Adding Images To A Gallery / Sorting / Editing
Click on “Add Images” button and new layer with media library will appear. Now you can choose images from your media library or upload them from your computer. Note: you can choose multiple images by holding “Shift” or “Control” button on your keyboard and clicking on appropriate images. Also in the same way you can choose images for multiple upload from your computer.
In the right sidebar in media layer you can edit different image properties. Here you can enter the meta information (title, alt).
- If you want a title to be appeared on your image in the gallery, use the field “Caption“.
- If you want to insert a short description to your image to be appeared in the gallery, use the field “Description“.
- Show as Highlight: this option is useful for making packery style of galleries. This gallery consists of different images, which are highlighted – they have a bigger size (double size) compared with the normal images. If you wish to display your image as highlighted (double size featured images), you can activate this option. Next, in the selectbox „Highlight Type“ you can choose, which orientation your highlighted image should have. „Squared“ means the image will have double width and double height of the normal image. „Horizontal“ means your image will have a double width, and „vertical“ – double height of the normal image in the gallery
- By clicking on “Edit image” button you have a possibility to resize, crop, rotate, move your image or create a custom thumbnail.
After making your selection and editing image properties click on “Add images”. After that the selected images will be added to your gallery.Now you have the possibility to define the sort order of your images in the gallery just per drag-and-drop:
If you want to remove some specific images from your gallery, click on “X” icon in the top right corner of the image.
If you want to edit properties of specific image from your gallery, just click on it. New tab will be opened, where you can edit image properties. After editing just save your changes and close this tab.
Saving Your Gallery
When you are done creating and editing your new gallery, click on “Publish” button in the right sidebar. Your gallery will be saved and image thumbnails will be created and shown instead of original scaled images.