Gallery slideshow
A gallery can play itself. Clients press Watch the slideshow and see it full screen, which is what a good many of them do first, with the family, on a television. Any key or tap stops it.
Where to find it
- Go to Galleries → Galleries and open the gallery.
- Scroll down to the Slideshow panel.
The panel appears once the gallery has photographs that have finished preparing.
Turning it on or off
Slideshows are on for every new gallery.
- In the Slideshow panel, tick or untick Offer a slideshow when they open the gallery.
- Press Save.
Turned off, the Watch the slideshow button disappears from the gallery. The photographs are not affected. A gallery that has closed shows no slideshow.
Pace
Choose how long each photograph stays on screen under Pace, then press Save:
| Pace | Each photograph |
|---|---|
| Slow | 6 seconds |
| Measured (the usual setting) | 4.5 seconds |
| Brisk | 3 seconds |
Under the choices, the panel tells you how many photographs will play and roughly how long the whole slideshow runs. A five-minute slideshow is one nobody watches to the end.
Between photographs
Under Between photographs, choose Fade or Cut, then press Save. Fade suits a wedding; cut suits a fashion set.
Which photographs play
The first forty photographs, in the gallery's own order. Past forty it stops being a reveal and becomes a screensaver.
Three things happen automatically:
- The cover goes first, if the gallery has one. It is the photograph you already chose to lead with.
- Anything still processing is left out, so there is never a gap.
- Sections only the couple see are left out for anybody who has not unlocked them.
To change what plays, rearrange the gallery. There is no separate slideshow selection to keep in step with it.
Why there is no music
Slideshows are silent, and there is no way to add a song to one. That is on purpose.
Playing a commercial recording on a gallery anybody can open counts as a **public performance**. In Australia that needs a OneMusic licence, and the responsibility sits with whoever published the gallery, which is you. Adding "their song" to a gallery could land you with a letter you did not expect.
If you want your photographs set to music
Make a short film instead. Put the photographs to a track from a licensed music library such as Musicbed, Artlist or Epidemic Sound (one whose licence covers online use), export it as a video, and add it to the gallery in the Films panel. A film's sound plays in the gallery. See [video in a gallery](/gallery-video).