# Upload files to IPFS

## 🏞️ Upload files to IPFS using the dashboard

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When creating a Smart Contract, the IPFS storage is automatically included.
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### **📑 1. Create a Smart Contract**

Deploy your NFT Smart Contract [ app.imintify.com/smart-contract](https://app.imintify.com/smart-contract).\
For more information, read the docs on how [create a Smart Contract](/smart-contract/create-nft-smart-contract.md).<br>

### **🏞️ 2. Upload NFT images to IPFS**

Once you have created your contract, go to the tab: **NFTs**<br>

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### **🆙 3. Start Uploading**

#### Choose **Single** or **Batch** **upload** to start uploading

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#### **💧 Drag and drop your image files**

Supported files .png .webp .gif .jpg .mp4 .csv or .json

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Note: Please upload a **folder** containing **all your NFT images** and **metadata file** for each NFT or a **single metadata file** containing all your NFT metadata.<br>
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### **👀 4. Preview**

Preview the uploaded NFT images and proceed.

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### 🕑  5. Reveal type

Choose how you want to reveal your NFTs to your collectors.

* **Reveal upon Mint:** Collectors will immediately see the final NFT image when they complete the minting.
* **Delayed Reveal:** Collectors will mint your placeholder image, and then you will reveal it at a later time.

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For delayed reveal, you need to set a password and don't lose this password. There is no recovery option.
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### **🚀 6. Finalize NFTs on the Blockchain**

Now, upload all the NFT images to the blockchain and sign the transaction to verify.

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It can take some time to upload all the images to the blockchain for large collections, such as 10k or large files.
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