Writing a story

A story is a photo essay: a cover image, a title, and a body that mixes text and photos. You write and edit stories in the studio editor.

Start a story

From the studio, choose Write to open a blank story. Everything you add is kept locally until you save — there is no autosave, so save your work as you go.

The cover and title

Every story opens with a cover image and a title. Upload a cover photo and write a headline over it; you can drag the cover to reposition it vertically so the most important part stays in frame.

The cover doubles as your story's thumbnail wherever it appears — on your stories list and across Photostories.

Adding photos and text

In the body you can add paragraphs, quotes, dividers, photos, and a map. A few things worth knowing:

• Reorder images by dragging them (on touch devices, use the up and down arrows).
• Place up to three photos side by side to form a row.
• Give any photo a caption, which also becomes its alt text.

How many photos fit

Each story holds up to 10 photos on the Free plan, counting the cover. Pro removes the limit entirely.

This budget belongs to the story alone. Filling your gallery never uses it up, and a photo-heavy story never eats into how many photos you can show in your gallery — the two are counted separately.

Drafts and publishing

New stories start as drafts — private to you. When you are ready, Publish makes the story public on your site.

A published story can be unpublished at any time, which returns it to a draft. You can also delete a story, which removes it and its photos for good.

Editing later

Open any story from the studio to edit it. Renaming a story never changes its link — each story has a permanent address based on its id, so shared links keep working even after you rewrite the title.