Images

Images refer to photographs, illustrations, drawings, and paintings. Good Gallery provides powerful tools for managing and displaying your images with optimal quality across all devices.

Prepare Images

Follow these instructions to prepare your original images for Good Gallery.

Filenames

Original filenames are not displayed to website visitors or search engines. When images are uploaded, new public filenames are created automatically using randomized letter strings (e.g. qnvkdzxr.jpg).

Changing the original filenames to randomized letters ensures that dated, awkward, or damaging file names are never accidentally displayed on your website.

You can modify the random letter public filenames by changing your image Titles in Image Settings.

Unique Names

Original image filenames must be unique in Good Gallery. Two images cannot possess the same filename.

For example, you cannot upload an image named 001.jpg to one folder and then upload a different image also named 001.jpg to another folder.

Prevent duplicate filename issues by adding a prefix to images (e.g. weddings-xxx.jpg) or by creating unique filenames for all images.

Note: Filenames should have .jpg extensions, cannot contain illegal characters or symbols, and must begin with a letter or number.

Sort Order

Original filenames indicate initial sorting positions in Folders. Images are initially sorted in ascending order by filename. After uploading images to Folders, you can change the sort order manually.

Include leading zeros in filenames to maintain a consistent sorting method (e.g. wedding-001.jpg, wedding-002.jpg, ... wedding-009.jpg, wedding-010.jpg).

Note: Filenames should have .jpg extensions, cannot contain illegal characters or symbols, and must begin with a letter or number.

Image Dimensions

Good Gallery automatically resizes images. In other words, you do not need to resize image dimensions. Full-size images are preferred.

Good Gallery creates 130 resized versions of every image you upload. Each resized image is optimized for different browser viewports. These additional resized images are stored outside your allotted hosting storage at no additional charge.

Although images of any dimension are supported, images smaller than 3000 pixels on the longest side may not fill every browser viewport.

• Recommended dimension: 5,200 pixels on the horizontal axis and 3,000 pixels on the vertical axis
• Maximum recommended dimension: 10,000 pixels on the longest side

Note: Resizing original images may be required for photographers using modern medium format cameras. Uploading images smaller than the recommended sizes may result in a less-than-optimal presentation for some visitors in some circumstances.

Quality Settings

Image quality settings affect upload speeds, resize wait times, and your online storage quota.

• Photoshop: Choose a quality setting no higher than 10
• Lightroom: Choose a quality value no higher than 84%

Exporting using higher quality values creates larger file sizes without an appreciable improvement in image quality.

DPI / PPI

Dots Per Inch (DPI) and Pixels Per Inch (PPI) settings do not affect website images. Set your image DPI to 10, 72, 96, 240, 300, or any other value.

Sharpening

Sharpening values for images are subjective.

• Photoshop: Choose Unsharp Mask. Set the sharpening Amount to 130% and the Radius to 0.4 pixels. Modify further if required.
• Lightroom: Set the Output Sharpening to Sharpen for Screen with the Amount set to Standard. Modify further if required.

Color Space

All images should be saved in the sRGB color space. Using the sRGB color space ensures a consistent display quality across all browsers and devices.

Images not saved in the sRGB color space may appear washed out or colors may be inaccurately displayed. In some cases, the images may appear as broken images in some browsers.

Warning: The sRGB color space must be embedded in all images to ensure consistency across all browsers and displays.

File Size

The maximum file size supported is 20MB. Using the recommended Quality Settings, your original JPG files should be smaller than 10MB.

File Types

All image formats uploaded to Good Gallery are automatically converted to JPG and WebP. Other formats are not supported.