Added the below to the umbraco settings file in the content section

<imaging>
    <!-- what file extension that should cause Umbraco to create thumbnails -->
    <imageFileTypes>jpeg,jpg,gif,bmp,png,tiff,tif,svg</imageFileTypes>
    <!-- what attributes that are allowed in the editor on an img tag -->
    <!--<allowedAttributes>alt,border,class,style,align,id,name,onclick,usemap</allowedAttributes>-->
    <!-- automatically updates dimension, file size and extension attributes on upload -->
    <!--
    <autoFillImageProperties>
        <uploadField alias="umbracoFile">
            <widthFieldAlias>umbracoWidth</widthFieldAlias>
            <heightFieldAlias>umbracoHeight</heightFieldAlias>
            <lengthFieldAlias>umbracoBytes</lengthFieldAlias>
            <extensionFieldAlias>umbracoExtension</extensionFieldAlias>
        </uploadField>
    </autoFillImageProperties>
    -->
</imaging>