Clicking Gallery Settings while in a gallery will enable you to change the settings for this particular gallery. Here are some details about what each of these different options will do:
General
This section allows you to control when a gallery will be accessible and set a custom link.
| GALLERY ACCESS | |
| Active |
Makes the gallery live and viewable |
| Inactive |
Gallery is not live and is not viewable |
| Pre-Released |
Allows you to collect visitor email addresses before the gallery is active |
| DATE OPTIONS | |
| Shoot Date |
The date of the event or photo shoot. By default, this is the date of your upload. |
| Expiration Date |
At 11:59 pm, on this date (in your studio's time zone), the gallery will become inactive. |
| Order Due Date |
Use this date in gallery email templates and for email automations sent to gallery visitors to remind your clients that their ordering period is ending. |
| Release Date |
A gallery set to Inactive / Pre-Released will automatically be released (made live for viewing) on this date. |
| CUSTOM GALLERY LINK |
Create a customized URL for the gallery |
Layout
Control the way your images are displayed to your clients.
| Intro Page Layout |
Choose a layout to invite your clients into their gallery |
| Photo Pages |
Select how you’d like photos to be displayed in the gallery |
| Gallery Intro Message |
Choose to welcome visitors with a text or video message. These messages will display as studios enter the gallery. |
Gallery
Give your gallery some color, additional options, and music!
| Color Set |
Select your color set. Color sets determine the fonts, color scheme, and logo displayed in the gallery. |
| Language |
Choose a language for text inside the client gallery |
| Show Filenames |
Turn filename visibility on or off in the gallery |
| Add Music Playlist |
If you have music plan, choose a playlist and select whether music automatically plays (or not) when entering the gallery. |
| Allow Social Sharing |
Show or hide social share options and enter sample text that will accompany the photos when a visitor shares on social media. |
| Black & White Filtering |
Allow clients to view and order black & white versions of the gallery photos. |
| Homepage Link |
Set the website to which visitors will be sent when they click the “Website” link in the Info tab of the gallery. |
Access & Privacy
Control how your clients will access the gallery.
| Gallery Access |
Designate the gallery as public or private |
| Password-protect |
Only visitors with the password will be permitted to enter the gallery |
| Require visitors to enter an email address |
Require all visitors to enter their email addresses to enter the gallery. This allows you to track visitor activity! |
Free Digitals
Allow your clients to download images from the gallery. You can take advantage of preset permissions that we've created for you, or customize the digital permissions for your clients here.
You can add a custom print release to each permission you create.
Learn more about all of the Free Digitals options here!
| Gallery |
Free Digitals permissions that are set on the Gallery level are available to all visitors to the gallery unless you use a PIN to limit access. |
| Linked Contact |
Linked Contacts can have their own special set of permissions for free digitals. |
| Album |
Set permissions on each album you have created in the gallery. Gallery visitors will have access to album-level free digitals in addition to the gallery level permissions. |
Shopping Cart
This section allows you to add a shopping cart to your gallery and set additional options.
*If you plan to accept credit card payment, be sure that you have a payment gateway in place. Without a payment gateway, clients can create orders without payment. Learn more
| Use Shopping Cart |
Toggle this one to add a shopping cart option to your gallery. Toggling this on reveals additional options. |
| Price Sheet |
Assign a price sheet to your gallery.The items on this price sheet will be available at the prices you've set for visitors to purchase. |
| Minimum Order Amount (optional) |
Set an optional minimum order amount. Customers will not be able to place an order if the total does not reach this amount. |
| Show “Buy All” Button |
Gives clients the option to add all photos to the shopping cart at once. Turn this option on if your client is looking to buy "proof" of every photo in the gallery. |
| Allow client to Pay Later |
Allow the option to skip payment at checkout. For example, your client might pay in cash or by check outside of ShootProof. |
| Allow pick-up only |
Clients will not be charged for shipping. Use this option if clients will be picking up their orders from you. |
| Allow ship-to-client only |
Shipping fee set on your selected price sheet will apply. |
| Allow client to choose pick-up or shipping |
Clients can choose to pick up their orders (no shipping charge will be applied) or have their orders shipped to them (shipping will apply if you’ve set up shipping rates on the price sheet.) |
| Optional Message Shown at Checkout |
This text will be shown in the shopping cart. |
| Deliver a Print Release |
Toggle on this option to deliver a print release with your PAID digital download established within your price sheets. Use the text field to craft your print release to be delivered as a PDF when your client receives his/her purchased digital files. |
Advanced
As the name implies, these settings are probably not for every gallery. When in doubt, contact Support.
| Hide the “All Photos” album |
Hide the "All Photos" album from your clients. (Use this option when you only wish for visitors to see photos you’ve sorted into albums.) |
| Hide Album Photo Count |
Keep the number of images held within an album hidden within the client view |
| Hide albums within gallery |
This setting will hide the albums within the gallery from each other. You should ONLY use this setting if you are going to send a direct Album link to your client(s). Contact Support to activate this feature. |
| Add to Category |
Choose the category this gallery should live in. |
| Automatically send gallery to Archive after expiration |
Automatically archive this gallery after it expires |
| Send Automated Emails |
Choose a set of Automated Emails to send gallery visitors |
| Set Album Cover Images automatically |
ShootProof can select a photo from each album to be the cover image during upload. You can always choose a different photo later. |
| EXIF Search Label |
Contact Support to activate this feature. |