Photos
Everything happens on the Photos page of your admin.
Uploading
Section titled “Uploading”Click Upload photos and pick as many files as you like — JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 200 MB each. Uploads run in the background, so you can keep working while they finish.
For each photo FrameRoost keeps your original file and makes a web-sized display copy and a thumbnail, which is what visitors see. The copies have your camera’s metadata (including location) removed; the original is stored privately and is never shown or downloadable. All three count toward your storage.
Choosing what’s public
Section titled “Choosing what’s public”New photos are not public. Your public gallery only shows photos you feature — click the heart on a photo to feature it, and again to take it out. That way you can upload a whole shoot and pick your keepers at your own pace.
Hero images
Section titled “Hero images”Your home page opens on a full-width hero image, chosen at random from the ones you pick each time someone visits. Click the wallpaper icon (next to the heart) to add a photo to the rotation. Pick a few wide shots that look good behind your site name.
Captions and tags
Section titled “Captions and tags”Open a photo to add a caption and tags. Tags help you (and your visitors) find things — by species, place, trip, whatever suits you — and they’re how private galleries pick photos automatically.
Finding and ordering
Section titled “Finding and ordering”The catalog can be filtered by tag, year, featured and hero, and sorted. With no filters on and the sort set to Manual order, drag tiles to reorder them: the order here is the order of your public gallery.
FrameRoost reads the date each photo was actually taken from its EXIF data and falls back to the upload date if there isn’t one. Photos added before this existed can pick up their real dates with Tools → Backfill dates from EXIF.
Watermarks
Section titled “Watermarks”Upload a watermark in Settings and it’s built into the pixels of every display copy at upload time, in the bottom-right corner.
- Photos uploaded before you added a watermark don’t have it yet: run Tools → Backfill watermarks once.
- Replaced or removed your watermark? Force re-watermark all photos rebuilds every display copy with the current one (or none). It takes longer.
Deleting
Section titled “Deleting”Deleting a photo removes the original and its copies, frees up the storage, and takes it out of any private gallery it was in.