How to Create a Gallery

How to Create a Gallery

Galleries are repositories for your images. Galleries will be seen in your website portfolio. You need to create galleries before you can upload images.

Step 1: Navigate to the Photos tab on the PhotoMerchant navigation bar.

Step 2: Click the ‘New Gallery’ button on the left of the screen. This will open an options form.

Step 3: The Gallery Options form lets you decide how your gallery will display and be accessed.

• Status: Determines whether your gallery is visible in your website portfolio. An inactive gallery will not be visible to any of your customers, but you will be able to see it in your Admin screen.
• Gallery name: Remember, customers will see the gallery name in your website portfolio.
• Gallery slug: Your gallery will have a unique URL. When you’ve created your gallery, you’ll see the part of the URL that identifies this gallery. The unique URL would then be ‘http://yoursite.photomerchant.net/galleries/gallery-slug/’.
• Description: Your customers will see this description in your website portfolio.
• Gallery category: If you’ve created categories, you may want to add this gallery as a sub-gallery to category. For example, you may have a category labelled ‘Portraits’, and you may have a series of galleries, e.g. ‘Kids’, ‘Families’, ‘Couples’ etc.
• Gallery/Event Date: The date is automatically set to represent the date you open the gallery. However, you may want to use this to identify the shoot or event date.
• Expiry date: By setting an expiry date, you ensure that this gallery is only shown on your website for a limited time. When you gallery expires, it will be hidden in your website portfolio, but you will still be able to see the gallery in your Admin screen.If you want your Gallery to be visible indefinitely, check the box for ‘No Expiry’.
• Comments: If you check this box, you’re permitting website customers to make comments about photos within the gallery. This can be useful for getting feedback from your customers.On checking this box, you will be given additional options to choose whether or not you will moderate these comments. Moderation means that you customers’ comments aren’t visible on your website unless you specifically approve them.
• Visibility: You can select whether to limit which visitors can see your gallery. If you check the option ‘Visible only to selected customers and/or groups’, you will receive additional options to allow you to choose which customer groups or individuals can see this gallery. Tip: If you want to limit access, you need to set up your customers or groups first. If you haven’t yet set up these groups, you can return and edit your gallery options later.
• Protection: This lets you set password-protection on your gallery. This means you’ll have to share the password with the customers who you wish to permit to access this gallery.
• Feature Set: Select the feature set that applies to this gallery.Feature sets are the configurations of paper sizes and print options you choose to offer your customers, and you may have different ‘sets’ that apply to different gallery types.
• Pricing Model: Choose the pricing model that best suits this gallery. Pricing models are the price settings for the various paper/print options you’re offering in your feature sets.

Step 4: After you’ve set all your Gallery Options, click Save to create your gallery.

Step 5: The new gallery will now appear on your Photos screen. You can edit these gallery options at any time by clicking the Edit option under the gallery’s name.

Next:  If you liked this how-to guide, you might also like to learn How to Upload Photos.