How FOCL Galleries works

FOCL Galleries is where you deliver photos and videos to clients after any kind of session. These are the five things you will work with.

Gallery

One session, delivered to a client. A gallery holds photos, optional sections, a cover photo, and its own privacy and download settings.

Choose Standalone gallery when creating a portrait, family, event or wedding gallery with a client or session name. No wedding record is needed, and the date is optional. Choose Connected wedding to use an existing FOCL wedding. You can connect or disconnect one later in Settings → General → FOCL wedding.

Both kinds of gallery have the same client wording and section and individual-photo download controls.

A gallery is either a draft or published. Only you can open a draft. Anyone with the link can open a published gallery. Switch between the two from the status next to the gallery’s name.

Section

A group of photos inside a gallery, like an album: Proofs, Finals, Ceremony, Reception. The client sees each section as a tab. Guests can download the allowed photos from one section on its own. Photos you have not moved into another section stay in Photos.

Cover

The photo the client sees first, with their names over it. You choose it, and you can set a focal point so it crops well on every screen. See Choose the cover photo or use Cover Studio for layered designs, reusable covers and matching gallery/delivery email colors.

Homepage

Your own public page at galleries.getfocl.app/p/your-name. It has a cover photo, your name and headline, an About section, and the galleries you choose to feature. See Set up your portfolio homepage, or use Homepage Studio for editable templates, photo layouts, phone compositions and private drafts.

Shared set

A hand-picked group of photos with its own link, for someone who is not the client: a florist, a caterer, a magazine. They see only those photos. See Share a few photos with a vendor.

What’s new

On desktop, open What’s new using the small sparkle icon beside the FOCL logo at the top of the sidebar. The panel lists the latest improvements and fixes, newest first. A dot shows unread updates; opening the panel marks them as read in that browser. On a phone, choose Updates near the bottom of the navigation drawer.

The ? beside it opens Help, and the bell opens Recent activity across your galleries. A dot on the bell indicates unread activity. On a phone, these remain the labeled Help and Activity controls in the drawer.