A library grows fast. A gallery is how you give part of it a shape: a trip, a project, the best of the year. In Heart Photos a gallery is a list of photos with a name, a description and its own address, and one photo can be in as many galleries as you like without being copied.
Make a gallery
There are two ways, and both end in the same place.
- From the column. Press + Gallery at the top of the list of your galleries on the left, type a name, and you are taken straight to the new gallery. If you already have a gallery with that name, you go to that one instead of getting a second.
- From a photo. Open any photo and press + Gallery in the panel beside it. The list starts with Create gallery; press it, name the gallery and press Enter, and the photo is in it. Start typing instead and the list finds your galleries as you type, with "Create gallery: your name" on top when nothing is called that yet.
Inside a gallery of your own, Upload in its heading puts photos from your computer straight into it.
Fill it many photos at a time
Adding photos one by one gets old quickly, so Heart Photos has marks.
- On the wall, hold the pointer over a thumbnail and press M to mark it. Press M again to take the mark off.
- Shift+M marks every photo between the one you marked last and the one under the pointer.
- As soon as anything is marked, a Marked photos list appears in the corner. With two or more marked, it offers + Gallery, which opens your marked photos together with a box ready for the gallery's name. Name it, and every marked photo goes into it.
- Unmark all, beside that box, clears the marks when you are done.
Already have the gallery? Open it, and Move photos in the corner's list puts the marked photos in it: just after the photo you have selected, or at the end if none is.
Choose who can see it
Every gallery of yours has a chooser in its heading with three settings:
- Public: listed for everyone under Public galleries.
- Unlisted: anyone with the link can open it, but it is not listed.
- Private: only you.
New galleries start public, so switch them first if they are just for you. Your galleries are listed in the column the same way, under My galleries, My galleries [unlisted] and My galleries [private]. When someone else opens one of your galleries, they see its public and unlisted photos and never a private one, so a private photo can sit in a shared gallery safely.
The pencil before the gallery's name edits its name and description.
Put it in order
In a gallery of your own, drag a thumbnail on the wall or along the row of thumbnails under the big image to a new place. The others slide out of the way, and the order is saved when you let go.
Galleries inside galleries
A gallery can hold other galleries. Over a gallery of your own, Add gallery puts another of your galleries inside it, and Add tag does the same with a tag, showing every photo with that word as a gallery of its own. Each one shows on the wall as a stack with +N, how many it holds. Open it and its wall appears where the big image would be; press a thumbnail there to go in, and your browser's Back brings you out again. They drag into place among the photos like everything else.
Somebody else's gallery
On a public or unlisted gallery that is not yours, Save to my library makes a copy of it that is yours to rename, reorder and share. It copies only the photos you do not already have, and the copy starts as visible as the original.
Deleting a gallery
Delete gallery asks first. Left as it is, only the gallery goes to the Trash and every photo in it stays in your library. Tick Also delete all photos in this gallery and your own photos in it go to the Trash too. Either way, Undo brings everything back.
Try it
Open Heart Photos, press M over three photos you like, then + Gallery in the corner, and give them a name. And if you are new here, He.art is where the same account asks questions, writes docs and makes images.