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FOCL Galleries
FOCL Galleries
Uploading, organizing, sharing and selling your photos.
Basics
How FOCL Galleries works
The five things you will use: galleries, sections, the cover, your homepage and shared sets.
Move your galleries to FOCL
Request a move from Pixieset, Pic-Time, ShootProof, SmugMug, Zenfolio, CloudSpot or another platform. What it costs, how long it takes, and what happens after you ask.
Your account, and switching to the planning app
See which email you're signed in with, reset your password, change your name, and move between Galleries and the FOCL Wedding Day App.
Refer a photographer
Share FOCL and get paid. What the other photographer gets, what you earn, how and when payouts arrive, and where to find your link from Galleries.
Get help from a person
Contact support from inside Galleries. How to send a request with screenshots, what the statuses mean, and where the reply arrives.
Install FOCL on your computer
Keep Wedding Day and Galleries in one FOCL desktop app.
Uploading & videos
Upload photos
Drag a folder onto the page or use Upload Media. Which file types work, the size limits, and what to do if an upload stops.
Send photos from Lightroom Classic
Install the FOCL plugin, connect your account, and publish photos directly to a gallery.
Add videos to a gallery
Upload videos next to your photos on any paid plan. Processing, thumbnails, cover video, downloads, and what to do if a video will not process.
Organizing
Save and reuse gallery section templates
Save your section names and order for weddings, engagements and sessions, then start new galleries with that structure.
Organize photos into sections
Create sections like Ceremony and Reception, move photos into them, select many photos at once, set the order, and hide a whole section from the client.
Choose the cover photo
Set the gallery cover, filter for landscape or portrait frames, upload a cover from your computer, and set the focal point so it crops well on phones.
Privacy & hidden photos
Hide photos, or show them to the client only
Hide removes a photo from the gallery for everyone. Client only shows it to whoever enters the client's email address. The difference, plus a third option the client controls.
Let clients hide photos from guests (Client Controls)
Give clients a code to hide or show photos in their guest gallery. Nothing is deleted.
Password, email registration and expiry date
The gallery-level privacy settings: require a password, collect an email before viewing, set an expiry date, and choose the client's email.
Sharing & downloads
Publish a gallery and send it to the client
Publish makes the link work. Send to client emails it. How to preview the email, include the password, copy the link for a text, and change the link's address.
Control how guests download photos
Control download permissions, PINs and sizes, and deliver clean files while keeping gallery previews watermarked. Includes section downloads and large ZIPs.
Share a few photos with a vendor
Send a florist, planner or magazine a link to just the photos you choose. They never get into the full gallery. The link reads like the gallery and the set, and you can change it.
Favorites & search
Photo search for guests
Guests can search by keyword or take a selfie to find photos they appear in. How to turn it on, check progress, and improve matches.
How couples and guests pick favorites
Anyone can heart a photo or save it to a named list. Why they are asked for an email, and how they get their favorites back on another device.
See who favorited what
The Favorites section of a gallery's Activity tab: by person, by photo, copy filenames, and export a CSV for your lab or album designer.
Managing galleries
See which photos were downloaded
Download details in a gallery’s Activity tab: photos, filenames, sizes, ZIP status, and older activity.
Galleries
Your email templates
Choose, customize, and reuse email templates for gallery deliveries and expiry reminders.
The FOCL Holiday Giveaway
Enter on Instagram, then enter delivered galleries for more chances to win.
Emails we send you
Every automatic email from FOCL Galleries, what sets it off, and how to turn each one off.
Design, homepage & branding
Change how a gallery looks (Design tab)
Cover layouts, typography pairings, grid style and colors, with a live preview of the real gallery. Set per gallery.
Save and reuse your gallery colors
Save named color presets, enter your exact brand HEX colors, and reuse a palette without typing it again.
Match your gallery and delivery email colors
Yes—use Cover Studio’s Match gallery & email to carry your cover colors into the gallery and client delivery email. Preview, apply, then send when ready.
Use your brand colors across galleries
Apply a saved palette to selected or all existing galleries, and choose a default for new galleries.
Design a gallery cover in Cover Studio
Edit gallery cover presets, photos, fonts and layers; build photo layouts, add motion, check phones, match delivery emails and restore earlier designs.
Save and reuse cover designs, logos and brand kits
Reuse Cover Studio presets, design blocks and brand kits, upload a logo, and choose a default cover with Studio signature.
Build your portfolio homepage
Choose galleries for your public portfolio homepage, set its appearance and privacy, or open Homepage Studio for custom templates and layouts.
Design and publish with Homepage Studio
Customize your portfolio homepage with templates, photo layouts, fonts, colors, navigation and phone designs. Save private drafts, restore history and publish.
Logo, studio name and branding
Settings → Branding: your logo, name, bio, contact details and socials, the typeface every gallery uses, your contact page link, and the watermark.
Connect your custom gallery domain
Use galleries.yourdomain.com for client galleries while keeping your existing website. Guided DNS setup for Studio and Pro.
Print store
Sell prints from a gallery
Couples order prints from the gallery. WHCC makes them, you set the markup, FOCL handles payment and shipping. How to set it up.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
The link doesn't work, changing the link's address, changing the date or location, connecting a gallery to a wedding, a missing photo, and download notifications.