Media gallery is one of the most unique types of professional survey questions that you can
find! There are almost no other survey tools offering this feature, with such an easy-to-use design.
If you are a graphic designer, illustrator or product designer, and need to get feedback about
your awesome creations, this feature will be your best friend. But Media Gallery
can also come in handy for retailers, webshop owners, and product researchers and marketers,
who need to get people’s opinions by showing them pictures of their products. With media gallery you can simply type a question, and then upload several pictures as answers. Uploaded pictures will
be beautifully presented to survey participants on desktop computers, tablets and smartphones,
and with a simple click or touch on the images participants can select the choice they
desire.
By using images as answers, you can ask ask visual questions that leave a lasting impression
about you and your brand.
Now just imagine that you can combine this feature with the possibility to add images to
questions. If you haven’t already read about it, make sure to read this article.
How to add pictures to questions
The example below shows an online IQ test, which uses pictures for both the question and the
answers. This question was made using our media galleryquestion type. Without an easy way
of adding images to your online questionnsiare, asking such creative questions would be
impossible.
This example shows an online IQ test, which uses pictures both in the question and answers.
This question is made by our media gallery question type.
When you drag a media gallery question type into your survey, you will see a sample
question, along with three images. This is to show you how such a question would look in a real online
survey. However, as soon as you click on the question to edit it, you’ll notice that the preview image
choices disappear and an upload button takes their place. Go ahead and click on the upload button to add images to your question. The great thing is that you can easily add several images at once,
and let the system take care of uploading all of them for you.
Tip:
After uploading is completed, you can easily drag and drop images to reorder and organize them
as you wish. So, don’t waste time uploading images one by one. Grab a bunch of them, and
organize them later on, in peace.
Any picture that you upload will appear as a square image in the image placeholders. This means if you
have a very wide or very tall image, the system will have to crop a portion of your image to be able
to fit it inside the preview placeholder. Keep in mind that only the central part of the image will
be visible.
Note:
This can be extra important for you who care about the details of your survey design. If you
want a nicely cropped image, you may have to make it with image editing programs, before
uploading it.
However, your participants always have the possibility of seeing your images uncropped. When they click
on the magnifying glass button on an image, a so-called lightbox will open, where they can preview the
image in full size with all details. Tip: If you have several large-sized images, you don’t need to
bother resizing them before uploading. Our smart system will automatically shrink the image to a suitable
size, before upload starts. This saves you a lot of bandwidth and precious time. Your original images
will, of course, remain untouched on your local disk. By default, respondents are not limited and can
select several images per question. However, as a survey creator using media gallery, you
can allow single or multiple image selections. You do this by toggling “Allow multiple selection”
in the media gallery’s settings panel.