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.

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.

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.
Layout and navigationHow every album looks and moves for guests.

In Global Settings → Layout & navigation:

  • Default layout: keep the standard look, or choose Original for the classic ImageEvent look.
  • Page width: for example, Use full browser width.
  • Guestbook placement: for example, Below thumbnails.
  • Jump to other albums: show or hide.
  • Slideshow controls: for example, Thumbnail + enlarged.
  • Show EXIF data?: for example, Summary.
Global Settings Layout and navigation section
Owner's ViewLayout & navigation.
Albums and guestbookSlideshows, guestbook, visit counts, and your copyright line.
  • How albums open: for example, Photo.
  • Seconds between slides: for example, 5.
  • Guestbook entries to show and Email when someone signs.
  • Show visit counts.
  • How search sites list your pages.
  • Copyright line (optional), such as “© 2026 Northshore Photo · All rights reserved”.

Photo & thumbnails adds File size on thumbnails and Numbers under thumbnails.

Guest controlsSharing, downloads, and guest email, each on its own.
  • Guest sharing: guests can share the album link, show a QR code, send invitations, and share on social media.
  • Let guests download: guests pick sizes to download. It’s turned off for albums where right-click save is disabled.
  • Let guests email photos.
Global Settings guest and upload options
Owner's ViewGuest controls.
Uploading defaultsOrder, matching names, and web quality.
  • New photos slot in: for example, From last number.
  • Same filename as an old file: for example, Rename new file.
  • JPEG quality (generated sizes): Smallest files, Normal, Higher quality, or Highest quality. It affects web copies, not your originals.
  • FTP new folders.
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.