# Image Adornments

Images may be inserted into the background of a map view as image adornments. Like all adornments, image adornments do not appear in any other view and don't affect the hierarchy or the links of any notes. Adornments are never exported.

To create an image adornment, drag an image file into a map.

Images are inserted and displayed at 'actual size'. Resizing the adornment will crop the image. If a shape is set for the adornment, the image is cropped by the shape's boundaries.

The $Opacity attribute is supported for image attributes, allowing image adornments to be translucent.