I am going through Figma Basics and in point 3. Components, there is instruction to override images and text to make it look like example on the right side. The thing is that instruction doesn’t specify on how to replace images in component instance with image that is already in the file. Am I missi…

Nice, now it works. Thank you for your help. Just to clarify for people that will see it in the future. You must click on fill image you want to copy - not for the layer containing image, than ctrl + c or cmd + c, the click on image you want to replace and ctrl + v or cmd + v.

Figma Basics - How to override image in instance

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Gleb February 17, 2021, 9:41am 4

Ah, for the ones that are in the file you can copy/paste the fill of the layer.

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