Photo gallery
Albums of photos on your site as a grid, masonry, portfolio rows, a slider or a featured strip, with a full-screen viewer.
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The Photo gallery app puts albums of your photos on your website: your work, your food, your space. When you switch it on you get a first album (Portfolio for photographers, artists and tattoo studios, Highlights for everyone else). Photos you already gave Chip during the interview are added to it automatically, apart from your logo.
Adding photos
Photos for your gallery come from your Files. There is no upload straight from your phone or computer here.
- Open Photos, videos and files and add your pictures there first (the gallery page has a button that takes you to it).
- Go back to Photo gallery → Photos, pick an album and tap Choose photos from Files.
- Tick the photos you want and tap Add. They are added in the background, one at a time, and a progress bar shows "Adding 3 of 7 photos…". You can leave the page or close the tab and come back: the bar is still there until you dismiss it. If some can't be added, it says which and why.
- Photos you gave Chip during the interview are already in your Files.
- JPEG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos are accepted, up to the same photo size limit as everywhere else (5 MB each, normally) and 500 photos per website. HEIC photos are converted for you. GIFs aren't supported.
- Only one batch runs at a time. If you start another while photos are still being added, you'll be asked to wait for them to finish.
- Your original stays in Files. For privacy, location and camera details are removed from the copy that goes in the gallery.
Your privacy
Every photo is re-saved before it goes on your website. Hidden details such as GPS location, camera model and serial number are removed, and the photo is turned the right way up. Visitors only ever get these cleaned copies, in several sizes so phones download small files and big screens get sharp ones.
Captions, alt text and order
- Tap Edit on a photo to add a caption and alt text (a short description for people using screen readers). Alt text is suggested from the caption or file name and marked suggested until you check it.
- ★ Featured photos come first in album covers and appear in featured strips.
- Change the order with ↑ ↓, by dragging the ⠿ handle, or by focusing the handle and using the arrow keys.
- Move a photo to another album from its Edit panel, or delete it there.
Albums
On the Albums page you can rename albums, add a description, choose the cover, change their order and hide an album. Hidden albums (and their photos) can't be seen on your website, but you can keep working on them. Deleting an album deletes its photos.
Layouts and placing it
Choose a default layout in Settings: grid (even squares), masonry (natural shapes), justified rows (portfolio style), carousel (a slider) or featured strip (one scrolling row). With several albums your site shows the album covers first (you can turn this off). Tapping a photo opens a full-screen viewer with swipe, arrow keys, captions and a counter.
Ask Chip to add the gallery to my site, or tell Chip how you want it laid out. Each placement can choose its own album, layout, columns and number of photos, for example a strip of featured photos on the home page that links to the full gallery. The gallery fits any column, including a narrow sidebar, and works on phones, tablets and desktops.
Changes show on your website immediately, with no rebuild or need to update your live site. The AI Agent also knows your album names and captions, so it can point visitors to the right photos.