Choosing how it looks

Grid gives every photo the same size. Rows fills each line edge to edge, the way your delivery galleries do. Columns leaves photos at their natural height. Strip runs horizontally. Large shows one photo per line.

Mosaic, Magazine and Offset mix large and small tiles in a fixed rhythm. Type Case works out its own height for every row and stacks landscape photos in pairs, so each row ends flush.

Switch layouts whenever you like. The change takes effect at once, including where the Snap-in is already embedded.

Seven looks are available: Original, Black and white, Retro, Warm, Cool, Matte and Vivid. The look sits on top of the display; nothing about the files changes.

It applies to the whole Snap-in. Individual photos can differ: the “Look” button on a photo lets you pick something else for that one.

Short headings fit between the photos, sixty characters at most. In Rows and Large they run across the full width as a divider; in the other layouts they sit between the photos as a tile.

Once a heading exists you can choose its typeface: ten fonts, or the one used by the surrounding website. Hover over a font in the list and you see the effect before you click.

With the lightbox on, a click opens the photo large on top of the page. Turn it off and the Snap-in stays a display and nothing more.

Switch it on and a small Pinterest button appears at the top left of a photo as soon as someone hovers over it. On a phone it stays visible, since there is no hover there. A click opens Pinterest with your photo and a link back to the page the Snap-in sits on.

The button is off until you turn it on, and it applies per Snap-in. Your portfolio may be pinned, the embed in a client blog post perhaps not.

We load no script from Pinterest for this. The button is a link: until somebody clicks it, Pinterest learns nothing about the visit. The website your Snap-in sits on stays free of third-party scripts.

For Snap-ins with many photos there is pagination: switch it on in the sidebar and set how many photos each page holds. The embed then shows a slim pager below the photos instead of everything at once.

That keeps long galleries in blog posts short: the page loads only the photos of the current pager page, and the text below stays within reach. Section headings appear on the page their position belongs to, and the lightbox moves through the photos of the page currently shown.