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FOCL Galleries

Uploading, organizing, sharing and selling your photos.

Basics

How FOCL Galleries worksThe five things you will use: galleries, sections, the cover, your homepage and shared sets.

Uploading & videos

Upload photosDrag a folder onto the page or use Upload Photos. Which file types work, the size limits, and what to do if an upload stops.Add videos to a galleryUpload 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

Organize photos into sectionsCreate sections like Ceremony and Reception, move photos into them, select many photos at once, set the order, and hide a whole section from the couple.Choose the cover photoSet 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 couple onlyHide removes a photo from the gallery for everyone. Couple only shows it to the couple and never to guests. The difference, plus a third option the couple controls.Let the couple hide photos from guests (Couple Controls)Turn on Couple Controls and the couple can hide photos from their own guests with a short code, without emailing you.Password, email registration and expiry dateThe gallery-level privacy settings: require a password, collect an email before viewing, set an expiry date, and choose the couple's email.

Sharing & downloads

Publish a gallery and send it to the couplePublish makes the link work. Send to couple emails it. How to preview the email, include the password, and copy the link for a text.Control how guests download photosThe Allow downloads switch, the download PIN, high resolution versus web size, section downloads, and how large ZIPs are delivered.Share a few photos with a vendorSend a florist, planner or magazine a link to just the photos you choose. They never get into the full gallery.

Favorites & search

Photo search for guestsGuests can search by keyword or take a selfie to find every photo they are in. How to turn it on, and how your tags make searches for moments work.How couples and guests pick favoritesAnyone 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 whatThe Favorites section of a gallery's Activity tab: by person, by photo, copy filenames, and export a CSV for your lab or album designer.

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.Set up your portfolio homepageYour public page at galleries.getfocl.app/p/your-name: cover, Looks, title style, about, featured galleries, and publishing.Logo, studio name and brandingSettings → Branding: your logo, name, bio, contact details and socials, the typeface every gallery uses, your contact page link, and the watermark.

Print store

Sell prints from a galleryCouples 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 questionsThe link doesn't work, changing the date or location, connecting a gallery to a wedding, a missing photo, and download notifications.