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# Gallery and backgrounds

The gallery collects what the AI made for you in chats. Your background is set in Settings, from a file on your device.

## What the gallery shows

The Gallery page, headed Media, has two parts.

- **Designs**: Every page, component, logo, diagram, animation or 3D design the AI wrote in your chats, with its version. *Open design* reopens it; the chat link jumps to where it was made. See [Design engine](https://zerolog.ch/docs/design-engine).
- **Other media**: Video, audio and other files a connector saved for you, with prompt, date and a download link. Filter by provider and kind. The list is empty if you have none.

Images you generate are not here. They live on the Images page, see [Image generation](https://zerolog.ch/docs/images).

## Backgrounds

Settings, Appearance, Background. It sits behind the workspace; text stays readable on its surfaces.

- **Type**: None, colour, gradient, one of six patterns, your own image, or an animated background (particles, gradient flow, matrix).
- **Own image**: PNG, JPG or WebP up to 3 MB. ZeroLog keeps one re-encoded copy per account, at most 2560 pixels wide, without location and camera data. *Remove image* deletes it from the server.
- **Blur and dim**: Two sliders soften and darken any background.
- **Plans**: Own images and animated backgrounds need Mini or above.

To use a picture you generated, download it from the Images page, then upload it here.

## Where your images, designs and background live

Mermaid source of the diagram on this page:

```mermaid
%% Gallery and backgrounds: where things live. Facts from the Gallery page, the Images page, Settings > Appearance, server/routes/ui-prefs.js.
flowchart TB
  subgraph IM["Images page"]
    gen["Images you generate<br/>stored 30 days"]
  end

  subgraph GA["Gallery page (Media)"]
    des["Designs the AI wrote<br/>pages, logos, components,<br/>diagrams, animations, 3D"]
    med["Other media from<br/>connectors: video, audio"]
  end

  dev["A picture file<br/>on your device"]

  subgraph ST["Settings, Appearance, Background"]
    bg["None, colour, gradient,<br/>pattern, animated, or your<br/>own image (PNG, JPG, WebP,<br/>up to 3 MB)"]:::hot
  end

  gen -->|Download| dev
  dev -->|upload, Mini and up| bg

  classDef hot stroke:#8f7ac9
```