 Welcome to Learn WordPress. In this short video, we will get an overview of managing our media settings. If you visit the media library, you are able to view and filter through all your media items. But do you know how WordPress stores images? Well, to gain a deeper understanding of that, we need to make our way to settings and then click on media. When you upload an image to WordPress, it saves four versions of the media item. It saves the original version and also creates three other copies, namely the thumbnail, medium and large image sizes. That means you will end up with four images for every one that you upload. WordPress therefore automatically generates various resizes for you to use. You can of course change these settings if you please. So for example, you may decide to change the thumbnail size to 160 by 160. Below that, you will see the box is ticked that says crop thumbnail to exact dimensions and in brackets it says normally thumbnails are proportional. WordPress is very clever and will crop images for thumbnails if they do not fit into the dimensions set here. Let's see how you can choose between these sizes when you create a page or post. On this page, I have added the same image three times using different sizes. Firstly, we have the thumbnail which is 150 by 150 pixels and will always be a square. The medium size image which is 300 by 200 and then the large sized image which in this case is 1024 by 683. Please take note for medium size images and large size images it won't size to exactly 300 by 300 and 1024 by 1024. These are maximum height set meaning images won't be larger than these settings and will maintain the aspect ratios. And one more thing, you will notice you also have the option to select full size if you wanted to. Let's look at one more example to check out the resizes of another image. The thumbnail which will be exactly 150 by 150, the medium size image 300 by 240 and the large size image in this case 1024 by 819. The last option under media settings allows you to choose how media will be filed in your sites uploads folder in the back end. WordPress will by default save your media in folders according to month and year. And if you deselect this option, all images may end up in one folder. The default image sizes created by WordPress will be suitable for most users. But if you have specific preferences or design needs, you can as mentioned alter these sizes to meet your requirements. Visit Learn WordPress for more tutorials and training material.