# Publish Your First Gallery in the Browser | aftersnap

Source: https://aftersnap.io/en-us/documentation/erste-schritte/erste-galerie

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### Publish Your First Gallery in the Browser

You create a gallery under “Galleries”, upload the photos into its first set, choose the cover photo and the download setting, and publish it. From then on the gallery link takes your clients to the images; password, watermark and slideshow can follow later.

Last updated on October 14, 2026

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Before you start

- Your account exists and your email address is confirmed.

- The images are on your computer as JPG, PNG or WebP files.

- Your plan still has room for another gallery and for the files.

#### Create the gallery #

Galleries New Gallery

In aftersnap, photos always belong to a set, never to the gallery itself. That is why aftersnap creates a first set along with the gallery.

- Click “Galleries” at the top, then “New Gallery”.

- Enter a name, for example “Anna and Jonas”.

- Click “Create Gallery”.

The new gallery is a draft. Its link shows nothing until you publish it.

#### Upload the photos #

Click “Upload Photos” in the set, or drag the files straight into it.

- Select the images.

- If the selection does not fit into your free storage, aftersnap shows how much is missing. “Upload Only What Fits” uploads the part that does.

- Wait until no photo shows a processing status any more. Until then you can carry on working in the gallery.

If aftersnap already knows a file, one dialogue decides for the whole batch: “Skip” leaves the existing photo untouched, “Replace” swaps the file and keeps sorting, selection and comments, “Save as copy” keeps both and adds a suffix to the new name.

#### Choose the cover photo #

The cover photo is what your clients see first when they open the gallery.

- Hover over the photo you want and click the star icon.

- In the “Set as cover photo?” dialogue, choose “Desktop”.

- For a separate portrait crop, repeat this and choose “Mobile”.

Without a mobile cover photo of its own, aftersnap uses the desktop image there.

#### Set the download option #

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Open gallery Access & Visibility Download

A new gallery starts at “No Download”. You decide what your clients may take with them.

The “Download” field sits in the sidebar under “Access & Visibility”. “No Download” keeps the gallery for viewing. “Single” releases individual files. “Single + ZIP” additionally offers the whole gallery as one file.

With “Single + ZIP”, aftersnap also switches on the favourites feature: heart buttons and the favourites download. Switch it off under “Display” if you do not want it. Without the ZIP download there are no favourites.

#### Check the gallery as a guest sees it #

The preview icon (“Preview gallery”) opens the gallery exactly as your guests will see it. While it is a draft, a bar at the top offers “Publish now” and “Go to management”.

- Check the cover photo, the title and the order of the sets.

- Open one image and page through the gallery.

- Download a single photo if you have released downloads.

A private browser window does not show a draft yet. You run the check there after publishing.

#### Publish #

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While the gallery is a draft, the orange “Publish gallery” button sits at the top right.

- Click “Publish gallery”. There is no confirmation step.

- The top right now reads “Published”, with a small switch next to it. Only now does the link lead to the photos.

Important

The switch next to “Published” turns the gallery back into a draft. A link you have already sent then no longer leads to the photos. The gallery, its images and its settings stay as they are.

Check the result

Open the gallery link in a private browser window. Cover photo, sets and the download setting must look exactly as they did in the preview. A browser remembers a password for the session; a private window asks for it again.

#### Share the link #

Click the copy icon (“Copy link”) next to the gallery link and put the link into a message of your own.

If it does not work

After copying, aftersnap reports “Link copied, but the gallery is a draft”.

Your clients would get an error page behind that link. “Publish now” publishes the gallery straight away, “Later” leaves it as a draft.

#### Send the link from aftersnap #

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Instead of writing the message yourself, you can put it together in aftersnap.

If the gallery is in proofing mode, the proofing email with the proofing password goes out instead.

- Click “Send gallery link by email”.

- Choose a single person or a couple, and the form of address.

- Enter name and email address, and add a personal message if you want one. A click into the empty address field lists the addresses you wrote to most recently; as you type, aftersnap searches all earlier recipients.

- Check the subject and the text in the preview, then send.

Without a mailbox of your own the message goes out through aftersnap. The sender is then aftersnap, but replies still reach you. With your own SMTP access your address is the sender.

Sensible next steps

Draft, Password, Master Access and Expiry Date

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