How do I use an existing gallery for my shop's product images?

The site I'm working on is on a Personal plan at the moment, but I may be asked to add e-commerce. I'm trying to get ahead of it by doing some practice pages.

Right now the site has a gallery of some 135 art images, and each of these would be a product for sale. I was hoping I could add images directly from the gallery, rather than uploading each and every one again, as well as having to re-type many of the text/details on each one.

But I'm not seeing that as an option. Am I missing something, or am I out of luck? Would I need to upload duplicates of each image?

How do we reuse any gallery for that matter?

On 12/31/2020 at 2:43 AM, ineedhelp said:

I may be asked to add e-commerce. Right now the site has a gallery of some 135 art images, and each of these would be a product for sale. I was hoping I could add images directly from the gallery, rather than uploading each and every one again

When you add images to Squarespace they are added to your site's "Image Library". You can reuse images by selecting them from the Image Library.

For more information, see Browse and add images in My Library.