Your gallery
Manage your individual photos — upload, show or hide them, and add captions, locations, and camera details.
On this page
The gallery is the collection of individual photos on your public site, shown as a grid. It is separate from your stories, though story photos can appear here too.
How the gallery works
Every photo on Photostories is its own item. A photo is either a standalone upload (added straight to the gallery) or a story photo (used inside a story). Both can appear in your public gallery — you have complete control of which photos can appear on your public site.
Uploading photos
In the studio gallery, upload photos directly. An upload starts hidden — it's yours to keep, but nobody sees it until you show it (below). You can remove a standalone photo at any time, which deletes it for good.
Showing and hiding photos
Each photo has a visibility toggle (the eye icon). This is the single switch that decides whether a photo appears in your public gallery — independent of whether the story it belongs to is published.
Every photo starts hidden, whether you uploaded it here or added it to a story. Nothing reaches your public gallery until you turn its eye on.
The studio gallery is the one place gallery membership is decided. Saving a story never changes which of its photos are shown, so your choices here always stick.
Stories and the gallery are separate
Where a photo appears is decided by two separate things — a photo's place in your gallery has nothing to do with whether its story is published:
- Inside a story — every photo in a published story is visible to anyone reading it. While a story is a draft or unpublished, the whole story and its photos stay hidden.
- In your gallery — a photo shows here only when its own gallery toggle is on, whether or not the story is published.
Adding a photo to a story does not put it in your public gallery, and neither does uploading one — every photo starts hidden, so you choose which ones your gallery shows.
| Story published | Story draft or unpublished | |
|---|---|---|
| Gallery toggle on | In the story and your gallery | In your gallery only |
| Gallery toggle off | In the story only | Hidden everywhere |
How many photos fit
The gallery has two limits on the Free plan, and Pro removes both:
- 15 photos shown — how many can be public at once. Standalone uploads and story photos you've opted in both take a slot, because both appear in the same grid. When it's full, hide a photo to make room for another.
- 15 uploads kept — how many standalone photos you can hold, shown or hidden. Hiding an upload doesn't free a slot; delete it if you want to upload something else.
Photos inside your stories are counted separately, against a per-story limit — writing a photo-heavy story never uses up your gallery.
Captions and locations
Give any photo a caption — it shows under the photo and serves as its alt text. You can also tag a photo with a location, which is what places it on your map.
Camera and gear
Each photo can carry the gear it was shot on (this information is stored in a photo's metadata). You set this in the same Image details panel as the caption and location — available from the studio gallery and the story editor — and it's shown to visitors in the photo viewer (open a photo and use the info button in the corner).
- Camera — pick your camera body from the list, or type your own.
- Lens — e.g. RF 50mm F1.2 L.
- Aperture — the f-stop, e.g. f/1.8.
- Shutter — e.g. 1/250s.
- ISO — e.g. 400.
- Film stock — for film cameras, pick the stock you shot on (e.g. Portra 400). This turns on once you choose a film camera.