Assets Panel: Browse and Reuse the Images in Your Project

The Assets tab sits in the left rail, directly under Components — same tooltip, active state and click-to-toggle as the panels beside it.

What the Assets panel is

Opening the tab shows one section today, Images — not a place you bring files into ahead of time, but a live view of what your open project actually contains, built automatically from the layers on your pages.

The Images section

Every distinct image in use gets one tile: a thumbnail, its name, intrinsic width and height in pixels, file size, and a Used by N layers count. Use the same image as a fill on five layers and you still see one tile, not five — Figpea recognizes identical image data and lists it once, no matter how many places it appears, including inside a component master.

Three things you can do

• Click a tile to select every layer using that image on the canvas — the fastest way to answer "where is this actually used?" in a file someone handed you.
• Add to canvas drops a rectangle, filled with that image at its true pixel size, at the centre of your current view, already selected, as one undo step, reusing the same image data rather than a second copy.
• Add image… brings a picture in from your computer and places it the same way. If that exact file is already in the list, it joins the existing tile rather than creating a duplicate.

What the list does and doesn't include

The Images section covers every image used as a layer fill, including one that only appears inside a component master. Images stored in a PSD's pixel layers are not listed here yet. There's no unplaced or staging area — bringing an image in also places it — and no delete action of its own: an image leaves the list only when every layer using it is gone, because deleting the layers is what deletes the asset.

Privacy

Everything here happens in your browser. Adding an image reads it from disk and nothing is sent anywhere — see What We Collect for the full picture.

FAQ

Why is the Images section empty when I open a PSD?

Images stored in a PSD's pixel layers aren't listed here yet — the Images section only recognizes images used as a layer fill.

Can I download the original image files?

Not from this panel — there's no download button on a tile. Recovering an image's original bytes is a Pro export; see Exporting for how it works and Plans & Pro for what's free versus Pro.

Why can't I delete an image from the list?

The list isn't a store you manage directly — it's derived from what your layers use. Remove the layers that reference an image and its tile disappears with them.

Why did my new image get placed on the canvas instead of just added to the list?

There's no unplaced holding area here: the list always mirrors what your project actually uses, so bringing an image in is the same action as placing it.

I added the same file twice — why is there only one tile?

Figpea recognizes identical image data and reuses the existing tile, so adding the same file again just points another layer at the one you already have.

Where on the canvas does an added image land?

At the centre of whatever part of the canvas you're currently looking at, at the image's real pixel size — the view itself doesn't move.

Related docs

• Opening & Importing Files — getting a PSD, XD, Figma or SVG file open in the first place
• Basic Layer Operations — creating, selecting and placing layers on the canvas
• Exporting — getting a layer, page or image back out of your project
• Plans & Pro — what's free and what's Pro
• Opening an Adobe XD file? The Images section is richest there — images inside a .fig you open locally are listed too.