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Galleries

Galleries are the heart of CoreHue. They are how you present your finished work to clients, share it with guests, and deliver the final files. Each gallery is a self-contained, beautifully designed page with its own unique link, ready to be shared the moment you hit publish.

What makes CoreHue galleries special​

Most gallery tools give you a grid of photos and a download button. CoreHue gives you a complete, themed presentation that feels like opening a magazine or stepping into a curated exhibit. Every gallery you create carries your style, your colors, and your voice.

Themed presentation​

Each gallery opens with a full cover section that sets the mood before anyone scrolls to the first photo. You pick from six preset themes, choose a cover layout, select your color palette and typography, and the result feels like something you designed from scratch. The cover can animate with a fade, a parallax drift, or a gentle zoom. It is not just a page. It is an experience.

Chapters​

Photos inside a gallery are organized into chapters. Think of them as sections of a story. For a wedding, you might have "Getting Ready," "Ceremony," "Reception," and "Portraits." For a brand shoot, maybe "Product," "Lifestyle," and "Behind the Scenes." Chapters give your gallery structure so visitors can navigate right to the part they care about.

Access control layers​

You decide exactly who sees what. A gallery can be wide open, password protected, or locked behind a dual password system where clients and guests get different levels of access. You can require an email before anyone interacts, set an expiry date so the gallery disappears after a certain day, or toggle whether it appears on your public portfolio. Everything is under your control.

Client features​

Your clients are not just passive viewers. They can build collections of their favorite photos, adding and removing picks with a simple heart icon. They can submit those collections to you with notes attached. If you allow it, they can hide photos they do not want to see. They can sit back and watch a slideshow. They can share your gallery on social media. The gallery becomes a workspace where you and your client collaborate on the final selection.

Activity tracking​

Every gallery has a built-in activity tab where you can see exactly what is happening. Who downloaded which photo, what size they chose, which emails were captured, what collections were submitted, and which photos a client decided to hide. You always know how your work is being received.

Every gallery lives at a clean, memorable address:

yourname.corehue.co/gallery-slug

The first part is your CoreHue username. The second part is the slug you set when creating the gallery. You can customize the slug at any time, and CoreHue checks in real time that it is available.

A gallery is always in one of two states:

  • Draft. Only you can see it. Use this while you are still uploading, organizing, and designing. No one else can access the gallery, even if they have the link.
  • Published. The gallery is live and accessible to anyone with the link, subject to whatever access settings you have in place. You can unpublish at any time to pull it back to draft.

How clients see it​

When someone visits your gallery link, they land on a fully themed cover page. Depending on your settings, they might need to enter a password or provide their email first. Once inside, they see chapter navigation along the top or side, a beautifully laid out photo grid, and interactive tools like the heart icon for collections, download buttons, and slideshow controls. Everything feels polished and intentional because you designed it that way.