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title: "Creating a Photo Gallery"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Creating a Photo Gallery

Log into your ViewLift TOOLS account. From the top horizontal menu choose CONTENT. Under the Content section, click on **PHOTOGALLERY** from the secondary menu:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28541%29.png)

To start a new photo gallery, click on the + **ADD PHOTOGALLERY** key:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28542%29.png)

This will open up the template page in full view:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28543%29.png)

Each field with a red asterisk (*) denotes a required field. These are minimum requirements of completion before you can publish your photo gallery. They include title, permaliink, author, description and images.

The **TITLE** field should be editorialized using upper and lower case style rules. Best practices suggest that you remove the numeric identifier auto-generated by the creation of the article from this field.

The **PERMALINK** should following the following guidelines:

no spaces or special characters, with the exception of underscore (_) or dash (-). We suggest dashes as a best practice. all alpha characters should be lower-case Best practices suggest that you remove the numeric identifier auto-generated by the creation of the article from this field. No white spaces should exist before or after the permalink a slash character (/) must always be the first character in a permalink Feel free to use SEO keywords in your permalink as you see fit. The **AUTHOR** field is customer-facing as photo galleries should get either proper name or staff attribution.

The **IMAGES** module is so you can set a cover image default for your gallery. This gets accessed by clicking on the **MANAGE IMAGES** key:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28544%29.png)

Once the image module is open you can now upload or search for images to add to the article in the image repository:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28545%29.png)

For photo galleries, your cover image should be added to the 16:9 (1920 x 1080) as this is the minimum requirement for the cover. If you have use cases to present a 32:9 carousel of multiple photo galleries, then you could also cut / upload for that image spec as well.

Left-click on the **PHOTO GALLERY** module to expand this section:

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28546%29.png)

From here, you can drag-and-drop images you wish to upload and arrange in your gallery. You can also browse/search inside the image repository to add images to the gallery you wish to organize.

Once images have been added to the left vertical pane, you can drag and drop to order/reorder them as you see fit.

![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/15e0c142-c823-4c77-a8e8-9d32ca937982/Images/Documentation/image%28547%29.png)

We recommend 16:9 landscape images as a best practice, but you can also include portrait images as you see fit. Any portrait aspect radio images will be presented with pillar boxing on the left and right vertical panes.

- **Related Links, ViewLift imagery:**

[Asset Image Management & Specs](/v1/docs/asset-image-management-specs)

[Video Image Size Reference](/v1/docs/video-image-size-reference)

[Tips for Saving Images for Web](/v1/docs/tips-for-saving-images-for-web)