Images
Image Loading Slowly?
There is typically only one reason why your images are loading slowly and that is image size. High definition or print-ready images have high DPI and therefore contain more information for your computer network to transfer for you to view. When ...
Why is my image not the correct orientation?
A small caveat of uploading images from your computer can be a mixup of the image's orientation. We hear of rare cases in regards to this issue, but want to make sure our customers know how to solve the problem. See below for an example that you may ...
Using GIF Files
liveBooks allows you to upload and use GIF files in your image galleries, item key images as well as for your background files. When preparing your GIFs, please keep around 2-3mb max files size as well as around 10 seconds for the length. For more ...
Customize the Height of Your Image Gallery
All of our slideshow Image Gallery layout types have customizable height attributes that can be set to manually adjust, fit to window, or auto adjust. These design features are great for photographers who are looking for a full bleed aesthetic or ...
Customize Your Image Gallery
Our Image Galleries offer eight different layout types for you to choose from. Read on to see how to customize a slideshow image gallery to preserve aspect ratio with a background color, and view the carousel slideshow option. Create a classic ...
Add an Automatic Slideshow
You can show off your images in a beautiful, automatic slideshow, by following these steps: 1. Select the Design tool in the gray navigation bar. 2. Navigate to the Page that contains your Image Gallery. 3. In the right-hand menu of the website ...
Create a Thumbnail Image Gallery
We have several gallery options that have thumbnail menus for all liveBooks websites. Thumbnails allow your viewers to quickly preview your images before viewing the enlarged version, all on one page. 1. After adding your Image Gallery to your page, ...
Add an Image/Image Gallery
Add an Image or Image Gallery block to your page by using one of our preset content blocks. 1. Select Content in the navbar 2. Select the page you want to add an image to 2. While on the page, click on the green (+) icon that appears between the ...
Change an Image on Your Website
Within your liveBooks dashboard, you can swap out images on the fly. You can change images in both the Content and Design sections of the platform. From the Design view From your main dashboard view, click the design view. Select the page you wish to ...
Position Your Images Alongside Text
Content positioning is a feature that is available to you in all image blocks, and it can be selected within the Design tab on your dashboard. How to position images within your page content 1. From Content, and in your page that includes your image ...
Add Overlay Text or Hover Effects to Your Images
Craft a more beautiful image block or image gallery with our stylized overlay and hover effects. Image effects allow you to display content titles/descriptions and link to other pages on your site. Click Design at the top of your liveBooks dashboard, ...
Choose the Number of Visible Images on Image Gallery (Classic Slideshow)
One unique image gallery feature is our "Visible Items" option, you can use it to display 1, 2, or 3 images per gallery slide. 1. Select Design from the navbar and navigate to the page that contains your Image Gallery 2. Select the Page tab at the ...
Gallery Settings - Fit to window (Video Tutorial)
How to properly set up your galleries as 'fit to window' or full frame.
Resize an Image
Here is how to make your image smaller or larger on your page: 1. Select Content 2. Select the page that contains your image 3. Select Design this page in the sidebar on the right 4. Select your image in the Design panel on the right 5. Under image, ...
Image Ratio Options
New updates give users the ability to have even more control over image sizes within their website! Now, for beneath the Image > Style > Shape design options, you'll see even more ratio options for your images. These image ratio sizes are available ...
Add a Drop Shadow to Your Images
Adding a drop shadow to your images gives your image depth and perspective. It makes it look like the image is popping right out of the screen! Images without a drop shadow effect: Images with a shadow drop effect: To add a drop shadow to your ...
Default vs. Open in Modal Click Actions
Within the design editor, you can change the behavior of images within a gallery to either 'Default' and 'Open In Modal' --- Default This option enables the default action set within your content area. Either no click action or the image links to a ...
Image Upload and Gallery Walkthrough (Video Tutorial)
This is a walkthrough on adding images to your liveBooks site as well as creating a gallery for them. We also cover some tips on how to use your image library effectively. Click here for the liveBooks Image Preparation Guide
Expand Images to Fill Window (Set a Hero Image)
Note: This option is only available for Emerging, Professional, and Custom plans. This feature is not available on Legacy Hosting or Legacy Professional plans. A Hero Image is an image on your website that is the background for the navigation bar, as ...