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Picture poll maker

When the choice is easier to see than to describe — logos, photos, designs, venues — upload the pictures and let people vote on the images themselves.

Create a picture poll Try the picture demo

How to create a picture poll

  1. Open the poll creator and choose Pictures as the question type.
  2. Select + Add pictures and pick several images at once, or drag and drop them onto the picture list. They are added in the order you chose.
  3. Give every picture a short caption. Captions are required, because they are what screen-reader users hear and what everyone sees next to the vote count.
  4. Drag the pictures into the order you want, remove any you don’t need, and select a thumbnail to check it at a larger size.
  5. Decide whether participants pick one picture or may choose several, set who can see the results, and select Create poll.

A picture question needs at least two pictures and can have up to 100, or up to 200 when you create the poll while logged in.

What participants see

  • A grid of your pictures, each numbered (01, 02, 03 …) with its caption underneath, so people can refer to “number 4” in a chat or a meeting.
  • Tap or click a picture to select it. A separate View larger image button opens it full size without changing the vote.
  • It works on phones as well as on larger screens, and the whole ballot can be used with a keyboard.

Reading the results

Results list every picture with its thumbnail, its number of votes and its share of the total. Each picture also shows its place — #1, #2 and so on — and pictures with the same number of votes share a place.

You choose who can see the results: only you, people who have already voted, or everyone. Results update while the poll is open, and you can export them as a CSV file from the manage page.

Preparing your pictures

  • Use pictures of a similar shape. Each one is shown whole in a 4:3 frame, so landscape photos fill it and portrait or square ones get a plain border.
  • You don’t need to shrink large photos first: anything over 1600 pixels is resized for you.
  • Check what is visible in each picture. Hidden photo data such as location is removed, but anything you can see in the picture is shown to participants.
  • Keep captions short and distinct, so people can tell options apart in the results and in conversation — the numbers help too.
  • At an event, put the QR code on screen and read out the picture numbers while people vote.

When pictures work better than text

  • Design choices — logo drafts, colour schemes, a poster or a website layout.
  • Photos — the best shot from an event, a team photo, or a photo contest among friends.
  • Things to pick together — a venue, a dish for the menu, a cake or a gift.
  • Events and classrooms — show the QR code on screen and let the room vote from their phones.

If your options are mostly words or short phrases, a regular multiple-choice poll is quicker to set up and easier to scan.

Pictures in other question types

  • Ranking — participants put pictures in their preferred order instead of choosing just one (see ranking poll).
  • Rating — each item to rate can carry a picture, scored on a 0–10 scale.
  • Quiz / Test — a Pictures question can have a correct answer and points, for example “Which of these is the Eiffel Tower?” (see the quiz maker).
  • Multi-question polls — a picture question can sit alongside other question types in one poll or survey.

Picture privacy and limits

  • Upload PNG, JPEG or WebP files of up to 50 MB each. Animated GIFs and SVG files are not accepted.
  • Every picture is resized to at most 1600 pixels on its longest side and re-saved as a new image. Hidden photo data such as camera details or location is not kept.
  • A poll can hold up to 50 pictures in total across all of its questions without an account, 100 with an account, or 200 with Premium.
  • Pictures are only shown to people who can open the poll. If you protect the poll with a password, its pictures need the same password, and deleted polls’ pictures are no longer shown to anyone.
  • Only upload pictures you have the right to share — see the terms.