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Interactive Image turns a picture into something your audience explores for themselves. You upload an image, drop notes on the spots that matter, and each person taps those spots on their own phone to read at their own pace. It’s a self-paced content slide — no question, no timer, no score — so it stays up for as long as the room needs while you talk.
AhaSlides Interactive Image presented: road bike photo with numbered hotspots and a note on presenter and participant screens

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Interactive Image at a glance

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How to run Interactive Image

Place up to eight hotspots on an uploaded image. Each holds a short note — a heading and a line or two — and the markers are numbered, so you can set the order the eye should follow. When you present, every participant sees the full image on their phone and taps any marker to open its note, in any order and as often as they like. Visited hotspots look different from unvisited ones, and people can pinch to zoom on a busy image.
The AhaSlides slide type picker with the Interactive image tile highlighted
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Add the slide

In the editor, click New slide and pick Interactive Image from the slide type picker.
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Upload your image

Add one image — a diagram, map, product screenshot, or photo. It fills the slide, so pick something worth exploring.
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Drop your hotspots

Click anywhere on the image to add a hotspot, up to eight. Drag a marker to reposition it, or delete one to free a slot.
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Write each note

Give each hotspot a heading (up to 40 characters) and a note (up to 150 characters). Keep every note self-contained, since people read them in any order.
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Order the markers

Reorder the hotspots so the numbers trace the path you want across the image.
AhaSlides Interactive Image editor with four numbered hotspots on a road bike photo and the Hotspots panel highlighted

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Preview and present

Click Preview in the top header to check the presenter and participant views first. When you present, the image fills the main screen with markers readable from the back of the room. Opening a note on the big screen doesn’t control anyone’s phone — everyone keeps reading at their own speed.

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Ideas for using Interactive Image

Interactive Image fits any moment where a picture carries the detail and you want the room to explore it, not vote on it.

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Education

  • Diagrams and anatomy — label the parts of a system and let students tap each one to read how it works.
  • Maps and timelines — pin context to places or dates for self-paced study.

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Training and workshops

  • Process walkthroughs — mark each step of a workflow or safety layout on a single image.
  • Product tours — annotate a screenshot so trainees explore the interface at their own pace.

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Meetings and events

  • Org charts or floor plans — let people tap around to find what’s relevant to them.
  • Rich visuals — turn a dense infographic into something the room can read on their own devices.

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Interactive Image vs. Pin on Image

Both build on an image, but they’re opposite tools. With Pin on Image the audience drops pins to answer and you get a live heatmap. With Interactive Image you place the pins and the audience taps to read — it delivers information rather than collecting it. Have a question? Contact our support team — if you’re logged in, use the chat bubble in the bottom-right of your dashboard; otherwise contact us here or email hi@ahaslides.com. Want to connect with other users? Join the AhaSlides community to share tips, request features, and see how others engage their audiences.