Is it possible to SCALE a pasted image in Jupyter Notebook? There is no proper way to specify the size of an image in Markdown syntax. The width and height (and other) image attributes are enabled in the link_attributes extension (not enabled for markdown_github, so they are dropped). However, you can change the size of the rendered image by adding a bit more syntax to the image tag: If I want to change the size of the image, I need to remove the attachment, resize the image file with an editor and upload it again. [](./cat.gif =100x200) image support to VS Code's built-in markdown preview Installation Launch VS Code Quick Open ( Ctrl+P ), paste the following command, and press enter. Adds ! I am however unable to scale them. I love the "attach image" functionality from PR #621. I tried varius solutions from this question: Changing image size in Markdown. There is no way to change the size of an image if the markdown format is of the form - so stop looking right now! Changing image size in Markdown. However, currently I need to manually adjust the size of the image before I attach it to get a proper rendering (appropriate width). When the image is rendered, it is rendered as the actual size of the image. 0. ! However there are 2 workarounds: Resize your image yourself or let Google do it for you (that's what I do when importing from Google+ and specifying a max size)