Albums & viewing

Your photos, shown big.

Clean albums that put the photo first. Guests open your work large, and the full Original is there when they want every pixel.

Alpine Lake at First Light: snow peaks glowing above a sea of clouds at dawn — Alpine Lake at First Light, from the Lakes & Light album.

Made for looking.

A frame from Alpine Lake Highlight: a still mountain lake

Clean for guests.

Guests see your photos, not your editing tools.

Compare the views

Mountain Light, a sunlit mountain landscape

Big when it counts.

Five viewing sizes, from Small to XX-Large. You choose which ones guests can open.

Try the sizes

Every pixel, on request.

Offer the Original, the exact file you uploaded. Web copies never touch it.

About the Original

Video in the same album.

Clips play right beside your photos, up to 4K and 8K.

Video details

Five sizes. Plus the Original.

Guests switch sizes right under the photo. Try it.

Mountain Light at the selected viewing size

Large, usually the first size guests see800 × 531 · fits within 800 × 600

Mountain Light. Each size fits within the limits set in Edit Album. Image Properties shows a photo’s exact sizes.

How it works.

Create an album
Give it a title. Your uploads go into it.
Upload
Add photos and video. ImageEvent builds the viewing sizes for you.
Choose sizes
In Edit Album, pick the sizes guests can open, including the Original.
Check, then share
Use View as Guest to see it their way, then send the link.

All the options.

Every setting, with step-by-step how-tos.

Viewing sizes and Other SizesChoose which sizes guests can open, and which one opens first.

Open your album and click Edit Album.
Under Enlarge sizes, check the sizes you want to offer. Check all of them for every zoom size.
Pick a Default enlarge size. Large (800×600) is the usual choice.
Click Update Album.

Guests then see Other Sizes under each photo and can switch without leaving the page.

Small: 320×240
Medium: 640×480
Large: 800×600; usual default
X-Large: 1024×768
XX-Large: 1280×960
Original Image: full uploaded file

Edit Album settings with Enlarge sizes checkboxes and the Default enlarge size menu — Owner's ViewEdit Album. Enlarge sizes and Default enlarge size.

The Original and web qualityShow the full file. Keep web copies crisp.

Check Original Image in Enlarge sizes and guests can open the exact file you uploaded. It fills the browser window.

Small through XX-Large are lighter copies ImageEvent builds for fast viewing. You choose how crisp they are:

Open Global Settings.
Under Uploading, set JPEG quality (generated sizes): Smallest files, Normal, Higher quality, or Highest quality.

As the setting says, it “affects compressed copies the site builds for the web, not your originals.”

Coastal Passage, a mountain landscape, open large in the photo viewer — Owner's ViewOpen large, edge to edge.

Owner's View and Guest ViewYour editing tools are only for you.

Click View as Guest at the top of any album to see exactly what guests see. Click View as Owner to switch back.

Guest View of an album: the breadcrumb, title, album details, and photos, with no editing buttons — Guest ViewGuests see the breadcrumb, the album details, and your photos, with none of your editing tools.

Owner's View of the same album: the Album Bar and Image Bar above the photos, with a pencil edit icon under each thumbnail — Owner's ViewYou also see the Album Bar, the Image Bar, and a pencil edit icon on each photo.

Album settingsThumbnail size, the grid, titles, slideshow, and more.

Everything below lives in Edit Album and applies to that album. Check Save these as defaults for the next album to reuse your choices.

Thumbnail size

Small 1x: 113×85
Medium 1.5x: 169×126
Large 2x: 226×169
X-Large 3x: 339×252
XX-Large 4x: 452×339

Also in Edit Album

Columns and rows: Auto fits your screen, or set them yourself.
Slideshow on open, Photo titles, and Descriptions under thumbnails.
Photo comments and Guestbook / email.
Guests edit titles/descriptions.
Right click disable, which helps limit saving.

The Edit album form with details, options, thumbnail size, columns and rows, enlarge sizes, and privacy — Owner's ViewEdit album. One form for the whole album.

Video in your albumsClips play right beside your photos.

Videos sit in the album grid with your photos and play in place, with speed (0.2× to 2×), fullscreen, and picture-in-picture.

ImageEvent prepares viewing sizes from what you upload. See how video sizes follow your upload. Upload an HDR or Dolby Vision clip and ImageEvent always makes an HDR10 version too.

Open Video Properties to see the sizes for any clip.

Client Story in Motion playing in an album, with its title and description below — Owner's ViewClient Story in Motion, playing in its album.

Video Properties listing the delivery sizes for a clip, each with Copy URL, Download, and Open — **Video Properties.** The sizes for that clip.

Image PropertiesEvery size, with its link, dimensions, and file size.

Open Image Properties from any photo to see each size, from Thumbnail to Original, with its dimensions and file size.

Copy URL, Copy, Download, or Open any size.
Ready-made HTML and message-board code for the photo. More in Embed Album.

Image Properties for Coastal Passage: the photo’s details, with the size of its Thumbnail, Large, and Original — **Image Properties.** The size of each version.

The classic lookPrefer the original ImageEvent layout? Switch once.

New albums are ready to share as they are. If you prefer the classic ImageEvent look, change it once for your whole account. It applies to the albums you have and any you add later.

Open Global Settings.
Go to Layout & navigation → Default layout.
Choose Original.

Viewing sizes, Other Sizes, and the Original file work the same in either look.

Global Settings, Layout and navigation section, with the Default layout setting — Owner's ViewGlobal Settings. Default layout.

The same album in the Original layout — Guest ViewThe Original layout. Same album, classic layout.

Color themes151 ready-made themes for albums, folders, and Home.

In your album, click Personalize.
Choose a theme under Select Color Theme. The preview updates as you go.
Want it for every new album? Check Set as default album colors.

The same 151 themes are there for folders and your Home page. Or choose Custom to set your own fonts, borders, and colors. Try a theme.

Album Personalize page with the Select Color Theme list and a live preview — Owner's ViewPersonalize. Pick a theme and see it right away.