "Connect this folder to the image library: [Drive folder link].",
      "tool": "connect_client_image_folder"
    },
    {
      "text": "one per shot",
      "tool": null
    },
    {
      "text": "all",
      "tool": null
    },
    {
      "text": "Open the image library.",
      "tool": "open_image_library_dashboard"
    },
    {
      "text": "Reindex the image library.",
      "tool": "index_client_images"
    },
    {
      "text": "Hide the image IMG_0412 from the library.",
      "tool": "update_client_image"
    },
    {
      "text": "Suggest a photo from the library for [title].",
      "tool": "suggest_client_photo_for_content"
    },
    {
      "text": "Use the library photo IMG_0412 as the hero image of [title].",
      "tool": "set_content_image"
    },
    {
      "text": "Find photos of our warehouse team.",
      "tool": "search_client_images"
    }
  ],
  "page": "https://nexus.effiqs.com/help/image-library",
  "markdown": "https://nexus.effiqs.com/help/image-library.md"
}