ImageEvent

Themes & settings

Make it yours.

Pick from 151 color themes for your albums, folders, and Home page. Then set your defaults once, for the whole account.

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Northshore Photo — Lakes & Light

A refined showcase of weddings, portraits, landscapes, architecture, and cinematic light from Northshore Photo.

Mountain Light
Mountain Light
Alpine Lake at First Light
Alpine Lake at First Light
Client Story in Motion
Client Story in Motion
Geometry of Light
Geometry of Light

Showing Midnight slate, one of 151. Background and title colors come from each theme’s preview in Personalize.

Set it once.

Mountain Light, a sunlit mountain landscape

151 themes, or Custom.

Dark, light, pastel, mono, and seasonal. Or mix your own colors and fonts.

Color themes
Alpine Lake at First Light

One look for every album.

Page width, slideshow controls, and the classic look, set once for all albums.

Layout
A frame from Alpine Lake Highlight: a still mountain lake

Guest controls.

Sharing, downloads, and guest email each get their own switch.

Guest controls
Geometry of Light

Your header and footer.

Add your own header and footer to your pages.

Header and footer

How it works.

  1. Open Personalize

    On an album, a folder, or your Home page.

  2. Pick a theme

    Watch the preview change as you choose.

  3. Make it the default

    New albums and folders start in that look.

  4. Fine-tune the rest

    Layout, guest controls, and upload defaults live in Global Settings (also linked from Tools).

All the options.

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

Color themes151 named themes for albums, folders, and Home.
  1. Open Personalize on an album, a folder, or your Home page.
  2. Choose a theme under Select Color Theme. The preview updates as you go.
  3. Click Save. Undo and Go back are there, too.
  4. Check Set as default album colors or Set as default folder colors so new ones start in that look.

The same list is there for albums, folders, and Home: dark, light, pastel, mono, and seasonal looks. A few names: Midnight slate, Forest night, Graphite rose, Laguna copper, Aurora mint, Pacific drift, Coastal haze, Golden hour, Paper white, Editorial B&W, and Holiday Colors.

Album Personalize with the Select Color Theme list open
Owner's ViewSelect Color Theme on an album.
Personalize Home Page with the theme list
Owner's ViewThe same list for Home.
Custom colors and fontsMix your own look.

Choose Custom, then set it up your way:

  • Select Font: Verdana, Georgia, Helvetica Neue, and more.
  • Select Borders for Thumbnails.
  • Select Element Colors, then pick from the color grid.
  • A live Preview as you work.
Personalize Home Page with Colors and theme, fonts, borders, element colors, and a preview
Owner's ViewColors & theme.
Theme previewsSix real previews from Personalize.

These are the previews ImageEvent shows while you choose. The swatches at the top of this page take their colors from them.

Personalize preview in the Midnight slate theme
Owner's ViewMidnight slate.
Personalize preview in the Forest night theme
Owner's ViewForest night.
Personalize preview in the Aurora mint theme
Owner's ViewAurora mint.
Personalize preview in the Graphite rose theme
Owner's ViewGraphite rose.
Personalize preview in the Golden hour theme
Owner's ViewGolden hour.
Personalize preview in the Paper white theme
Owner's ViewPaper white.
ToolsAccount-wide jobs, in one place.

The Tools page gathers the jobs that work across your whole account. Find it in your home menu, or open Tools.

  • Prints on all albums: Enable all or Turn all off for every album in one pass. You can still change any album in Edit Album. About guest ordering
  • Default album template: Edit template sets the starting options for every album you create from now on.
  • Global Settings: Open settings for layout, guest controls, and upload defaults. Layout · Guest controls · Uploading
  • Header & Footer: Edit replaces the ImageEvent header and footer with your own HTML. How to add them
  • Print order history: View orders shows past print orders, their status, and shipping.
  • Address book: Open to manage the contacts you use for invitations and sharing. About the address book
  • Download your files: the Original of every file in your account, on your computer. Full Archive
  • Print cart: Open cart to review items, shipping speed, and check out.
  • Prints & pricing: Browse live sizes and prices from the three labs.
The Tools page: Prints on all albums, Default album template, Global Settings, Header and Footer, Print order history, Address book, Download your files, Print cart, and Prints and pricing
Owner's ViewTools. Account-wide jobs.
Layout and navigationHow every album looks and moves for guests.

Open Global Settings from the home menu or from Tools. Under How pages look:

  • Album layout: Enhanced, or Original for the classic ImageEvent look. Guest Uploads works with the Enhanced layout.
  • Page width: Centered or Full browser width.
  • When a guest opens a photo: for example, Auto.
  • Slideshow buttons: for example, Thumbnails & large photo.
  • Camera info (EXIF): for example, Summary.
Global Settings How pages look section
Owner's ViewHow pages look.
Albums and guestbookSlideshows, guestbook, visit counts, and your copyright line.
  • When a guest opens a photo: Auto (Pop-up on computers, one photo per page on phones), Pop-up window, One photo per page, or Large photo + thumbs. About the Auto viewer
  • Slideshow speed: for example, 5 seconds.
  • Guestbook position, Messages shown, and Guestbook email alerts.
  • View counts.
  • Search engines.
  • Copyright text (optional), such as “© 2026 Northshore Photo · All rights reserved”.

How pages look also has Size under thumbs and Photo numbers under thumbs.

Guest controlsSharing, downloads, and guest email, each on its own.
  • Sharing tools for guests: guests can share the album link, send invitations, and share on social media.
  • Guest downloads: guests pick sizes to download. It’s turned off for albums where right-click save is disabled.
  • Guest email-a-photo.
Global Settings guest and upload options
Owner's ViewGuest controls.
Uploading defaultsOrder, matching names, and web quality.
  • Where new uploads go: Start of album or End of album.
  • Duplicate file names: Replace existing or Keep both (rename new).
  • Web JPEG quality: Smallest files, Normal, Higher quality, or Highest quality. It affects web copies, not your originals.
  • FTP folder creation.
Global Settings Uploading section
Owner's ViewUploading.
Header and footerYour own header and footer on your pages.
  1. On Home, click Change Header & Footer.
  2. Set Enable this header to Yes and add your Header HTML, or check Use HTML editor.
  3. Do the same for the footer, then click Submit.
Header and footer page with Enable this header, Header HTML, and the footer fields
Owner's ViewHeader and footer.
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