A photograph on your account has always had jobs to do. One is a headshot. One leads the slideshow at the top of your home page. The rest fill the gallery. Until now those jobs were a switch here and a checkbox there, and it was easy to end up with a picture that was switched on and yet nowhere a visitor could see it.
The Photos screen works in boards now.
Three fixed boards, plus your own categories
Under each photograph's description is a row of chips, opened with the tag icon beside it. The three fixed boards are orange: Gallery, Slideshow and Headshots. Your own categories are blue. A picture can be on several at once, and the chip row tells you at a glance where it shows up.
There is no Active switch any more, because there is nothing left for it to do. A picture is live while it is on at least one board or in a category. A row with an empty chip line reads Unused, and that is what off looks like now. One less thing to remember, and no more pictures that are live and invisible at the same time.
A category lives inside the Gallery
Filing a picture in one of your categories puts it in the Gallery at the same time, and taking it out of the Gallery clears its category. That keeps the one thing that used to go wrong from going wrong: a photograph sitting in Red Carpet while being nowhere a visitor can reach.
Slideshow and Headshots stand on their own
A picture that is only a slideshow image, or only a headshot, is live without being one of the gallery thumbnails. That is usually what you want. The wide shot that looks right across the top of your home page is rarely the one you want fifth in a grid.
Order is per board
Drag inside a board to set the order for that board, the same way dragging works everywhere else in the admin. The Gallery's order is the one your design reads for the grid, and each category keeps an order of its own, so a picture can come first in one place and last in another.
Photo Credit is a field
If a photographer should be named, there is a field for it. Type the name and your website prints it the same way under every picture, on every design. It used to be typed into the caption by hand, which meant "Photo Credit: Kyle Dane" on one picture and "Photo credit, Aftab Asghar." on the next. Existing captions were left exactly as they were written, so nothing you typed has been rearranged.
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