Summary:
The Galleries Element is an easy to use photo display tool of the Article Creation Area. It contains 4 gallery types including Single Photo, Slide Show, Tiled Gallery and Nested Gallery. Each gallery has a distinctly unique layout presentation which effortlessly gets generated after you upload your chosen images.
Overview:
From within the Create/Edit Article Area, click on the Galleries Element.
You will notice that a selection of the 4 types of layouts will appear on the left-hand side of the screen, these include; Single Photo, Slide Show, Tiled Gallery and Nested Gallery.
All your images are conveniently auto resized as you upload them in real-time. No need for any external programs to reduce or resize your images.
We encourage you to try all gallery types, so that you can decide when choose a specific gallery in the future.
Single Image
Single Photo is useful for when you have only 1 image to display which displays the image in a block in your newsletter in full size.
To select an image, simply click Upload and select the image you wish to display on your article or Drag and Drop your chosen image, write a description (optional), and click Save.
You also have the option to Edit the image, to do this click Edit Photo in the top right-hand side of your screen, and then Edit Image below your image, this allows you to rotate and flip the image. Once you have finished editing your image, click Save in the top right-hand corner and then click Done, again in the top right-hand corner.
Slide Show
To select images for your Slide Show, simply click Upload and select the images you wish to display on your article or Drag and Drop your chosen images, write a description (optional), and click Save.
The top right-hand menu enables you to Preview the slide show, Upload more images or Edit the images using the Photo Editor. For the Photo Editor user manual click here.
Tiled Gallery
To select images for your Tiled Gallery, simply click Upload and select the images you wish to display on your article or Drag and Drop your chosen images, write a description (optional), and click Save.
The top right-hand menu enables you to Preview the slide show, Upload more images or Edit the images using the Photo Editor. For the Photo Editor user manual click here.
Nested Gallery
The Nested Gallery can be particularly helpful in adding multiple images of very different sizes and shapes as it sorts and orders them automatically into a neat collage.
To select images for your Nested Gallery, simply click Upload and select the images you wish to display on your article or Drag and Drop your chosen images, write a description (optional), and click Save.
The top right-hand menu enables you to Preview the slide show, Upload more images or Edit the images using the Photo Editor. For the Photo Editor user manual click here.
Note: The Nested Gallery image/s order cannot be amended.