Logo, studio name and branding

Go to Settings → Branding.

Studio details

Your studio name, logo, bio, website, socials and contact details. Your name, bio and the contact links you switch on appear at the bottom of every gallery and on your homepage. Each one has a switch, so you choose what is shown.

Your logo appears at the top of your public homepage, above your studio name. Photo watermarks have a separate image in Settings → Watermark. Replacing or removing your branding logo does not change your watermarks, and uploading a watermark does not change your homepage logo. The logo is not used as a header or footer on the couple’s gallery pages. Original full-resolution files stay untouched.

Typography

Branding → Typography sets your studio’s default gallery fonts: the heading style for cover titles and section names, and the text font used through the gallery. A pairing keeps those two fonts coordinated.

Galleries that use your studio default follow changes here, including galleries you have already shared. A gallery with its own font choice keeps that choice. To change just one gallery, open its Design → Typography. Choose Use my studio default there to have it follow your studio again.

The picker starts with Suggested styles. Browse Classic, Modern, Statement, Handwritten, or All styles, or search by a style or font name. A sample gallery shows the selected heading and text fonts. Click a style to apply it; changes save automatically. Wait for Saved. If saving fails, use Retry.

This setting controls gallery typography. Your homepage’s title font is set separately in the Homepage editor.

Gallery color presets

Open Branding → Colors to save named palettes with your page, surface and accent colors. You can enter exact HEX codes, reuse a preset in any gallery, choose a default for new galleries, or explicitly apply a preset to selected or all existing galleries.

Every account includes one saved brand palette. Studio and Pro include multiple saved presets for different brands or styles. Applying your included palette to existing galleries and setting a new-gallery default are available on every plan. Existing font choices and the Studio/Pro gallery-credit benefit are unchanged.

Colors work as copies: changing a preset or the default does not restyle existing galleries. Use Apply to galleries… when you want to update them. This differs from the studio font default above, which galleries can keep following.

See Save and reuse your gallery colors for the editor and Use your brand colors across galleries for existing and future galleries. The same saved presets are available in each gallery’s Design → Color panel.

Match cover, gallery and email branding

Use Cover Studio → Match gallery & email inside a gallery to preview and apply matching cover, gallery-page and delivery-email styling. This is separate from saved page color presets and from Settings → Client emails, which edits wording. Follow the matching steps.

For reusable cover artwork, logos and font/color kits, see Save and reuse cover designs. For your portfolio page’s own colors, fonts, navigation and footer, use Homepage Studio → Styles.

Contact page

A URL for the “Get in touch” link in your galleries. Leave it blank and that link opens an email instead.

Open Settings → Branding → Gallery footer to preview the bottom of your client gallery. Studio and Pro include Hide FOCL credit, which removes “Delivered with FOCL” from all your client galleries and shared sets. Your photographer name, public contact links, favorites recovery and reporting links stay available.

Switch it on and wait for Saved. The change applies to existing and future galleries; refresh an already-open gallery to see it. Switch it off to show the credit again. Other plans show Upgrade to Studio, which opens the plan comparison before you choose or pay for anything.

Leaving Studio or Pro makes the credit visible again. Your preference stays saved and resumes if you return to an eligible plan. Free, trial, Essentials and Lifetime alone do not include credit removal. This setting does not change email branding, the homepage footer or photo watermarks.

Custom gallery domain

With Studio or Pro, open Settings → Brand & galleries → Your domain to connect an address such as galleries.yourdomain.com. Your gallery links and the links in delivery emails then use your address after verification. Your main website and email sender stay in place. Follow Connect your custom gallery domain for the DNS steps.

Watermark

Open a gallery’s Settings → Watermark to create, preview and apply its watermark in one place. You can upload a logo, choose text, change position, and adjust size and opacity without leaving the gallery.

Choose Logo or Text under Watermark style. Upload a logo or enter your text here.
Choose Bottom right, Bottom left, Center or Tiled. Tiled repeats your logo or text across the entire photo, including the corners on portrait and landscape photos. You can upload a single logo; you do not need to make a grid yourself. An existing logo-grid image also works.
Adjust Size and Opacity while watching the preview on your photo. Size runs from 25% to 300% of the standard watermark size; 100% does not mean the photo’s width. With Tiled, larger sizes give fewer, larger repeats. Opacity controls how faint or strong the mark is.
Turn on Apply watermark to display the design to clients. Choose separately whether Watermark downloads should be on.

Changes preview immediately and save automatically. Wait for All changes saved before closing the browser. A gallery logo upload changes only that gallery’s watermark, never your studio logo or another gallery.

Studio defaults or a design for this gallery

Existing galleries start with Using studio defaults and retain their current appearance and download settings. Adjusting any design control makes a copy just for that gallery; the label changes to Customized for this gallery. Other galleries keep their designs.

Choose Use studio defaults to remove the gallery customization and follow the studio design again. Future studio changes then apply to that gallery. If the studio default is off, inheriting it stops displaying a watermark; the editor explains this and offers Use for this gallery to make an independent design.

Studio Settings → Watermark holds the reusable defaults. Its Watermark available switch must be on for galleries following those defaults. This switch does not control customized galleries. Changing studio text, logo, position, size or opacity updates only galleries still using studio defaults. The logo uploaded in Studio Settings remains shared with Branding.

Watermarks apply to all existing photos and future uploads. You do not need to re-upload photos or toggle watermarking off and on after editing. The gallery settings preview updates when studio defaults save; refresh an already-open client gallery to load a newly saved design.

Clean photos for clients, watermarks for guests

In the gallery’s Settings → Watermark, turn on Apply watermark, select Guests only under Who sees watermarks?, and turn on Watermark downloads if guests should receive marked files too.

Add your client’s email in the gallery’s Privacy settings. Your client opens Client access in their gallery and verifies that email using the code sent to their inbox. They can then browse without the watermark and download clean original or web-size photos. If client hiding is enabled, their existing Client Controls code also unlocks this access.

Guests continue to see the watermark and receive watermarked web-size downloads. Shared photo-set links remain guest links, even when forwarded by a client. Individual downloads, selections, and gallery/section ZIPs follow the same rule. Passwords, download PINs and download permissions still apply.

Everyone keeps watermarks on for clients too. Existing galleries keep this choice until you change it. Watermark downloads off means clean downloads for everyone, regardless of the audience choice. FOCL cannot remove watermarks already baked into your uploaded files.

Watermarked previews with clean downloads

Leave Apply watermark on and turn Watermark downloads off. Your watermark stays visible while clients browse. Permitted High resolution downloads deliver the original file, Web size downloads deliver a smaller clean copy, and ZIPs contain original files. Shared sets follow the same settings. Download permissions and PINs still apply.

Turn Watermark downloads on to deliver watermarked web-size copies instead, including ZIPs. This uses the gallery’s active design: its customization, or enabled studio defaults. Turning Apply watermark off removes the watermark from the gallery and future downloads.

Existing galleries retain their download watermark setting. New galleries default to clean downloads. Ask clients to start a new download after a change; old ZIP links are invalidated, and files already downloaded cannot change. FOCL never alters originals or removes a watermark already baked into an uploaded file. Videos are never watermarked.

Preparing watermarks or seeing the wrong design

When Watermark downloads is on, Preparing watermarks… shows download preparation progress. A logo can already appear in the preview while downloadable copies are still being prepared. Larger galleries take longer; wait for Watermark ready for all photos. Pending watermarked downloads ask the guest to try again shortly. Clean downloads do not wait for watermark processing.

If you see text instead of your logo, choose Watermark style → Logo in that gallery’s Settings → Watermark, upload the image, and enable Apply watermark. To repeat the watermark over the whole photo, choose Tiled; Center places the uploaded image once, even if the image itself contains a grid.

If a design cannot save, the editor shows an error and Retry save (studio defaults use Retry). If downloadable copies cannot be prepared, choose Try again. Contact hello@getfocl.app with the gallery link if retrying does not resolve it.