Chapters
Chapters are the sections inside a gallery. They group your photos into parts like Ceremony, Reception and Portraits, and they become the strip of links across the top of the gallery your client opens.
Every new gallery starts with one chapter called Featured. Rename it, add more, and arrange them however you like.
The chapter sidebar
The Chapters tab has a sidebar down the left. On a phone it opens from the menu icon beside the chapter name.
From the top down it holds:
- The gallery cover, which opens the Layout tab when you click it.
- Chapters with a + to add one.
- The chapter list, each row showing a drag handle, the chapter name, its photo count and a ⋯ menu.
- Selection requests, where you set up collections you ask a client to fill. See Collections.
Add a chapter
Click the + beside Chapters. The New chapter dialog asks for:
- Chapter name, required.
- Description, optional.
Click Add chapter and CoreHue opens the new chapter, ready for photos.
Your client sees a chapter description as a short centered paragraph above that chapter's photos. It is a good place for a line of context: what the chapter covers, or what you would like them to do with it.
Rename, reorder and delete
Open a chapter's ⋯ menu for:
- Edit, which reopens the name and description.
- Delete, which removes the chapter.
Reorder by dragging a row's handle up or down. The order you set is the order your client sees.
Deleting a chapter removes every photo in it for good. The confirmation tells you how many. Delete disappears when only one chapter is left, because a gallery always needs at least one.
Photos in a chapter
Click a chapter to open it. The number in the row is its photo count, and the same count sits beside the chapter name in the toolbar.
Photos go into whichever chapter you are viewing when you upload. See Uploading photos for the full rundown.
Move photos between chapters
You can put a photo in a different chapter, or copy it into more than one.
- For a single photo, open its ⋯ menu and choose Move to… or Copy to…, then pick the chapter.
- For several, select them and use the move or copy buttons in the selection bar at the bottom of the screen.
- You can also drag selected photos straight onto a chapter row in the sidebar to move them there.
Moving takes the photo out of its current chapter and into the new one. Copying leaves the original where it is and adds it to the chapter you choose as well.
The dialog lists the other chapters in this gallery, with New chapter at the bottom if the one you want does not exist yet. The arrow at the top left of the dialog opens a list of all your galleries. From there you can move or copy photos into a chapter of a different gallery. Pick the gallery, click Next, then pick the chapter.
Chapters you can hide
Three separate switches decide who sees a chapter and what they can do with it.
| Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Hidden chapters | Settings → Sharing | Hides the chapter from everyone viewing the public gallery. At least one chapter has to stay visible. |
| Client-only chapters | Settings → Access | Shows the chapter only to someone who came in through Client access. Guests never see it. Available while Client access is on. |
| Enable downloads for | Settings → Downloads | Decides which chapters a visitor can download. Shows once a gallery has more than one chapter, and at least one has to stay downloadable. |
Hiding a chapter is the way to park work you are not ready to show without deleting it. See Passwords and access for client-only chapters and Downloads for per-chapter downloads.
Naming chapters well
Short and literal beats clever. Getting ready, Ceremony, Portraits, Reception tells a client exactly where to go. A wedding delivered as one long scroll gets skimmed. The same wedding in five chapters gets looked at properly.