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Hi, I have been developing a Squarespace site to sell photography prints. It is a commerce/customer-centric focused website and NOT a portfolio "look at what I can do" website. I want people to be able to buy photography prints within minutes. I have been using the Mercer template to develop my site. Only now---nearly at the very end of completing the site (other than loading product images)--I have discovered a significant issue with the template...or Squarespace in general. I cannot change the product thumbnails either in the product gallery or the individual product pages to be full-size, uncropped images at the proper orientation (vertical or horizontal)! I could do a gallery that links to products but those products are still cropped. I have to choose between specific aspect ratios (which is okay as all of my images are 3:2 either vertical or horizontal) and vertical or horizontal which is applied to every single product globally. In other words, a vertical image is cropped to 3:2 horizontal or a horizontal image is cropped to 3:2 vertical. Is there a template that blends the ability to have a product page of uncropped thumbnail products (like many of the portfolio sites) that leads to an individual product page that has an image that can also be horizontal or vertical, selected individually per product, and uncropped? This seems like a MASSIVE miss by Squarespace if this is not possible. One workaround I am considering is to develop a gallery with all the images. The gallery images would then link to individual product pages. However, that would entail creating dozens of product pages individually...

I am currently using the Avenue Template for my photography site, and one thing I would like to know is: Can I add some code to "Add image to pdf" on hover, to sort of collect images in a downloadable pdf for my future clients? I think the site on the attached images uses Wordpress, but I would like to stick to SS since its easier to maintain. Any ideas?

I did not update my iPad for a long time, so I just recently ran into the problem that the single most important reason why I decided to go with Squarespace was that I can present my portfolio offline on my iPad the same as the website. As a photographer this is crucial. I contacted the support and did read many frustrated posts here already but no real answer from Squarespace other than : you should use the Squarespace app. Squarespace Answers with prewritten answers not going into the problem. Specially as the new app has nothing to do with a simple presentation app. I was with view book before... they was as smart as Squarespace and discontinued their presentation app. That was when I moved over to Squarespace. Has anybody found a way to work around - found an other app that is even remotely as good as the portfolio app was. And further more.. please voice to bring the portfolio app back. I will for sure leave if they don't do.

Hi! Thanks for your help in advance. I am looking to set up a 1-page gallery, with a big collection of images, but I want to find a way for the photographs to shuffle at random, a different organization each time you load the site. Any advice would help! Thank you.

I have searched through posts made by other photographers as far back as 2013. How is Squarespace not adding this feature to help and support photographers like myself. We are coming in to 2020 and as far as Im aware Squarespace still doesn't offer this feature! I am a wedding , Events photographer & videographer and more.. A client gallery which my clients can view & select their photo's. Its a must for us full time photographers and yet we don't have this feature ! C'mon Squarespace, sort it out ! Photographers choose Squarespace for it's professional layouts, easy to manage, but surely if photographers have to go to third party companies for this feature, your losing customers and that's bad for business. As a business, we need to keep traffic on our website, not direct them to another site and you don't need me to tell you that. Can we please have this feature, Client Proofing is an essential feature for photographers. I'm stunned to find that you don't have it since you claim to be the best website for photographers. It's a basic feature, yet we don't have it ? Okay, rant over. Maybe it can be a New Year feature ! Work with us Squarespace, we are your customers, your lifeline. Client Proofing & Client Selective Downloads Please ! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Mark Mark Standish Photography Ltd

Hi all, This is my first post on here!I am a photographer/videographer and I would like to start displaying my prices on my website.I came across this website and was wondering if a similar style pricing is possible on squarespace.https://www.louiseshrigley.co.uk/prices/ I am mainly interested the option of having the total price displayed when customers select the options they are after. I don't necessarily want customers to pay there and then as the pricing is just for displaying purposes. Thanks in advance :) Jan Willem

Hey all, new here! I currently have the Wells Template and have what might be a simple question. Looking to have my images be width to width on a computer screen. I am organizing the photos with a folder and then a blank page. See below! I'd love to remove as much white / negative space as possible.

We are a small production company that work on photography and video projects for various types of clients: entrepreneurs, family business, brands, etc. We would like to show our video reel in the front page, using a scroll template, with 3 pages that includes an About us, Services, and contact. Inside Sevices a gallery showing photography projects, video projects and postproduction projects.What would you recommend? Thanks from Uruguay!

When customers click on an image in the products gallery, they are taken to a purchase page where they can choose one of two print sizes. The problem is that the preview on that page is a cropped square, and my photographs are either horizontal or vertical. This square preview gives a false impression of what the customer is purchasing and, since migrating to SS, has greatly diminished my print sales. Can I add code to change the image from filling to preview block to just fitting the image file within the block? I don't want to change hosts again, but I might have to.

Hi.This is my website www.eleonorapeys.comOn my homepage (portfolio) My pictures are showing up as grey squares. When you click on them the normal uploaded picture shows up though. I have tried reloading the pages hundreds of times, sent a ticket over to Squarespace 7 hours ago (and received no answer yet) and i’ve Also tried uploading them again but nothing is working. It seems the more I try to fix it, the more damage it does. The weird thing is that some of my pictures are showing up... I don’t know what to do and I really need to fix this quickly. Any help?

It was supposed to be easy on Squarespace... So, how do I change the background image on the main page? This is a basic thing... Or so I thought.

Hi,I am trying to style my website so it will look good on my phone.I managed to enter CSS to change font size for my H1 and H3 But there are 6 pictures with text that I can't figure out how to changeits the 5 pictures in this page:https://raspberry-hibiscus-59n4.squarespace.com/?p I want to make the fonts smaller. And in this page:https://raspberry-hibiscus-59n4.squarespace.com/adult?p There is a picture in the middle of the page (where it says deepening method), on my computer it looks great but the picture on my phone looks small and the font on it looks small too. Thank you in advance for your help. :)

I am looking for a way to create a homepage with an interactive world map. Something with a simple silhouette of the world, enabling someone to click into segments of continents and reveal the photographs within. Let me know if you have any ideas on how I could achieve something like this. Thank you :)

I will be using SquareSpace to display my photographs. I want my photographs displayed at one size only, the embedded size. And I want the image to display exactly the same quality (not just close) as it does when displayed in a simple program like Windows Paint. I don't want viewers to be able to zoom in or out of the photo. I want them displayed the exact same way I view them on my computer. If my photograph is 3000 pixels x 2000 pixels, and I spend time sharpening it at that size, there is only ONE correct size to display it, 3000 pixels x 2000 pixels, period. If it is displayed at any other size, it loses its sharpness. Can I be assured that SquareSpace will allow me to display my photographs with this kind of pristine quality?

I'm looking at the Flatiron template and am so far impressed with all the functionality. However, I use client proofing galleries now to give clients login access to view files and select images for editing/purchase. I prefer them not to be visible on the main site to regular traffic. Is there an app or way to use this kind of functionality in Squarespace?

Hello, I've been using squarespace for a couple years now and I've been uploading photos up to my site, I deleted a page by accident and didn't have the photos backed up because I'm an idiot :) Is there anyway I can find them on squarespace? They must be keeping them somewhere to show them on the sites. Cheers -Tony

It seems that anyone can drag an image from my website – I wish to prevent this. How can I prevent the images from being dragged or copied from my website? Thanks for your help! Yvette