Website theme

Open Settings › Website theme. Nine areas sit at the top. Each area shows the settings in numbered steps on the left and a live preview in your theme colours on the right.

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1. 1Areas: Designs, Shop style, Gallery layout, Watermark, Photo page, Cart, Checkout, Confirmation and Customer account.
2. 2Designs: the base design of your shop. The active theme carries Active. Live preview opens a theme to look at.
3. 3Save Settings: saves all areas at once.

Under Shop style you decide how buttons and cards look on the shop pages. Shop pages are the gallery, photo page, cart, checkout, confirmation and customer account. The home page and your own pages keep the theme buttons.

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1. 1Shop buttons: Automatic, As in the theme or Custom colours. Below it you see which colour the shop uses right now.
2. 2Shop pages on dark themes: Light (recommended) or Like the theme.
3. 3Preview page: photo page, cart, checkout or confirmation.
4. 4Edit theme buttons and colours in the Designer: opens the Design tab in the Shop designer.

• Automatic uses the theme button colour when it reads well on the light shop background. Otherwise a darker colour from your theme.
• Custom colours opens one more step: background, text and hover colour. If the text is hard to read, Pixalo warns you.
• Light makes the gallery, cart and checkout light and easy to read on dark themes. With a light theme both options look the same.

Under Gallery layout the Gallery studio opens. It decides how parents see the photos in the gallery. Hover over a step and the preview highlights the matching spot.

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1. 1Style: twelve styles in three groups: Classic, Playful and Special. Your theme’s default marks the style your theme comes with. Back to the theme default removes your choice again.
2. 2Columns: 2 to 6 on a computer (default 4), 1 or 2 on a phone (default 2). Tablets sit in between automatically.
3. 3Preview: sample photos in the chosen style. Computer and Phone switch the view.

The next steps in the Gallery studio control what parents see around the photos and in which order.

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1. 1What parents see: Favourites heart to save photos, Photo number with a fixed number per photo (the same as in the order) and Available until with the closing date of the gallery.
2. 2Order: Newest first, Oldest first or Alphabetical by filename. Group photos first always puts class and group photos at the top.
3. 3Width: Like the header or Full width on large screens.
4. 4Page band: the strip at the top with title and labels, on the gallery and the shop pages. You change background, line, label and shadow. Empty fields use the theme values.

The last three steps in the Gallery studio are about welcoming parents and about your files.

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1. 1Welcome: title (up to 80 characters) and text (up to 600 characters) above the photos. If the text stays empty, nothing shows. Photo count in the page band shows how many photos the gallery has.
2. 2Access and parents: Siblings in one gallery, Pre-registration and Email card in the gallery.
3. 3File names: Random (default) reveals neither child nor class. Readable builds the name from photo job, group and child. Applies to new uploads.

Without Siblings in one gallery, exactly one code applies per session. A new code resets the gallery and the cart. Codes from other photo jobs can never be combined.

• Siblings in one gallery: up to 5 access codes from the same photo job. One gallery, one cart, one shipment.
• Parent emails: With Pre-registration parents leave their email while the gallery is not open yet. The Email card asks for it in the open gallery when it is missing. An address is only stored after a click on the confirmation link. More under Online registration.

Instead of a single watermark, you have a library. Each card shows its watermark on a sample photo. Below it you see where it applies.

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1. 1Areas: Watermark is one of the nine areas in the website theme.
2. 2Watermark card: name, type, layout and usage. The star marks the Default. Click a card to show its watermark in the live preview.
3. 3New watermark: opens the editor. Up to 30 watermarks are possible.
4. 4Templates: five ready-made watermarks to start from. More in the next section.
5. 5Live watermark preview: the real preview image with the selected watermark.

A template is a ready-made watermark to adjust. It opens in the editor with your studio name already filled in. Nothing is saved until you click Save.

The editor opens in place of the library. You see every change right away in the live preview on the right, even before you save.

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1. 1Name: only for you, parents never see it. Use as default watermark makes it the default.
2. 2Type: Text or Image or logo. Text up to 100 characters. Add © puts the symbol in front of your text.
3. 3Layout: Tiled spreads the watermark across the whole photo. Position places it once at one of seven spots.
4. 4Sliders: font size, opacity, density and interference lines. The values are in the table.
5. 5Style: colour, angle and background.
6. 6Note: changes apply to new uploads right away. Existing previews stay until you update them in the photo job.
7. 7Live preview: shows your draft before you save.

For Image or logo you upload a file:

• A PNG with a transparent background works best. JPG and WebP work too.
• About 700 px wide, 5 MB at most.
• An outline or shadow keeps the logo visible on light and dark photos.

The Live watermark preview is not a mock-up. Pixalo creates the image with the same processing as your uploaded photos. Size, quality and watermark are real.

• Info line: dimensions, file size and JPEG quality, for example 667 × 1000 px · 96 KB · JPEG 80 %.
• Whole image and Actual size (100 %): at actual size you can check every detail.
• View: Computer or Mobile. With mobile protection on, the mobile view also shows the blurred half.
• Test copy protection shows for 4 seconds what parents see when they try to take a screenshot. Show notice opens the copyright notice once it is active.

Families never see the original, only a reduced preview. The step Image Resolution (Demo) sets its size. The originals stay untouched.

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1. 1Preview: longest edge: 600 to 1200 px. The same for portrait and landscape. Nothing is cropped.
2. 2JPEG quality: 30 to 100 %.

The same rule applies here: new uploads get the new size right away. After a change, every photo job with photos shows how many previews you can update.

The step Protection for previews has three switches. The live preview shows each one at once.

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1. 1Enable copy protection: blocks right-click and hides photos as soon as the window loses focus or Print Screen or Ctrl+P is pressed. Computer only.
2. 2Mobile: show only one half of the picture at a time: on phones and tablets one half is always blurred in the large view. Families switch with a button.
3. 3Copyright notice before the gallery: parents confirm a short notice once when they open the gallery. Default: off.

Custom text (optional): leave it empty for the standard text in the parents' language. Your own text appears exactly as written in every language, up to 600 characters. The confirmation applies per browser. If you change the text, the notice appears again.

The header of every photo job shows which watermark applies. A new photo job follows the default.

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1. 1Watermark: the name of the selected watermark. Click it to open the selection.
2. 2Previews: appears as soon as previews carry an old watermark. Update renews them.

1. 1Open the selection Click the watermark in the header. Watermark for this photo job opens.
2. 2Choose a watermark No watermark, the default watermark or one from your library. The preview uses a photo from this very job.
3. 3Apply Click Apply. New uploads get the watermark right away.

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1. 1Selection: the default watermark follows every later change of the default. A watermark from the library stays fixed. Manage watermarks takes you to the library.
2. 2Preview: a photo from this photo job with the selected watermark, with info line and Actual size (100 %).
3. 3Regenerate existing previews: renews previews that were already uploaded with the saved watermark. The number shows the affected photos. So choose first and click Apply.
4. 4Apply: saves the choice. Active as soon as you have changed something.

Previews that are already uploaded never change on their own. You decide per photo job whether and when.

• What makes an update necessary: an edited or deleted watermark, a new default, a new choice in the photo job or a changed image resolution.
• Where you see it: in the photo job header under Previews, for example 12 with old watermark.
• How to start: click Update and confirm with Update now.

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1. 1Update now: starts the renewal. The window shows the number and the estimated duration.

When parents open a photo, they see your products and packages next to it. Under Photo page you decide how this page looks. Which products exist is set under Products.

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1. 1Product cards: Two side by side (default) or One per row on large screens.
2. 2Package cards: six styles such as Classic, Showcase (default), Voucher or Receipt. Each card shows a small sketch.
3. 3Live preview: the photo page with your settings. Hover over a step and it highlights the matching spot.

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1. 1Discount label: five models for the discount on packages. Showcase and Stamp always show it. Show on all package styles adds it to the other styles too.
2. 2Texts: Headline (up to 80 characters), Subtitle (up to 160) and Note above the products (up to 300). Empty fields show the default text in the parents’ language.
3. 3Start and order: Show when opening picks the first selection, for example All or Bundles. Under Order under "All" you choose Packages first (default) or Single products first.

The last steps of the photo page control the large photo and extra features for parents.

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1. 1Photo: Photo stays in place while scrolling (on a computer) and Arrows on the photo to the next or previous photo. Both are on by default.
2. 2Features: Choose print crop, Swipe products on phones and Group photos print only (new jobs).
3. 3Manage products and prices: opens your products.

• Choose print crop: for prints, parents decide themselves what gets printed. Default: off. The aspect ratio follows the format, for example 5x7. The shop rejects crops below 150 dpi. The cropped file is made from the original after payment and sits in the order and in the lab export.
• Swipe products on phones: on a phone the product cards sit side by side and can be swiped.
• Group photos print only: default for new photo jobs. Group photos are then not available as files. You change existing jobs in the job itself, see Group photos.

Under Cart you design the last look before checkout.

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1. 1Note: sits above the order summary, up to 300 characters. If it stays empty, nothing shows. Good for an order deadline before the holidays.
2. 2Options: Discount code field in the cart and at checkout (default: on). "Continue shopping" shows a link back to the gallery (default: off). Manage discount codes opens the discount codes.
3. 3Empty cart: headline and text when nothing is in the cart yet. Hover over the step and the preview shows the empty cart.
4. 4Set up shipping: shipping costs and free shipping above an amount are under Settings › Shipping.

Under Checkout you decide what parents fill in and what they read before paying. You set up the payment methods themselves under Payments.

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1. 1Contact: Phone number as Optional (default), Required or Hide. Recommend sign-in shows a card that recommends a customer account. For digital products sign-in is always required.
2. 2Note: sits right above the payment methods, up to 300 characters. Below it "Continue shopping" (default: on).
3. 3Set up payment methods: opens Settings › Payments.
4. 4Live preview: the checkout with your settings. The payment methods in it are examples.

With Consent at checkout parents tick a box before ordering. For example for your privacy policy, your terms or the waiver of the right of withdrawal for digital photos. The box is never pre-ticked.

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1. 1Consent at checkout: Require a tick before ordering turns it on. Without the tick nobody can order, with any payment method.
2. 2Live preview: shows the box in the chosen place with your text.

• Linked page: Automatic uses your privacy page. You can choose any published page. If no suitable page exists, the box shows without a link.
• Position of the box: Before the order button or After the order button.
• Text next to the box: up to 400 characters. If it stays empty, customers see the default text in their language. {page} becomes the link to the chosen page. Without {page} the link sits at the end.

After the purchase parents see the confirmation page. Under Confirmation you turn it into a personal thank you. Payment details such as bank transfer or pickup are shown by Pixalo automatically, matching the payment method.

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1. 1Headline: the large line below the check mark, up to 80 characters. If it stays empty, the default text shows.
2. 2Personal message: sits below the headline, up to 600 characters. If it stays empty, nothing shows.
3. 3Order summary: the list of items with amounts. When it is off, the order number and total stay visible.
4. 4Bottom button: Back to home (default) or To the gallery to order more.

When parents sign in, they see the overview of their customer account. Under Customer account you adapt this page.

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1. 1Welcome: the sentence below "Welcome back", up to 160 characters. If it stays empty, the default text shows.
2. 2Order more: the "Order more" card with a To the gallery button. Default: on.
3. 3Sign-in and account icons in the menu: you show or hide them in the Shop designer under Header › Menu.
4. 4Invoices in the customer account: the card only shows when your invoice module is on. More under Invoices.

After purchase, families download their digital photos. You set the period under Customer account in the step Download period. It counts from the order date.

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1. 1Customer account: this is where the download period lives.
2. 2Validity of download links: 7 to 90 days.
3. 3Note: tell your customers about the period and update your privacy policy.

• 7 to 90 days. Default and recommendation are 7 days, so originals are not available longer than needed.
• Applies to single downloads, ZIP archives and the link to set a password.
• A change also applies to existing orders, counted from their order date.