diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/settingsPage.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/settingsPage.tsx
index ac68b36..6760208 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/settingsPage.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/settingsPage.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-import { ArrowDown, ArrowUp, LogOut, Plus, RefreshCw, Trash2 } from "lucide-react"
+import { ArrowDown, ArrowUp, ImageOff, ImagePlus, LogOut, Plus, RefreshCw, Trash2 } from "lucide-react"
 import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react"
 import FooterMenuEditor from "../components/FooterMenuEditor"
+import MediaPicker, { type MediaPickerItem } from "../components/MediaPicker"
 import { useApiFetch } from "../hooks/useApiFetch"
 import { useCurrentUserRole } from "../hooks/useCurrentUserRole"
 import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom"
@@ -68,6 +69,8 @@ export default function SettingsPage() {
   const [carouselSaved, setCarouselSaved] = useState<CarouselSlide[]>([])
   const [carouselSaving, setCarouselSaving] = useState(false)
   const [carouselMessage, setCarouselMessage] = useState<string | null>(null)
+  // Index of the slide whose image is being picked, or null when the modal is closed.
+  const [carouselPickerIndex, setCarouselPickerIndex] = useState<number | null>(null)
   const [mediaIndexRunning, setMediaIndexRunning] = useState(false)
   const [mediaIndexMessage, setMediaIndexMessage] = useState<string | null>(null)
   // Guards against two poll loops (mount-resume plus a click) racing each other.
@@ -222,6 +225,11 @@ export default function SettingsPage() {
     setCarouselSlides((current) => current.filter((_, idx) => idx !== index))
   }
 
+  function selectCarouselImage(item: MediaPickerItem) {
+    if (carouselPickerIndex !== null) updateCarouselSlide(carouselPickerIndex, { image_url: item.url })
+    setCarouselPickerIndex(null)
+  }
+
   async function saveHomepageCarousel() {
     const slides = carouselSlides.map((slide) => ({
       ...slide,
@@ -509,13 +517,47 @@ export default function SettingsPage() {
                     />
                   </div>
                   <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
-                    <label className="text-xs font-semibold text-muted-foreground uppercase tracking-wide">Image URL</label>
-                    <input
-                      value={slide.image_url}
-                      onChange={(e) => updateCarouselSlide(index, { image_url: e.target.value })}
-                      className="w-full px-3 py-2 rounded-lg border border-border bg-card text-sm focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-primary/40"
-                      placeholder="/images/banner.webp"
-                    />
+                    <label className="text-xs font-semibold text-muted-foreground uppercase tracking-wide">Image</label>
+                    <div className="flex items-start gap-3">
+                      {slide.image_url ? (
+                        <img
+                          src={slide.image_url}
+                          alt=""
+                          className="w-24 h-14 shrink-0 rounded-lg border border-border object-cover bg-muted/40"
+                        />
+                      ) : (
+                        <div className="w-24 h-14 shrink-0 rounded-lg border border-dashed border-border grid place-items-center text-muted-foreground">
+                          <ImageOff className="w-4 h-4" />
+                        </div>
+                      )}
+                      <div className="flex-1 flex flex-col gap-2">
+                        <input
+                          value={slide.image_url}
+                          onChange={(e) => updateCarouselSlide(index, { image_url: e.target.value })}
+                          className="w-full px-3 py-2 rounded-lg border border-border bg-card text-sm focus:outline-none focus:ring-2 focus:ring-primary/40"
+                          placeholder="Choose from the media library, or paste a URL"
+                        />
+                        <div className="flex items-center gap-2">
+                          <button
+                            type="button"
+                            onClick={() => setCarouselPickerIndex(index)}
+                            className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 px-2.5 py-1.5 rounded-lg border border-border text-xs text-foreground hover:bg-muted/40"
+                          >
+                            <ImagePlus className="w-3.5 h-3.5" />
+                            {slide.image_url ? "Replace image" : "Choose image"}
+                          </button>
+                          {slide.image_url && (
+                            <button
+                              type="button"
+                              onClick={() => updateCarouselSlide(index, { image_url: "" })}
+                              className="px-2.5 py-1.5 rounded-lg text-xs text-muted-foreground hover:text-destructive hover:bg-destructive/10"
+                            >
+                              Clear
+                            </button>
+                          )}
+                        </div>
+                      </div>
+                    </div>
                   </div>
                   <div className="grid grid-cols-1 sm:grid-cols-2 gap-3">
                     <div className="flex flex-col gap-2">
@@ -647,6 +689,14 @@ export default function SettingsPage() {
           </div>
         </div>
       )}
+
+      {carouselPickerIndex !== null && (
+        <MediaPicker
+          title="Choose carousel image"
+          onClose={() => setCarouselPickerIndex(null)}
+          onSelect={selectCarouselImage}
+        />
+      )}
     </div>
   )
 }
diff --git a/server/internal/database/homepage_carousel_settings.go b/server/internal/database/homepage_carousel_settings.go
index e3e3450..30d9809 100644
--- a/server/internal/database/homepage_carousel_settings.go
+++ b/server/internal/database/homepage_carousel_settings.go
@@ -11,6 +11,22 @@ import (
 
 const homepageCarouselSettingKey = "homepage_carousel"
 
+// Default slide images live on the media filesystem under a `scalene/` prefix
+// rather than in Scalene's bundled public/images. Bundled paths could not be
+// changed from the CMS -- editing the Podcast banner meant a Scalene commit and
+// redeploy -- which defeats the point of a CMS-editable carousel, and a rename
+// on the Scalene side silently broke the slide.
+//
+// The prefix sits under wp-content/uploads because that is the only tree Nginx
+// serves (see deploy/nginx/triangle-cms.conf); it is outside the YYYY/MM layout
+// so the media reindex and the legacy WP corpus stay visibly separate.
+//
+// That location is served with 30-day immutable caching, which assumes a
+// filename pins its bytes. To swap one of these banners, upload under a NEW
+// name and repoint the slide -- overwriting in place leaves the old image at
+// the edge for up to a month.
+const defaultCarouselImageBase = "https://delta.thetriangle.org/wp-content/uploads/scalene"
+
 var defaultHomepageCarouselSlides = []models.HomepageCarouselSlide{
 	{
 		Enabled:     true,
@@ -23,7 +39,7 @@ var defaultHomepageCarouselSlides = []models.HomepageCarouselSlide{
 		Enabled:         true,
 		Title:           "Podcast",
 		LinkURL:         "https://tr.ee/bqz8s-E4NK",
-		ImageURL:        "/images/PodcastBanner.webp",
+		ImageURL:        defaultCarouselImageBase + "/PodcastBanner.webp",
 		BackgroundColor: "#acd4f4",
 		TextColor:       "#ffffff",
 	},
@@ -31,7 +47,7 @@ var defaultHomepageCarouselSlides = []models.HomepageCarouselSlide{
 		Enabled:         true,
 		Title:           "Classifieds",
 		LinkURL:         "/classifieds",
-		ImageURL:        "/images/classifiedsBannerNew.webp",
+		ImageURL:        defaultCarouselImageBase + "/classifiedsBannerNew.webp",
 		BackgroundColor: "#E5E7EB",
 		TextColor:       "#ffffff",
 	},
@@ -39,7 +55,7 @@ var defaultHomepageCarouselSlides = []models.HomepageCarouselSlide{
 		Enabled:         true,
 		Title:           "Apply to The Triangle",
 		LinkURL:         "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScra_6sUenvmpIuQ5FjmMyWO0a2sz9z36HkrqfnYQvJGH9BGQ/viewform",
-		ImageURL:        "/images/applyBannerNew.webp",
+		ImageURL:        defaultCarouselImageBase + "/applyBannerNew.webp",
 		BackgroundColor: "#275997",
 		TextColor:       "#ffffff",
 	},