Set the cover and change how a gallery looks
Choose the cover image, the theme, fonts and layout your client sees.
The cover
The cover is the first thing your client sees and the image that shows up when the link is pasted into a message. Pick a wide frame with room for the title to sit over it — a tight portrait crop gets awkward on desktop, where the cover runs full width.
Six cover styles: Full bleed (the title over the photo), Frame (the photo inset on the page, the title beneath it), Split (photo one side, title the other — stacked on a phone), Round, Editorial (title in the bottom corner) and Minimal (type only). A short subtitle such as a place and date is set in small spaced capitals; a longer one stays a sentence.
Themes
A theme sets the typography, colour and grid for the client-facing gallery. Your studio brand supplies the defaults, and a gallery can override them when a particular delivery calls for something different. Changes are live as soon as you save, including for clients who already have the link.
Layout choices worth thinking about
- Columns — every photo uncropped, in columns. The default, and kindest to portraits.
- Rows — every photo uncropped, in even rows. Kindest to landscapes.
- Grid — square tiles, cropped. The quickest way for a client to scan a large set.
- Story — rows, with a landscape photo given the full width every few rows, so a long wedding gallery has a rhythm.
- Compact / Balanced / Spacious — photo size and the space around them together. The margin at the edge of the page follows the space between photos.
- Slideshow — a full-screen auto-advancing view. Worth enabling for a first-look moment.
Switch the preview to Mobile before you send. It is the real gallery drawn at a phone's width, so what you see there is what your client gets. Most clients open a gallery on their phone first, and a layout that sings on a 27-inch monitor can be a scroll marathon on a handset.