8.0 Release Notes

This release is focused entirely on our new Asset Library, where you can manage images from across your website. Now, you can reuse photos in multiple locations or make alternate versions. Need a different size or a different crop? Want to add a frame or a filter? Now you can do it within Spark. And that's just the beginning. Let's take a look...

Asset Library

Spark Location: Tools > Asset Library

You can load new images (assets) to the library - plus, all of the images you've previously loaded on your site are now manageable from this location.

Image Editor

The image editor offers tools never before available within Spark! This editor is accessible from the Asset Library, as well as from any location throughout Spark where you can add images.

• Crop - including rotate and flip options
• Resize - gives you pixel-specific control with the option to lock the aspect ratio
• Finetune - includes Brightness, Contrast, Exposure, Temperature, Gamma, and Clarity
• Filter - more that a dozen unique styling adjustments
• Annotate - you can draw, type, or add shapes on an image
• Frame - select custom image borders
• Redact - blur any image features which you don't want to be recognizable

Key Details

When the Asset Library was released, images already placed in multiple locations on your site were included as individual images in the library. So you may see some duplicates.

• You can reuse photos in multiple locations throughout your site. When adding an image, you'll have the option of selecting from the library or uploading a new asset.
• When editing an image from the library, you have the option to save your changes to the original image or you can save your changes as a new image.
• Any changes you make to an image from a specific site location (rather than from the library ) will be saved as a new image. The original image will not be modified.
• When reusing an image previously loaded into the library, you have the option to use the original image's metadata (title, caption, alternate text), or you can customize it for the new location.
• All instances of an image which use the original metadata will be updated if the metadata is modified from the library.