Artilio™Galleries and chapters
A gallery is the deliverable. Chapters are the sections inside it. One gallery can hold the whole wedding, ceremony, reception, boudoir, all in one place.
Understanding the gallery and chapter model is the key to getting the most from Artilio. Almost everything else, sharing, access control, client experience, builds on top of it.
The gallery¶
A gallery is the top-level unit you deliver to a client. Think of it as the photo album for a single job. One wedding = one gallery. One brand shoot = one gallery. One school portrait day = one gallery.
Each gallery has:
- A title visible to the client.
- A unique link your clients use to access it.
- One or more chapters.
- Access settings that control who can see what.
Chapters¶
A chapter divides a gallery into named sections. When you create a chapter and drag photos into it, those photos appear as a labelled group in the client view.
Typical chapter structures:
- Wedding: Preparation, Ceremony, Portraits, Reception, Boudoir
- Commercial: Mood board, Hero shots, Lifestyle, Product details
- School portrait day: Class 3A, Class 3B, Class 4A
- Mini sessions: Family Nowak, Family Kowalski, Family Davies
You can also nest sections inside chapters. These nested sections are called sub-chapters. Sub-chapters are useful for volume photography where a chapter represents a class and each sub-chapter represents a single student.
Why one gallery instead of many¶
Other gallery platforms push you to create separate galleries when different people should see different content. For a wedding that means one gallery for the couple and another for the guests, two galleries to manage, two links to share, two sets of uploads to keep in sync.
Artilio solves this with per-chapter visibility. One gallery, multiple access roles, each role seeing only the chapters you allow. The couple gets everything. The 200 guests get ceremony and reception photos but not boudoir. School parents each get only their child's class.
One gallery. Many audiences. No duplication.
Practical tips¶
- Create chapters before uploading so photos land in the right place from the start.
- Use short chapter names, "Ceremony" not "Wedding ceremony at St. Mary's church".
- Chapters reorder by drag-and-drop. Put the strongest chapter first.
- You can rename a chapter after upload, photo positions are preserved.