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Chapters

Chapters are how you give your gallery structure. Instead of one long stream of photos, you break them into meaningful sections that tell a story. A wedding gallery might have "Getting Ready," "Ceremony," "First Dance," and "Portraits." A product shoot might have "Flatlays," "Lifestyle," and "Detail Shots." Chapters let visitors jump straight to the part they care about.

The default chapter​

Every new gallery starts with one chapter called Featured. You can rename it to anything you like, but there always needs to be at least one chapter in a gallery. This keeps things simple. If your gallery only needs one section, just rename "Featured" to whatever fits and you are good to go.

Creating chapters​

In the gallery editor, look at the chapter sidebar on the left side. At the bottom, you will see a + button. Click it, give your new chapter a name, and it appears in the sidebar list right away. You can create as many chapters as you need.

Reordering chapters​

The order of chapters in the sidebar is the order visitors see them in the public gallery. To rearrange, simply drag a chapter up or down in the sidebar. Drop it where you want it, and the new order saves automatically. This makes it easy to experiment with the flow of your gallery until it feels right.

Chapter visibility​

Each chapter has a visibility setting with two options:

  • Everyone. All visitors to the gallery can see this chapter, whether they are clients, guests, or anyone with the link.
  • Client only. Only visitors who enter the client password can see this chapter. Guests who enter the regular gallery password will not see it at all.

Client-only chapters are perfect for sharing sensitive or exclusive photos with your main client while keeping them hidden from everyone else. For example, at a wedding, you might put intimate couple portraits in a client-only chapter so the couple sees them but their guests do not. Or for a corporate event, you might keep executive headshots in a client-only chapter while the general event photos are open to all attendees.

For client-only chapters to work, you need to have Client Access turned on in your gallery settings. More on that in the Sharing and Access page.

Download control per chapter​

Each chapter has its own download toggle. Even if downloads are turned on for the gallery as a whole, you can turn them off for specific chapters. This is useful when you want to offer some photos for download but keep others view-only. Maybe you let clients download the edited portraits but keep the behind-the-scenes chapter as viewing only.

Chapter context menu​

Right-clicking a chapter in the sidebar (or clicking the small menu icon) opens a context menu with quick options:

  • Rename. Change the chapter name without losing any photos or settings.
  • Delete. Remove the chapter entirely.

Deleting a chapter​

When you delete a chapter, CoreHue asks what you want to do with the photos inside it. You have two choices:

  • Move them. Pick another chapter, and all the photos shift over, keeping their order and names intact.
  • Delete them. Remove the photos along with the chapter.

You cannot delete the last remaining chapter in a gallery. There always needs to be at least one.