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bear
Apr 22, 2021 8:49 PM UTC

Alignment Options in Image Fills

As I was looking for a way to do this natively in Figma, I came across this concept article on Medium. In the article, Андрей Насонов (Andrey Nasonov) describes adding the option to choose alignment in the image settings beyond the default centered. This would be a simple but huge improvement to image settings, especially for responsive design.

Here’s his example of how that might look on the Properties Panel for images:

If anyone has found any way to work around this other than individually cropping images for different container widths, pls hmu! 🙏

60 replies

Valentin7
Feb 22, 2024 11:01 AM UTC

+1 Yes, that can be a simple and useful option.

Ilya_Danilov-Nitusov
Feb 24, 2024 4:23 PM UTC

This suggestion is perfectly presented and is a feature that is sorely missed.

Figmate
Feb 27, 2024 7:40 AM UTC

Hi there, Thank you for sharing your thoughts on image fill properties. I completely understand how helpful this feature would be!
I have shared your feedback internally for future consideration. Your input is truly valuable to us, so please feel free to vote!

Thanks,

Jack_Reeves
New Participant
Mar 29, 2024 10:38 AM UTC

Just posting to show my annoyance. 3 years and still no movement on this simple request

Kory_Gabriel
Apr 1, 2024 5:10 PM UTC

Bumping this up as a feature I would love to see. Running into a situation right now that this would easily solve!

Jack_Reeves
New Participant
Apr 3, 2024 12:15 PM UTC

I face it daily. Working across multiple sizes i have to resort to crop…which then manipulates the image and allows for incorrect scaling which may be missed in dev>production. Seems so simple…would love someone explain why this is not a priority?

Rafastesia
Apr 18, 2024 2:02 PM UTC

Sorry, but this has to be revived. This need appears again and again and again. It is incredible how Figma has such complex features and this basic one is forgotten.

Michael_Thomson
New Member
May 1, 2024 2:01 PM UTC

I can’t believe this hasn’t been resolved yet. I have a component which could be eight variants but because this simple solution hasn’t been looked at, I have to have 50 variants to manually manage the width. 🥵

Gabor-WHQ
New Member
May 1, 2024 3:40 PM UTC

This feature is a must for creating powerful and responsive design systems. I’m continuously baffled that Figma users have to wait for something so integral to our work, especially considering that imagery is a good portion of our design.

The following hacks/plugins from the community are at least a great workaround for responsive image ratios that work well with fill+fit style imagery. The ability to set image crops that do not warp your images when swapping image ratios would be next level.

Image ratio hack from Vitalii

Image ratio plugin from Area17

Jack_Reeves
New Participant
Jun 5, 2024 4:51 PM UTC

3 years and still no movement or official response. Time to move to penpot everyone…no ones home at Figma