It starts with naming and describing a gallery, then searching the rich trove of Getty Images photography. Choose the photo size, orientation, and other filtering attributes you prefer, then use the simple gallery controls to add and sequence all the photos you want.

Once filled, you can easily publish your gallery by grabbing embed code for use on your site and by seamlessly integrating with Daylife-hosted gallery pages. (You can customize their look & feel, domain name, advertising units, metrics, and other features.)

You can change the contents of any gallery at any time, and you can also automate the gallery by adding a search query and letting it populate itself with new images as they enter the system. You can also easily and permanently add ones you want to keep from that automated stream.

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Australia: 1 800 500 141

Other regions visit Getty Images’ "Contact Us" page to find your local office:
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In your "Settings" section, you can apply your own domain to SmartGalleries pages. There are two options for this:

1. Use a SmartGalleries Subdomain

   You can fill in the blank field with any alphanumeric string (a-z, 0-9) that isn't already in use (you'll see an error if you enter a string that someone's already using). For example, you can enter "sports.smartgalleries.net" and use it, as long as someone hasn't already claimed "sports" for their smartgalleries.net subdomain.

2. Use your own, custom domain

   This lets you apply any domain you own to SmartGalleries, which will override the "xxxx.smartgalleries.net" domain structure completely. Here are the steps:
   1. Create a Cname DNS entry to point to "domain.smartgalleries.net". (Learn more about Cnames here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cname)
   2. Once the DNS entry has propagated (which could take up to 3 days, but typically is only a few minutes for a new domain) you can update to that domain in the "Settings" tab under "Use your own, custom domain".

Once you switch to your new domain, the change is immediate and your users will then be visiting [yourdomain.com] instead of [example.smartgalleries.net]. Access to that old domain will be cut off, so be sure to update any hyperlinks that use it.

Just click the “CREATE A GALLERY” tab on the home page of the SmartGalleries site. Give your gallery a name and a description, then enter a search term in the “Find Photos” field. Your search results will come up, and then you just click the icon under the photos you want to add. They’ll appear in the gallery pane at the bottom of the page (you can also drag & drop images to the pane). From there, just explore the customization options and have fun making galleries.

These galleries were created in-house by Daylife editors, and are meant to be used as templates, idea generators for your own gallery creation, or just for inspirational time-killing.

Click the “Grab This” button on any of these galleries to add it to your collection. From there, you can edit it at will and publish it to your site just as you could a gallery you made from scratch.

SmartGalleries search supports several simple options that can help you get the results you want. The tips below can help you get the best possible results.

• Default Search Behavior

  The default behavior for SmartGalleries searches with more than one word is to put an invisible AND operator between each word. So if you typed the following:

  Academy Awards

  ...into the search box, the system will read it as “Academy AND Awards" and only return results that include both of those words. This works the same no matter how many single words you enter for a search. So if you entered the following:

  Barack Obama Joe Biden

  …then our system will return only results that have all 4 of those words somewhere in the caption or metadata.

• Quotation Marks

  Phrases in quotation marks will return only instances of that exact phrase:

  "Alex Rodriguez"

  ...will return only results for Alex Rodriguez, not anyone else named Alex or Rodriguez. You can also use quoted phrases along with other terms, such as:

  "Alex Rodriguez" Yankees

  ...which will find images that include both Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees (or at least captions mentioning both).

• AND & OR

  AND is the default operator, but you can also use OR. You can also include “AND” even where it would otherwise be a default, if it helps you write your queries. (This will not harm the search behavior.)

  If you wanted to find articles on Brangelina, you could type:

  “Brad Pitt” “Angelina Jolie”

  …which would find results that include both of them, since the default operator between words and phrases is AND. But if you wanted to find images of either one of the two rather than both, you would type:

  “Brad Pitt” OR “Angelina Jolie”

• Grouping Terms

  Terms can be grouped using parentheses. This can help when constructing more complicated searches:

  (nuclear weapons) OR plutonium

  …would return images with captions (or other metadata) that include both the words nuclear and weapons (but not necessarily in that order) or an image caption that has the word plutonium. In other words, the above search query could return 3 different images that had one each of the following sentences in their captions:

  “The G8 is meeting to discuss the spread of nuclear weapons.”
  “Weapons, including both conventional and nuclear, are banned under the current rules.”
  “Plutonium is one of the most heavily regulated substances in the world.”

• NOT

  You can require that a term be excluded from a search result by using the operator NOT. In the example below, image metadata must contain the word Obama but must not contain the phrase “White House”.

  Obama NOT “White House”

• Other Combinations

  You can use all of these rules in conjunction to create complex and highly precise queries.

SmartGalleries offers what we call a “faceted search” feature. This lets you refine a search results set according to a number of contextual parameters, so you can more finely target images within a wide set.

Facets include information on photo contents like the event at which a photo was taken, the genders of the persons in the photo, or their ethnicities. But facets also include information about the format of the photos themselves, including size, resolution, and orientation (e.g., horizontal vs. vertical).

Available facets will vary according to your search query and the images it returns, so you’ll have different options for different photo sets (and for images from different photo providers, all of whom use different kinds and amounts of image metadata).

Select the gallery you want to edit in the gallery pane pull-down (the strip appears at the bottom of each page). You’ll see the gallery you selected, and then just use the search box to find more images (or edit the captions for ones already in the gallery). You can also change the image sequence by dragging and dropping in the Pane, or on a full browser page by clicking “Edit This Gallery in Full Page Mode”.

Select a gallery in the gallery pane pull-down, then click “Gallery Actions”. Select “Delete This Gallery” in that set of options, confirm the deletion in the resulting dialog box, and the gallery is gone.

Yes – in the gallery pane, go to the photo whose caption you want to edit and click the “edit” icon (the pencil-with-lines one) beneath it. In the resulting pop-up you’ll be able to edit the caption, give the image a title, and – if you want to later – restore the original caption.

Galleries can be exported as widgets for embedding on your site, and they can be housed on Daylife-hosted gallery pages that you can link to.

The widgets can be fit to the size you need for your site. The gallery pages are highly configurable and fit seamlessly into your site – you can tailor them to your own look & feel, install your own advertising units, control the Javascript header, add analytics code, and more. They blend right into your site, adding serious depth and breadth.

Daylife provides powerful, easy to use editing controls, as well as full control over CSS in relevant sections. This lets you customize the SmartGalleries experience for your users whether you’re a skilled site developer or a web-publishing novice.

You can customize the height and width on-the-fly using the fields provided, and you can do further customization with a CSS ID (that’s the CSS attribute that wraps your content in HTML – this is recommended for experienced CSS users only). Then click “Get Embed Code”, copy the code itself, then place it into your site’s HTML for publication.

The Daylife-hosted gallery pages have many editable aspects – virtually the entire page is configurable to match your look, feel, advertising needs, and URL structure. Daylife’s powerful editing console lets you achieve the results you want whatever your skill level.

To edit these pages, click the “PUBLISH GALLERIES” tab and click the “CONFIGURE PAGE” button, then select the gallery whose pages you want to edit. You’ll see a left-hand panel with configuration options, which are as follows:

• HEADER: Use this to edit the header color & transparency, background image, text, or take full control by adding your own HTML in the field provided.
• BODY: Edit colors, background images, positioning, and other attributes.
• ADS: enter the advertising HTML/Javascript code you’ve received from your ad provider, and your ads will render on the page.
• ANALYTICS: Just insert the code and click “Update”, and it’ll be active. You’ll be able to track the metrics on your usual site analytics dashboard.

SmartGalleries hosted pages work on a template model, so any edits you make to your pages under the “Publish Galleries” tab (specifically the “Configure Page” section) will apply to all galleries made under your account.

This lets you make a single set of edits to cover all your gallery pages; one customization effort will make all your pages match your site’s look & feel. You can edit these settings any time.

You can hand-pick images for your gallery, or you can set a search query and let it populate your gallery for you. You have full control over the query, and you can permanently add or remove any images found by your search query.

To use this feature, select a gallery and click the “Automate this Gallery” link in the gallery pane. Click the checkbox to activate the automation, and enter the other required information (your search query, quantity of images desired, and the date range from which the automated query will draw). Save this information, close the pane, and your gallery is automated.

To edit the automatic selections, just select the relevant gallery and re-order, delete, or individually edit the photos.

Both the site-wide search bar and the gallery automation search functions accept Boolean queries – you can use operators like “AND”, “OR”, and other standard search string words, and construct complex queries to get the results you want.

This feature uses our SmartContext technology to automatically scan the captions of your gallery images, and then it displays galleries related to yours. You can activate this feature by navigating to the “Publish Galleries” tab, then clicking the “Body” link under “Configure Page”..