Creating a gallery
Setting up a gallery goes: create it, add your photos, make it yours, then publish and send. Here is the whole flow.
1. Create the gallery
From the Galleries page, click New gallery. On desktop you can also hover Galleries in the sidebar and click the plus, which opens the same dialog from anywhere in CoreHue.
Fill in:
- Gallery name, which is required. Something like Sarah & James Wedding. You can change it later.
- Event date, which is optional and handy for keeping galleries sorted.
Click Create gallery. CoreHue opens the new gallery on its Chapters tab, with one starter chapter called Featured, ready for photos.
New galleries start as a draft. Downloads are on, with Original plus Web Size (2048px) offered, and a four-digit download PIN is already made for you. Collections and the Gallery Guide are on as well. You can change any of that under Settings.
2. Add your photos
In the Chapters tab, drag photos onto the page or click Add photos. Photos land in whichever chapter you are viewing.
The first photo you upload becomes the cover if the gallery does not have one yet. You can change the cover from any photo's ⋯ menu with Set as cover, or from the Layout tab.
Want to split the gallery into sections like "Ceremony" and "Reception"? Add chapters from the sidebar on the left. See Chapters and Uploading photos.
3. Make it yours
Open the Layout tab to design the gallery. The sidebar holds the cover image and four controls: Cover layout, Typography, Colors and Grid. On a wide screen the real gallery previews beside it, with desktop and mobile preview buttons under it.
Changes save on their own a moment after you stop clicking, and the preview reloads.
Full details are in Design and themes.
4. Set up sharing and access
Open the Settings tab. Its six sections are Sharing, Access, Downloads, Collections, Experience and Details, listed down the left. Change anything in a section and a save bar appears at the bottom of the screen. Click Save there to keep it, or Discard to drop it.
A few controls save on their own rather than through the save bar: the Gallery URL, and the per-chapter switches for hidden chapters, client-only chapters and per-chapter downloads.
Start with Downloads, because every new gallery already carries a download PIN and your client cannot download without it. Then look at Passwords and access and Sharing and publishing.
5. Publish
When everything looks right, click Publish and confirm. The gallery goes live and CoreHue takes you straight to the email composer so you can send it.
You do not have to finish in one sitting. A gallery stays a draft, visible only to you, until you publish it. Publishing makes the link work. Sending it is a separate step.
Renaming, previewing and deleting
Rename with the pencil beside the gallery name in the header, or from the gallery card's Edit. The same dialog holds the event date.
Preview opens the real public gallery in a new tab, exactly as a visitor sees it, with a thin bar at the top reminding you that you are the owner.
Delete gallery lives in the header's ⋯ menu and on the card menu. It removes every photo, chapter and setting in that gallery for good, and it cannot be undone.