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Settings

The Settings tab holds the Gallery’s details, its room, and its video preview.

Section titled “The Gallery”
  • Show: the Gallery’s title, shown on the doors, in the Main Console, and in its address.
  • Artist: your name as written on the doors.
  • Age rating: Everyone, 14+, or 18+. A visitor must confirm their age to enter a Gallery rated 14+ or 18+, and a Gallery rated 18+ is not listed in the public index.
  • Loading image: the picture shown while the Gallery loads. Use the site’s returns to the default.

Room

Section titled “Room”
  • Wall, Floor, and Ceiling: the room’s colors. Besides the neutrals there are eleven pastels: Butter yellow, Apricot, Soft red, Blush pink, Lilac, Lavender, Powder blue, Aqua, Mint, Sage green, and Pistachio.
  • Lens: the view’s lens, wider or longer. Visitors can change it with [ ].
  • Auto-play Interval: how long the guided tour rests at each piece, in seconds.
  • Allow visitors to change colors: lets visitors to the published Gallery step through the colors with W, F, and C. It is off unless you tick it, and while it is off the visitor shortcuts do not mention the keys.

Video Preview

Section titled “Video Preview”

A video preview is a short walk through your Gallery, twelve seconds, that visitors see while it opens, playing round and round in place of the loading image. It is filmed through a 28 mm lens, whatever lens you have chosen, in three shots of four seconds: a walk along your longest run of pieces on an outside wall, looking along it; a walk into the corner with the most of your work in view; and a turn on the spot near the middle of the room. It keeps clear of chairs and tables close by, and begins inside, so the street and the doors stay a surprise.

  • When you first publish a Gallery, you are asked whether to record one. It takes about half a minute; the Gallery is published either way.
  • Update Video Preview records a new one whenever you like. Save to publish it. Saving the Gallery never records a new one by itself.

Recording needs Chrome, Edge, or Safari. The video counts toward your storage. While the video plays, the Gallery goes on loading behind it, so that its walls are hung when visitors arrive; it waits no more than twenty seconds. The loading image is shown only if the video cannot play. Visitors whose browser asks to save data see the loading image instead, and a rated Gallery plays its video only once a visitor has confirmed their age.