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Sharing & access

Once your gallery is ready, this is where you set its link, decide who can open it, and send it off. You'll find these controls in the Settings tab.

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A gallery has to be Published before you can share it. See Creating a gallery for how to publish.

Sharing settings​

Open Settings → Sharing.

This is your gallery's link name, the part that comes after your gallery domain. Edit it to whatever you like, using lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. CoreHue checks availability as you type, showing Available or Already taken.

When it's set, use Copy URL to grab the full link, ready to paste anywhere.

If you've connected a custom domain, your galleries use it here too.

Auto expiry​

Set a date and the gallery hides itself when that date passes. After it expires, visitors see a message that the gallery is no longer available, and you won't be able to send it until you clear the date.

This is handy for time-limited deliveries that you want to close on their own.

Show on portfolio​

Turn this on to let the published gallery appear on your public portfolio page alongside your other work. Turn it off to keep the gallery reachable only through its direct link. It's on by default.

Access settings​

Open Settings → Access to control who gets in.

Set one password that every visitor enters before they can see the gallery. You can show or hide it, Copy it, or Generate a random one. Leave it off to let anyone with the link walk in.

Email registration​

Turn this on to ask visitors for an email before they view the gallery. The addresses you collect show up in the Activity tab.

Client access​

Turn on Client access to give your main client their own private way in. CoreHue creates a separate Client password for them, which you can show, Copy, or Regenerate.

With client access on, you also get:

  • Client-only chapters: restrict specific chapters to the client. Guests won't see them at all.
  • Let clients hide photos: clients can hide photos from guests. Hidden photos stay visible to the client. This is on by default.

How visitors get in​

What a visitor sees depends on your settings:

  • No password and no email registration: the gallery opens right away.
  • A password and/or email registration: visitors fill in a single form before viewing.
  • Client access on: visitors land on a welcome screen with two choices: Client Access (asks for the client password) or Guest Access (asks for the gallery password, if you set one). Email registration applies to whichever they pick.

Returning visitors are remembered, so they don't have to enter everything again on their next visit.

When you're ready to share, you have a few options.

Use the Share gallery composer to send the gallery by email. You can fill in:

  • To (prefilled with the linked client), Cc, and Bcc
  • Subject (starts with a sensible default)
  • Message

A live preview shows how the email will look. If they apply, you can also choose to include the Client password and the Download PIN in the email. When you send, you can send a copy to yourself too.

Prefer to send it yourself? Use Copy link to paste the gallery anywhere, or share it straight to social with the built-in share buttons.

Next steps​