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New things in Gallorie, newest first. Each update says what changed and which plan it is on. If you run a studio, you also get these by email the day they go live.

Put the subject where you want it, six new templates, and new website sections

Covers, section headers and photo tiles crop your photos to fit their shape. You can now mark where the subject is in a photo, and every crop keeps that point in view. There are also six new templates, a video cover frame, five new sections for your website, and Majlis chapters now take their colours from their own photos.

Mark where the subject is in a photo

A crop is what happens when a photo is shown in a shape that does not match it, like a wide cover or a square tile. Until now Gallorie cropped from the middle, so a face near the top could be cut off. Open a gallery, go to Photos, and choose Position on any photo. Drag the point onto the subject. The cover, the section headers, the grid tiles, your website and the link preview all keep that point in view. Photos you do not mark stay exactly as they are.

Six new templates

Montage, Dusk, Runway, Chronicle, Ceremony and Couple. Each one pairs a cover frame with a section header style, so the gallery feels designed from the first screen to the last set. Pick one in the Templates panel. The matching look for your website comes with it, and the template preview now shows the gallery and the website side by side.

The existing templates have a new opening

Seventeen of the templates you already know now open on one of the new cover frames and a drawn section header. A gallery on one of these templates shows the new opening the next time a client opens it, unless you chose your own cover frame or header for that gallery. Your motion settings do not change.

A film clip as your gallery cover

Studio

Video is now one of the cover frames. Pick a short clip from one of your films, or upload one, and it plays silently at the top of the gallery. Clients on slow connections, or who asked their phone for less motion, see the first frame as a still instead. If a clip is too heavy to load quickly, Gallorie tells you why and what to change.

Five new sections for your website, and more page templates

Studio

A feature pair (two photos, each with a line of text), a package table, process steps, a call to action band (one line and one button asking visitors to get in touch), and a map of where you shoot. There are now eight page templates to start from instead of three. Pages fade into each other when a visitor moves between them, and you can round the corners of every image or button on the site and lift them off the page.

Your website starts with your business details

Studio

If you have verified your business, the map on your website already marks your home state, and the contact section shows your business phone number. There is a new optional phone field on the verification form for this.

Three new controls in Design

Studio

Pace sets how fast things move, on galleries and on your website. Title shade sets how dark the tint behind the cover title is, so the title stays readable over a bright photo. Motion ceiling caps how much movement a gallery can have, whatever else is set. The motion cards in the panel now show their own motion.

Majlis chapters take their colours from their own photos

In the Majlis template, each chapter now gets its colours from the photos inside it, kept close to the colours of the whole gallery so the chapters still feel like one book. A chapter whose photos do not agree on a colour keeps the gallery colours.

A second line for a set

A set is a group of photos you name yourself. You can now give a set a short second line, like a place or a date. It appears under the set name on the chapter cover in Majlis and in the passage header style.

Also improved
  • Section headers now appear on galleries that use a grid template. Before, they showed in the studio preview but not on the gallery your client opened.
  • Photos in a grid gallery now fade in as your client scrolls, following the motion setting you chose. This also only worked in the preview before.
  • Compare mode and the note your client leaves with a selection now work on every template, not only the grid.
  • Grid photos now load in a size made for phone screens, so galleries use less mobile data.
  • Your website home page shows its first screen sooner, because the page now arrives already drawn.
  • When a client has asked their phone for less motion, covers and page changes now hold still at every motion setting.
  • A gallery set to the video cover frame with no clip shows the cover photo instead of an empty space.
  • On phones, the browser bar now takes the colour of the page your client is looking at.

Some of these need the Studio or Studio Pro plan. see the plans.

A new template for Malaysian weddings, and new section headers

There is a new gallery template called Majlis. It turns each of your photo sets into a chapter, gives every chapter its own opening page, and lets your client jump straight to the part they want to see. You can also choose how each section of a gallery opens. And choosing a very large batch of photos for one upload now works.

Majlis, a template made for Malaysian weddings

A set is a group of photos you name yourself, like akad, majlis or resepsi. In the Majlis template every set becomes a chapter. Each chapter opens with its own page showing the name and how many photos are in it, and the colours change as your client moves from one chapter to the next. A small index stays on screen, so your client can jump straight to any chapter instead of scrolling past the rest. Pick Majlis in the Templates panel of any gallery.

Six new ways for a section to open

Studio

A section header is the title that opens each set of photos in a gallery. Until now, each template had one fixed style. You can now choose from six: a thin line, a wide photo band, a short passage of text, a large number, a pair of photos, or a small label. Open a gallery, go to Design, and pick one under Headers. If you change nothing, your galleries keep the style they have today.

Photos in a header are shown whole

When a section header uses a photo, Gallorie now picks one that fits the shape of the space and shows all of it. Faces are no longer cut off at the top or the sides.

Upload a very large batch of photos in one go

Choosing several hundred photos at once used to stop with an error before the upload even started. That is fixed. You can now choose up to 10,000 photos in a single upload.

Our emails read properly in dark mode

Many phones turn emails dark on their own. Ours came out hard to read when that happened, with grey text on a grey background. Every email we send to you and to your clients now looks the same, whether the phone is set to light or dark.

Also improved
  • Long galleries no longer go blank for a moment when a client scrolls through them quickly.
  • A gallery no longer pulls the page back while photos are still loading.
  • Photos now load at the size they are shown, so a gallery uses less mobile data.

Some of these need the Studio or Studio Pro plan. see the plans.

Seven new cover styles for your galleries

The cover is the first thing your client sees when they open a gallery. You can now choose from seven cover frames, pick from four new font pairings, and use the same cover frames on your website.

Seven new cover frames

Studio

A cover frame is the layout of the first screen of your gallery. There are seven new ones: stack, pair, triptych, curtain, wash, marquee and handoff. Open a gallery, go to Design, and pick the frame you like for that gallery.

The same cover frames on your website

Studio

The top section of your portfolio website can use the same cover frames. Your website and your galleries will look like they belong together.

Four new font pairings

Studio

Each theme now suggests a font pairing that fits it. Pick one, and every part of the gallery uses it.

Smoother scrolling on phones

Galleries and websites now use the phone’s own scrolling. Pages load faster and feel smoother when clients swipe through photos.

See the whole gallery before you publish

In the gallery workspace, the preview now shows the whole gallery exactly as your client will see it, before you publish.

This page, and updates by email

This page lists every update. There is also a What’s new page inside the studio. If you own a studio, you get an email each time something new goes live. Every email has a link at the bottom to stop them.

Also improved
  • The cover photo now shows straight away when a gallery opens. Only the title animates in.
  • Websites using the Folio layout now have a proper large cover at the top, instead of a thin strip.

Some of these need the Studio or Studio Pro plan. see the plans.

Freelancers can now verify with an NRIC

If you work on your own without a registered business, you can now verify your account with your NRIC. Also in this update: photos fill the whole screen on phones, and a new gallery only asks clients to pick photos when you turn that on.

Verify your account with your NRIC

Verification used to ask every studio for a business registration (SSM) number. If you are a freelancer without a registered business, you can now type your NRIC number instead. It is used only to verify you, and it is never shown to your clients or on your website.

Photos open full screen on phones

When a client taps a photo on their phone, it now fills the whole screen. The close, previous and next buttons stay in reach.

New galleries only ask clients to pick photos if you want them to

By default, a new gallery simply delivers the photos. If you want your client to choose photos for editing or for an album, turn on selection in the Proofing page.

Also improved
  • Large galleries no longer flicker when more photos load.
  • Galleries on the Free plan can change templates again.
  • If you have not set any prices, your gallery no longer shows a checkout.
  • The download panel now scrolls properly on small phone screens.
  • The “resume upload” banner no longer appears for an upload that is already running.

Your studio gets its own web address

Choose a name for your studio on gallorie.com, or connect a domain you already own. Your portfolio grows with your plan: start with a showcase link, add a one-page website, then add About and Contact pages with an enquiry form.

Your studio name in every link

Go to Settings and choose a name for your studio. Every new link you send will start with it, for example yourstudio.gallorie.com. Links you sent before this still work.

Use a domain you already own

Studio

If you already have a domain like yourstudio.com, connect it in Settings. Your galleries and your website will open on it. The gallorie.com address keeps working too.

A website made from photos you already delivered

Studio

Pick a template and Gallorie fills it with your own photos. Everything sits on one page, and the menu jumps to each section.

About and Contact pages, with an enquiry form

Studio Pro

Add a services section, an About page, and a Contact page with an enquiry form. New enquiries appear in your Enquiries inbox in the studio.

Also improved
  • You can now change your plan any time in Settings, under Billing.

Some of these need the Studio or Studio Pro plan. see the plans.