Public Media Gallery — Professional media sharing
The Public Media Gallery is your custom online gallery, hosted on Skyfish. The Gallery makes sure your audience sees all the media you want them to see, as soon as you want them to see it. It keeps your shared files easy-to-find, and makes sure they’re presented attractively, with the Gallery design custom-tailored to your brand’s aesthetic. You don’t even need any coding to set it up!
In Skyfish, you start using the Public Media Gallery by placing the images you want to share in a special folder in your Skyfish Drive. The folder is available the moment you begin using Skyfish.
Industry leaders, like Roskilde Festival and the Copenhagen Metro, use Public Media Galleries to share material with external parties. It’s a perfect solution to provide a press portal or download center.
The Public Media Gallery is included in every Skyfish subscription. You can use it to its full extent immediately, with no additional cost.
Simple to set up, with maximum security.
The Public Media Gallery is included into your Skyfish Drive by default.
You can upload files and create a folder structure in your Public Media Gallery just as you would for any other folder in your Skyfish Drive. Every file type is supported.
Because it’s Skyfish, it’s also extremely secure. The Skyfish Administrator maintains complete control over which users can update the Gallery, and what rights they have in which folders.
Each Public Media Gallery gets a unique URL, determined by the administrator. The URL could look like this, for example: www.skyfish.com/p/example. This URL takes users directly to the public-facing side of the Gallery, where they can browse, view and download the files you’ve chosen to share with them.
Each folder inside the Public Media Gallery also gets its own unique URL. After your Gallery is set up and open for visitors, you can place a curated selection of content in a Gallery folder, customize the folder’s URL, and then share it, to take users directly to your curated selection.
Easy to customize, and user-friendly.
From the moment you begin using the Public Media Gallery, your Skyfish Administrator can customize its layout. With just a few clicks, and with no technical knowledge needed, you can add your logo and folder thumbnails, and edit the title, color scheme, and default language to your organization’s own.
To help your Gallery’s visitors, it’s easy for them to see any important information about the files you’re sharing, such as their content description, image resolution, photographer details, and copyright information. The Gallery also shows images’ added tags, making it quick and easy for your visitors to search for and find whatever they need.
As with all the files stored in your Skyfish Drive, you can add Download Notes to files in the Public Media Gallery, too. This makes sure that anyone who downloads a file from your Gallery must view specific instructions that you’ve added about its use. You can also set expiry dates on files, just as in your Skyfish Drive, to prevent them from being used for longer than you allow.
In the Gallery’s settings, Skyfish Administrators can also choose to allow visitors to download entire folders as ZIP files. If activated, this makes it very convenient for visitors to retrieve whole collections of media, such as a journalist downloading a press pack, or a project stakeholder downloading a progress update.
Create your own Public Media Gallery — in just a few steps!
- Log into Skyfish. As a Skyfish Administrator, you will see a folder called Public Media Gallery in the folder overview to the left. Click on it to begin.
- Define the name of your Public Media Gallery. This will form part of the Gallery’s URL. Please note: while you can edit the title later, the URL can only be modified with the help of our Skyfish Specialist support team.
- Start uploading your content. You can drag and drop, upload from your hard drive, use an FTP client, or add files directly from the Skyfish mobile app. Organize your content into folders and sub-folders, and set access rights for each folder. Finally, make sure everything is tagged, so that it’s easy to search for.
- Customize the layout so that your Gallery fits your brand. Go to ‘Edit Layout’ in the Gallery, and use the user-friendly tools there to edit its appearance.
- Lastly, copy the URL to the Gallery, and share it with your audience through whichever platforms you use: your company website, your intranet, or on social media.