How Guests See the Gallery

First comes the cover photo across the full width, carrying the gallery title, the subtitle and your name or logo. “View gallery” leads to the photo grid.

What appears there is set in the gallery sidebar under “Display”: “Show Logo”, “Show subtitle” and “Set Headings” can each be switched off. “Show Logo” depends on your plan.

The photos sit in a mosaic of differently sized tiles rather than a rigid grid. A click opens the lightbox with next and previous and swipe gestures on a phone. A short, quick swipe is enough to reach the next photo.

In the lightbox, guests enlarge a photo with two fingers up to four times and then move it around with one finger. A double tap zooms into the spot tapped and back out again; on a computer a double click does the same. What gets enlarged is the preview guests see anyway; your download settings stay as they are.

On a computer and on the iPad there is real full screen as well. On the iPhone the full-screen button is missing, because Safari cannot show photos full screen there.

With several sets, a floating button jumps straight to a part of the gallery.

On the first visit a short piece of help can explain what the icons do. It stays available behind the question mark.

Your own info text also appears on the first visit, as a full-page overlay, and can be called up later through the info icon.

Opening a gallery through the gallery preview shows the same view your guests get. If it is still a draft or has expired, a band at the top says so. “Go to management” takes you back to the editor; for a draft, “Publish now” comes first and publishes the gallery in the editor straight away.