# Put a full-page picture or a spread in a scene

This page is for giving a picture whole pages in the middle of a scene: a full-page illustration, or one wide picture across two facing pages. The words around it stay where they are. In print the text fills the page it's on, the picture comes next, and the text picks up again after it, the way an illustrated novel does it.

### Add one

1. Click in the scene where the picture belongs, between two paragraphs.
2. Insert an image the usual way, and choose your picture.
3. Under **Placement**, choose **Full Page Next** or **Two-Page Spread**.
4. Click **Insert**.

![Screenshot: the Insert an image window with Full Page Next and Two-Page Spread](https://assets.authortools.net/help/screenshot-placeholder.png)
*Screenshot: the Placement card in the Insert an image window, with the second row (Full Page Next, Two-Page Spread) and the note under it.*

In the editor's page view the picture takes no room in your text, because in print it doesn't either. You'll see a small thumbnail in the margin beside the spot, tagged **Full page** or **Spread**. Click it to change or remove the picture. To see the pages as they'll print, open **Preview**.

### A full page

The picture gets a page to itself: the next page after the one your text is on when it reaches that spot. The page has no running head or page number, like any illustration plate. Tick **Runs to the edge** for a picture that bleeds off the sheet; leave it off to keep it inside the margins.

### A two-page spread

Upload the whole picture once, as wide as you like. Write cuts it down the middle, so the left half sits on a left-hand page and the right half on the right-hand page facing it. A spread always runs to the edges.

A spread has to start on a left-hand page, or the halves won't face each other. When the text reaches your picture with a right-hand page coming next, Write lets the text carry on through that page first, so the spread may sit a page later than the spot you chose. You'll never get a blank page out of it, except in the rare case of a single paragraph longer than a whole page.

Keep faces and words away from the middle of a spread picture. The binding swallows a little of it.

### In the ebook

An ebook has no pages to give, so a full page or a spread shows where it sits, the whole picture at the width of the screen, with its caption if it has one. In print the caption isn't used.

### If an AI is adding the picture

Through Write's connector, an AI writes the same thing as `![caption](image:<id> page)` or `![caption](image:<id> spread)`. See [How an AI writes formatting into your scenes](/link/42).