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title: "Set a Thumbnail for a Folder or Data Room"
lang: en
canonical_url: https://www.peony.ink/docs/features/branding/set-thumbnails
description: "Give a folder or data room its own cover image in Peony, and remove it to go back to the default look."
---

In grid view, every folder and data room shows a thumbnail. By default Peony generates it from what is inside. **Set Thumbnail** lets you replace it with your own image, so a room's folders read at a glance as a branded set (for example one image per section), and **Remove Thumbnail** puts it back.

## Set a Thumbnail

1. Open the data room in **grid view**.
2. Open the folder's menu: hover its top-right corner and click the **…** icon, or right-click the folder.
3. Choose **Set Thumbnail** and pick the image you want to show.

![A folder's menu in a data room with Set Thumbnail highlighted between Rename and Remove Thumbnail, over a grid of folders that already have their own thumbnails](https://www.peony.ink/docs/set-thumbnails/folder-menu-set-thumbnail.png)

The same menu (**Rename**, **Set Thumbnail**, **Remove Thumbnail**, **Move**, **Download**, **Duplicate**, **Delete**) is on a data room's card on your home screen, so a data room can have a thumbnail too.

## Remove a Thumbnail

Open the same menu and choose **Remove Thumbnail**. The folder or data room goes back to how it looked before you set one, with the default thumbnail.

## Common Questions

#### How do I set a thumbnail for a folder?

Open the folder's menu (hover its top-right corner and click the **…** icon, or right-click it) and choose **Set Thumbnail**.

#### How do I remove a thumbnail?

Open the same menu and choose **Remove Thumbnail**. The folder goes back to how it looked before you set one.

#### Does a thumbnail change what visitors can see inside?

No. A thumbnail is only the picture shown on the folder or data room card. The files, permissions and links are unchanged.

#### Can I set a thumbnail on a folder inside a data room, not only on the room?

Yes. The menu in the screenshot above is on a folder inside a data room.

## Related

- [Custom Branding](https://www.peony.ink/docs/features/branding/custom-branding)
- [Upload, move & organize files](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/upload-and-organize-files)

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