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, headings, quotes, dividers, and photos. 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.

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A published story can be unpublished at any time, which returns it to a draft.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.