Creating a Gallery in Squarespace: A Step-by-Step Guide

To create a gallery in Squarespace, you can use either the page gallery or the gallery block feature. In this guide, we will explore both methods and provide step-by-step instructions on how to get started.

**Method 1: Creating a Page Gallery**

One way to create a gallery is to use the page gallery feature. To do this, go to the Pages section in your Squarespace site and click on the "Create a new page" button. Choose the type of page you want to create, such as a regular page or a product page. Once you've chosen the page type, click on the "+" icon at the top right corner of the page and select "Gallery" from the dropdown menu.

Once you've selected the gallery option, Squarespace will create an empty gallery with the name "My Gallery". You can then add images to this gallery by clicking on the "Upload Images" button. From here, you can upload multiple images at once or choose individual images to upload. Once all of your images have been uploaded, Squarespace will handle all of the resizing for you, ensuring that your images display correctly on any device.

To add more features to your gallery, such as text and descriptions, simply hover over the "Add Content" button at the bottom of the page and select from a range of options. You can choose from blocks such as text, image, audio, video, and more. Simply drag and drop these blocks into place, adjusting their size and alignment to suit your needs.

**Method 2: Creating a Gallery Block**

Another way to create a gallery is by using the gallery block feature. To do this, go back to the Pages section in your Squarespace site and click on the "Edit" button next to the page you want to add the gallery to. This will open up the content editor, where you can add text, images, and other elements to your page.

To create a gallery block, hover over one of the insertion points at the bottom of the page and select the Gallery block from the dropdown menu. Once you've selected the gallery block, Squarespace will prompt you to upload some images. Choose how many images you want to upload and select them from your computer or other sources.

Once all of your images have been uploaded, simply click on the "Save" button to finalize the gallery block. You can then add more features to your gallery, such as text and descriptions, by hovering over the insertion points and selecting from a range of options.

**Tips and Variations**

One of the benefits of using Squarespace is its flexibility and customization options. If you want to create a gallery with a lot of text or other elements, creating a gallery block may be a better option for you. On the other hand, if you just want to showcase a collection of images without much additional content, a page gallery may be sufficient.

Regardless of which method you choose, Squarespace makes it easy to create a professional-looking gallery that will impress your visitors. With its range of templates, blocks, and customization options, you can create a gallery that reflects your personal style and brand.

**Getting Started with Squarespace**

If you're interested in trying out Squarespace for yourself, be sure to check out their free trial offer. This allows you to create a website and test out the features without committing to anything. Once you've had a chance to explore Squarespace and see what it can do, if you decide that it's right for you, they often have special promotions and discounts available.

In this article, we've covered two main methods for creating galleries in Squarespace: using page galleries and gallery blocks. We've also explored some of the tips and variations that make Squarespace such a popular choice among website creators. Whether you're looking to create a simple gallery or something more complex, Squarespace makes it easy to get started.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everybody Ted Forbes here welcome back to the Art of Photography in this video I want to do some updates to our contrast side project and if you're not familiar with what this is contrast is a side project that I'm going to do that I Envision as being more of a magazine type of content um I love producing videos and we do a lot of that here and there's certain things if you're doing portfolios or if you're doing some kind of written interviews that don't fit as well into the format here is they might into a different kind of format and so contrast is a little bit of an experiment of a side project that I'm thinking of as being an online magazine and I've done several shows on this now and if you want to go see the others and some of the past updates I'll put a link in the show notes so you too can check that out uh but anyway it's been exciting and one of the things I've been thinking through the last couple weeks is whether or not if this is going to be an online magazine if it could also be maybe a quarterly print magazine and I've been round and round with this and some of you guys have left comments and left wonderful suggestions on here and I want to give thanks especially to my friend John Mason in Atlanta as well as Dave BAS who I got some really good um constructive um inspiration and some possibilities from those two guys and you know the the problem is this when you do a print publication all of us as photographers would really like to see a nicely done print publication and I want to do that but there are a couple things that are scaring me off number one a lot of people have suggested why don't you try Kickstarter for something like this and Kickstarter gets a little bit complicated you don't start a business on Kickstarter you can finance a project or a product on Kickstarter so if we financed the first issue let's say or maybe we financed the first four issues or something like that you're left with one a crowdfunded thing a lot of people also view Kickstarter as being like a store and it's not really a store and if you're trying to build a business around something I'm just not completely comfortable with the idea of Kickstarter for this um and so I there are other things that we can do and other things that I want to explore with it but I think that's kind of the Crux of where my feelings are with that another thing that has gotten me ridiculously scared is the last time well I went to Barnes & Noble the other day we still have a Barnes & Noble here in town and I wanted to go get some inspiration and look at some kind of smaller art magazines to see what people were doing and just walking up to that shelf kind of freaked me out cuz the way they have it in Dallas is they have this big section of of books for the art section and magazines I mean so there's your magazine rack it's a whole length of the wall and there one little section is the art section and it's photography and its interior design and its graphic design and its illustration it's everything and these magazines there's like a thousand of them all just crammed in there and they're all sitting on top of one another and some of them fallen behind and there were two magazines I was looking for they said they had them in the inventory but then they were like rumbling around trying to find them and I thought just the nightmare of trying to run a print publication and so where I am with this is i' I've been trying to think of ways that this still could be done because the whole idea is to have something that's in print um that has a certain Beauty to it um the photographs that we reproduce in there and all the thinking I've done is like well wait a minute let me pull back a little bit one why does it have to be a traditional magazine because then I'm going to have to be in charge of like subscriptions I'd like to do this without advertising in it you're into another business there and that would detract time from doing these shows and so that makes me concerned too but what if we did this what if we went forward with contrast is an online publication so it'll be a website we I've given you the address before it's Contra St spells that contrast and so you can go to the website we'll have all the content there that will be available for free and we feature photographers you may not be familiar with we'll do some Community stuff in there to feature people who watch the show that submit work and I'll work all that out between now and the fall and that's what I'm planning on doing is launching in the fall the other thing I like about that is I need to get used to doing producing this kind of content and if I bite off more than I can chew with this whole print side uh that may be disastrous potentially so we'll start that way and then what I Envision doing is maybe we'll do I guess for lack of a better word an annual or something that comes out once a year and this will be a bigger publication that is probably thicker and nicer and more maybe like a book than a magazine and I'll find a way to get that printed and maybe what we could do is do some kind of crowdfunding or a way people could pre-bi it uh before we print it and I'll make sure I have all my numbers together on what exactly that would cost and then that content would be just kind of a nice way of wrapping up what we did in the other four issues I don't see it being duplicate content I see it being additional content and a really nice way of bringing things together and we could do these maybe once a year and that would be a better way to start this so what we're going to do is just that um Squarespace are nice enough to have helped us out with this so we're going to start this as an online publication uh the content is going to be great I've got a lot of cool things in store and I don't want to give that away yet because I want it to be a surprise when we're ready to do that so that will launch in the fall and then after we have a couple issues under our belt that's when we'll start the print process and I'm still excited about doing the print thing I just want to do it right and for me I just have a high standard of what that is and the problem is is it becomes expensive and if you're trying to figure out whether people would pay to do that or not I mean that's where it becomes you know kind of a little bit hazy and a little bit nebulous and what I don't want to do is start a business and go immediately into the red and have that consume my time and cause a stir with that that attract or detracts from the time I spend doing the show so I think this is the best fit for everything is we'll do that once a year thing where we do an annual publication that comes out that you can purchase that's a print edition um it'll be slightly different than what we've had on the website it may be additional content it could be extras something like that it'll be something special and because I want to communicate what I mean by special what I want to do today is I want to show you guys I have bought a lot of really cool Boutique art Zen over the last couple weeks and I want to share with you some of the cooler ones some of these I've had in my collection for a number of years and another one I just picked up recently that in my mind have set the bar for what a print publication needs to be in terms of the print quality in terms of the paper it's printed on in terms of the way it feels the the amount of content that's in there and I want to give shout outs to a couple these people cuz I found found some great stuff and I want to share with you guys what that bar is for me so if we do this one-year publication rather than try to go all out and do fouryear one a month or whatever this is the bar that I want this to set to so without further Ado let's go over and take a look at some art Z I'm going to show you a group of magazines that I found that I'm drawn an enormous amount of inspiration from over the last couple weeks and some of these have been in my collection for a few years like this one and the this is believe me this is cold out of a very large stack of stuff I've researched but the reason I'm pulling it down to just these is is what I find impressive about the three Publications that I'm going to show you is that they're done by small groups of people and they're done at a really high quality and I'm sure these people are on limited budget but they make it happen and they're not corporate magazines these are very much art zenes they're very Boutique and they're really along the lines of what I'm holding my standard to and if I'm only going to produce one of these a year if that's all I can do then it has to be at least this quality and these are all people that have been an enormous inspiration to me Brooks Jensen uh many of you probably know who he is uh lens work is a photography magazine that's widely available and Brooks does a really nice audio podcast as well uh Brooks Jensen is one of my heroes I I think he is absolutely amazing at what he does he's done a tremendous job with Lynn's work and if you just look through here they've obviously ironed out the printing but this is only a handful of people who put this publication together and the image quality in here and I don't know if you can really see this from the video or not but it's extremely high quality and for a magazine that's not a very large size you need that kind of resolution I think and you need that kind of print quality um these are print uh in in I guess the best best way to describe it is you know when you're printing color there's um you know usually four pigments that are used to mix the various colors well these are done in kind of a duone or a trone where they use actually different shades of black and white to achieve the look that they get in here and you do notice a big difference the way the the work is printed um and it looks absolutely stunning in here and so like you know when I did my little demo Pro experiment with blurb I did not have this high quality on it and I just think that you're going to need that I know this is only a few people are going to be picky enough to really notice and care about a difference here and a lot of people are just going to be looking at the content but I want to make it the best it can possibly be and Lind work is outstanding the only beef I have with lens work is they do need a little help in the graphic design area you know the interior of this is has kind of a formula layout that works um but the design lacks a little bit desired especially when you get into the extras and stuff that can you can do with Linds work it's a little zenie U but you know that's I probably shouldn't have even mentioned that because I I'm Brooks Jensen is a hero of mine and he puts together such a wonderful publication and and what I like that Brooks does very best is that he's an excellent person to be doing interviews he understands photography he knows it inside out he does really really good interviews with these photographers the work and the photographers that he selects to be in this publication are topnotch and the publication itself is top-notch too now they are doing some printing service so that could be a possibility if we decide to do an annual book and um anyway so that's that's a possibility so that's Lynn's work and I want to kind of cover a couple others here this is a really funky one this is a magazine called imigra and igra uh is is now they're not they're no longer doing this magazine but this was a very important Zen at the dawn of desktop publishing so if you're thinking like in the 90s so mid90s to late '90s uh emigra was a uh designer Duo out of California um and they produced this magazine as almost kind of a punk rock answer uh to what was going on in commercial printing the fact that now you could design something and produce it on a desktop and you didn't have to do uh you know these big expensive mockups and and the way we used to do graphic design work and so this is one issue there's a whole bunch of them they're very collectible now and they're out of print I bought this one back when it was in print and I have a couple of them and some of them go for a lot of money now they're very collectible they this whole series Ser is in like SF mom's collection it's very significant and I'll put links to these in the show notes if you want to check them out this is imigra and the reason I pulled this one is this one I like because the print quality on here is really interesting this one they did uh a series where they would do a lot of Photography that was featured in here a lot of graphic design work that was featured in here and then they did a couple issues where they featured bands now there is no format to immigrate every issue was completely different um it's kind of like mcweeney if you've ever seen mcwey which is a literature magazine every issue look is like a book it's just designed completely differently and they tell a different story with it but these two that they did with bands that were really cool this is the um acid gospel experience with Scenic and what they did is they included a CD so you had the music component the whole thing here is just this car it's a cardboard printing but it has kind of a coolness to it they used all their own fonts that zuzan Lio designed for igra their font house as well and then this is not a expensive print job here and they did run a couple ads in here but they're nicely done but you can see the photography but it kind of works because the lowii print quality on this worked with the cardboard box and the CD so there are ways um this is where a good graphic designer comes in to understand how to produce a magazine of a different kind of quality and I think that this one was just outstanding of course they would also feature fonts that they designed in here as well so there's there's a lot that goes on in these magazines but this was this was a really important Zen for its time and I think in terms of graphic design and even photography even though it's not as known in the photography world it's more known in the design world but from a photography standpoint it was really interesting to see a lot of the work that was produced in here and uh they just did an outstanding job so it's it's not an expensive publication uh this particular issue others were more lavish it just depended everything was different and I that was an idea that came through my mind at one point too is I really like that in a magazine why does everything have to be formulated can you do things that are different and imigra was was outstanding so I highly recommend checking out igra even though it's harder to find the last one I want to show you is a magaz that's currently being produced by a Duo out of Brooklyn called the Great discontent and I have nothing but the utmost respect for these people for producing this magazine this was indeed started on Kickstarter a while back and I believe they're on the third issue is the latest I don't believe the fourth is out just yet but they are producing this and it is not produced monthly I can't remember whether it's quarterly or what the what the deal is on this but the great discontent started as a website and what these two were doing for graphic design uh is a lot it's not dissimilar to what I've done with the Art of Photography um they feature designers they feature kind of cultural leaders icons um and they've gone ahead and produced a number of issues and I backordered uh issues two and three through their website uh issue one is out of print now and uh anyway it is just absolutely magnificent and they have gone into the print world and so they've worked with um with a old friend of mine Frank chimo who's a wonderful uh graphic designer and you can see that even as far as content goes they branched out just a little bit from just graphic design so we have music in this issue with with iron and wine but the paper that this is printed on the quality it's printed at the design layouts the typography um the photography that's in here uh the kinds of people that they've covered and and and talked to here's an feature on an artist the lay layouts and spreads the type faces everything is just so beautiful in here and they have done an absolutely outstanding job and what I really like about this is they're just like you or me I mean it's just two people who had a passion for graphic design and wanted to make it a reality and God bless them they've made a magazine and they're going strong and uh this comes out I believe it's four times a year and I guess the greatest great discontent is probably the one I was impressed with like what I would Envision if I were able to do a magazine it would be like and I just think that being by myself right now on this and uh not having the help on it and and having a full-time job doing the videos that I produce um this kind of humbled me a little bit because this is not easy to do folks this is brilliant work it is just gorgeous the layouts the spreads and like I said I will link up to everything in the show notes this is not an expensive publication here's a article on a photographer named Andre Wagner that's really cool uh he does really interesting work but you know so here's a photography spread this is the kind of quality you need um it's also interesting that the paper quality changes depending on this went to a glossy and some of these other pages are a matte finish very very well done very well thought out uh just everything all the details are crossed in here and they've just done an outstanding job I'm going to link up to these in the show notes this is a $20 magazine I I can't believe they got the cost down that low and they're able to survive I mean this is a a pure passion project sorry us is 25 uh 23 17 pounds or Canadian 29 uh but still it's very affordable and you can order these back issues off their website and I would recommend you guys go do that um if not consider a subscription if you're interested in graphic design and cultural topics and things like that cuz the great discontent is just you know I took one look at this and thought well that's the magazine I wanted to make and they've already done it and they really have it's just it's just gorgeous I love the layouts I love the spreads I love how they've done everything in here it's just absolutely beautiful so anyway so that's kind of what has led me to my decision right now so what we're going to do is I would like to do a print version but it has to be this quality it has to be on par with these it can't look bad um this is the only way to do it as far as I'm concerned and some of you probably think that's probably way too anal retentive and ridiculous of me to think that way but you know if you're going to go for Quality you got to do it right and so I think the best way to do this right is to be able to start with the website and then we will move forward from there and so what I'm thinking is at the end of the year and we could consider a Kickstarter or some way of funding it if if I can't think of anything else but anyway that's what I would like to do is is actually uh work through this and do it on this level and we'll do we'll start with an annual publication and it'll be a little bit different content than what's on the website but the website will be the main thing for now and we will look at and consider print publication as we move along and once again all these are linked in the show notes so uh emigra lens work and the great discontent and I know this is a random kind of assortment of little art zenes but uh I wanted to look at all kinds of different things I didn't want to just look at what photography magazines were out there um obviously there's some great photography magazines that are out there but you probably already know those number one and two I want to show you what the little guy is doing and just completely rocking at and it's amazing so just in case you guys haven't seen it uh this is the website um and one once again that URL and I'll link it in the show notes as well it's going to be contra.gr process and I'm going to do another one and update what we've talked about today with some of the other we've looked at um but once again I do want to remind everybody that the entire website in this project is sponsored by Squarespace and they have been a longtime supporter of the show uh Squarespace does a lot for a lot of Photography shows and they are wonderfully supportive and they make it possible for a lot of people to make content including me and uh hats off to Squarespace and I love their platform if you need an online website onine online portfolio online store anything that's online Squarespace probably have you covered and uh one of the things that I'm going to show you how to do today that's very cool cuz I've been working on some of the people I'm going to feature in the first issue of this magazine and how galleries work inside of um inside of Squarespace and I want to show you how this works because it's really cool there's essentially two ways that you can create a gallery galleries can be page types and then galleries are also available as blocks and I want to show you what the difference is on those because I think it's pretty cool so if I go in here and I'm going to create a new page here and you just click on one of these plus signs and here's all your page types you can do regular page a product page you can do a folder an album whatever you want to do I'm going to select gallery and now what this does is it makes the entire page a gallery and I can give this a name I'll call it my gallery and uh once I am ready there it's going to say hey this collection is empty add some photos and I want to show you how easy it is to add photographs to your Squarespace website so if I go to the desktop I do have some sample images in a folder I'm going to go ahead and grab all of those and I'm going to click drag and drop so once all of the images have been uploaded which they are now Squarespace is handled everything it uploads the images I throw big images at it and then it just goes ahead and it does all the resizing behind the scenes so it makes sure that everything displays correctly whether you're on a retina screen or a mobile device or a standard screen or whatever it is that you're looking at your website on so the second way we can add a Galler is to use it in the context of a page and to do this we use what Squarespace called blocks and so let me show you how this works if I go back to Pages what I'm going to do this time is I'm going to create another page and let's just do a standard page here I'm going to call this test page and uh we're going to put a gallery on this page now the way it works is this I need to go into edit and I need to create some content here so let's just create a little placeholder I'll say these are some images of flowers whatever you would write hopefully a little more uh poetic than that and I'm going to go ahead and uh you can hit save if you want but you're going to also notice that when I hover over you're going to see these little teardrops out to the side Squarespace call these insertion points and what I want to do is if I want to insert something into those points so that could be text it could be a gallery of images it could be an audio file a video let's go ahead and click the second one in there and it brings up my content blocks and this is kind of the core of Squarespace there's different blocks that do different things I could put more text in there I could put one image I'm going to select from Gallery down here let's do a grid and see how that works and so what I'm going to do is once again it gives me a little thing it says you need to upload some images I'm just going to give it four Images this time so once everything is uploaded I can go ahead and click save and we have just created a gallery block I can go in here and if I hover over there's more insertion points and I could put more text in here to describe things and you can go ahead and say right here and let's just do um some Greek text there and we'll say save and uh that will go ahead and save the page and now we are set so that's how you create a gallery as a block and so there're two very different things a page gallery and a gallery block and there's many options as to the look and feel that you want to have to these what you how you want it to work within the context of your website and sometimes being able to do those smaller Gallery blocks is a really good way to go or if you want a whole portfolio of images where you really don't want a lot of text anyway there's multiple options in here and I think that's what makes Squarespace so cool if you want to try Squarespace out they are offering a free trial right now and they don't require credit card or anything and in fact just go over there sign up for the free account and start making some stuff you get a free trial on it and if at the end of the free trial you decide it's right for you and you want to build your own website with Squarespace I can save you a little bit of money if you use an offer code at checkout and that offer code is aop it stands for The Art of Photography that is offer code aop so once again big shout out and thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring not only the Art of Photography but for donating the web space for contrast I'm really excited about building on this platform and uh it just couldn't be easier and it allows me just to write content and make cool stuff Squarespace handle the rest anyway we'll be covering these as we go so once again another special shout out to Squarespace and thank you guys for watching I'll see you all on the next video laterwhat's up everybody Ted Forbes here welcome back to the Art of Photography in this video I want to do some updates to our contrast side project and if you're not familiar with what this is contrast is a side project that I'm going to do that I Envision as being more of a magazine type of content um I love producing videos and we do a lot of that here and there's certain things if you're doing portfolios or if you're doing some kind of written interviews that don't fit as well into the format here is they might into a different kind of format and so contrast is a little bit of an experiment of a side project that I'm thinking of as being an online magazine and I've done several shows on this now and if you want to go see the others and some of the past updates I'll put a link in the show notes so you too can check that out uh but anyway it's been exciting and one of the things I've been thinking through the last couple weeks is whether or not if this is going to be an online magazine if it could also be maybe a quarterly print magazine and I've been round and round with this and some of you guys have left comments and left wonderful suggestions on here and I want to give thanks especially to my friend John Mason in Atlanta as well as Dave BAS who I got some really good um constructive um inspiration and some possibilities from those two guys and you know the the problem is this when you do a print publication all of us as photographers would really like to see a nicely done print publication and I want to do that but there are a couple things that are scaring me off number one a lot of people have suggested why don't you try Kickstarter for something like this and Kickstarter gets a little bit complicated you don't start a business on Kickstarter you can finance a project or a product on Kickstarter so if we financed the first issue let's say or maybe we financed the first four issues or something like that you're left with one a crowdfunded thing a lot of people also view Kickstarter as being like a store and it's not really a store and if you're trying to build a business around something I'm just not completely comfortable with the idea of Kickstarter for this um and so I there are other things that we can do and other things that I want to explore with it but I think that's kind of the Crux of where my feelings are with that another thing that has gotten me ridiculously scared is the last time well I went to Barnes & Noble the other day we still have a Barnes & Noble here in town and I wanted to go get some inspiration and look at some kind of smaller art magazines to see what people were doing and just walking up to that shelf kind of freaked me out cuz the way they have it in Dallas is they have this big section of of books for the art section and magazines I mean so there's your magazine rack it's a whole length of the wall and there one little section is the art section and it's photography and its interior design and its graphic design and its illustration it's everything and these magazines there's like a thousand of them all just crammed in there and they're all sitting on top of one another and some of them fallen behind and there were two magazines I was looking for they said they had them in the inventory but then they were like rumbling around trying to find them and I thought just the nightmare of trying to run a print publication and so where I am with this is i' I've been trying to think of ways that this still could be done because the whole idea is to have something that's in print um that has a certain Beauty to it um the photographs that we reproduce in there and all the thinking I've done is like well wait a minute let me pull back a little bit one why does it have to be a traditional magazine because then I'm going to have to be in charge of like subscriptions I'd like to do this without advertising in it you're into another business there and that would detract time from doing these shows and so that makes me concerned too but what if we did this what if we went forward with contrast is an online publication so it'll be a website we I've given you the address before it's Contra St spells that contrast and so you can go to the website we'll have all the content there that will be available for free and we feature photographers you may not be familiar with we'll do some Community stuff in there to feature people who watch the show that submit work and I'll work all that out between now and the fall and that's what I'm planning on doing is launching in the fall the other thing I like about that is I need to get used to doing producing this kind of content and if I bite off more than I can chew with this whole print side uh that may be disastrous potentially so we'll start that way and then what I Envision doing is maybe we'll do I guess for lack of a better word an annual or something that comes out once a year and this will be a bigger publication that is probably thicker and nicer and more maybe like a book than a magazine and I'll find a way to get that printed and maybe what we could do is do some kind of crowdfunding or a way people could pre-bi it uh before we print it and I'll make sure I have all my numbers together on what exactly that would cost and then that content would be just kind of a nice way of wrapping up what we did in the other four issues I don't see it being duplicate content I see it being additional content and a really nice way of bringing things together and we could do these maybe once a year and that would be a better way to start this so what we're going to do is just that um Squarespace are nice enough to have helped us out with this so we're going to start this as an online publication uh the content is going to be great I've got a lot of cool things in store and I don't want to give that away yet because I want it to be a surprise when we're ready to do that so that will launch in the fall and then after we have a couple issues under our belt that's when we'll start the print process and I'm still excited about doing the print thing I just want to do it right and for me I just have a high standard of what that is and the problem is is it becomes expensive and if you're trying to figure out whether people would pay to do that or not I mean that's where it becomes you know kind of a little bit hazy and a little bit nebulous and what I don't want to do is start a business and go immediately into the red and have that consume my time and cause a stir with that that attract or detracts from the time I spend doing the show so I think this is the best fit for everything is we'll do that once a year thing where we do an annual publication that comes out that you can purchase that's a print edition um it'll be slightly different than what we've had on the website it may be additional content it could be extras something like that it'll be something special and because I want to communicate what I mean by special what I want to do today is I want to show you guys I have bought a lot of really cool Boutique art Zen over the last couple weeks and I want to share with you some of the cooler ones some of these I've had in my collection for a number of years and another one I just picked up recently that in my mind have set the bar for what a print publication needs to be in terms of the print quality in terms of the paper it's printed on in terms of the way it feels the the amount of content that's in there and I want to give shout outs to a couple these people cuz I found found some great stuff and I want to share with you guys what that bar is for me so if we do this one-year publication rather than try to go all out and do fouryear one a month or whatever this is the bar that I want this to set to so without further Ado let's go over and take a look at some art Z I'm going to show you a group of magazines that I found that I'm drawn an enormous amount of inspiration from over the last couple weeks and some of these have been in my collection for a few years like this one and the this is believe me this is cold out of a very large stack of stuff I've researched but the reason I'm pulling it down to just these is is what I find impressive about the three Publications that I'm going to show you is that they're done by small groups of people and they're done at a really high quality and I'm sure these people are on limited budget but they make it happen and they're not corporate magazines these are very much art zenes they're very Boutique and they're really along the lines of what I'm holding my standard to and if I'm only going to produce one of these a year if that's all I can do then it has to be at least this quality and these are all people that have been an enormous inspiration to me Brooks Jensen uh many of you probably know who he is uh lens work is a photography magazine that's widely available and Brooks does a really nice audio podcast as well uh Brooks Jensen is one of my heroes I I think he is absolutely amazing at what he does he's done a tremendous job with Lynn's work and if you just look through here they've obviously ironed out the printing but this is only a handful of people who put this publication together and the image quality in here and I don't know if you can really see this from the video or not but it's extremely high quality and for a magazine that's not a very large size you need that kind of resolution I think and you need that kind of print quality um these are print uh in in I guess the best best way to describe it is you know when you're printing color there's um you know usually four pigments that are used to mix the various colors well these are done in kind of a duone or a trone where they use actually different shades of black and white to achieve the look that they get in here and you do notice a big difference the way the the work is printed um and it looks absolutely stunning in here and so like you know when I did my little demo Pro experiment with blurb I did not have this high quality on it and I just think that you're going to need that I know this is only a few people are going to be picky enough to really notice and care about a difference here and a lot of people are just going to be looking at the content but I want to make it the best it can possibly be and Lind work is outstanding the only beef I have with lens work is they do need a little help in the graphic design area you know the interior of this is has kind of a formula layout that works um but the design lacks a little bit desired especially when you get into the extras and stuff that can you can do with Linds work it's a little zenie U but you know that's I probably shouldn't have even mentioned that because I I'm Brooks Jensen is a hero of mine and he puts together such a wonderful publication and and what I like that Brooks does very best is that he's an excellent person to be doing interviews he understands photography he knows it inside out he does really really good interviews with these photographers the work and the photographers that he selects to be in this publication are topnotch and the publication itself is top-notch too now they are doing some printing service so that could be a possibility if we decide to do an annual book and um anyway so that's that's a possibility so that's Lynn's work and I want to kind of cover a couple others here this is a really funky one this is a magazine called imigra and igra uh is is now they're not they're no longer doing this magazine but this was a very important Zen at the dawn of desktop publishing so if you're thinking like in the 90s so mid90s to late '90s uh emigra was a uh designer Duo out of California um and they produced this magazine as almost kind of a punk rock answer uh to what was going on in commercial printing the fact that now you could design something and produce it on a desktop and you didn't have to do uh you know these big expensive mockups and and the way we used to do graphic design work and so this is one issue there's a whole bunch of them they're very collectible now and they're out of print I bought this one back when it was in print and I have a couple of them and some of them go for a lot of money now they're very collectible they this whole series Ser is in like SF mom's collection it's very significant and I'll put links to these in the show notes if you want to check them out this is imigra and the reason I pulled this one is this one I like because the print quality on here is really interesting this one they did uh a series where they would do a lot of Photography that was featured in here a lot of graphic design work that was featured in here and then they did a couple issues where they featured bands now there is no format to immigrate every issue was completely different um it's kind of like mcweeney if you've ever seen mcwey which is a literature magazine every issue look is like a book it's just designed completely differently and they tell a different story with it but these two that they did with bands that were really cool this is the um acid gospel experience with Scenic and what they did is they included a CD so you had the music component the whole thing here is just this car it's a cardboard printing but it has kind of a coolness to it they used all their own fonts that zuzan Lio designed for igra their font house as well and then this is not a expensive print job here and they did run a couple ads in here but they're nicely done but you can see the photography but it kind of works because the lowii print quality on this worked with the cardboard box and the CD so there are ways um this is where a good graphic designer comes in to understand how to produce a magazine of a different kind of quality and I think that this one was just outstanding of course they would also feature fonts that they designed in here as well so there's there's a lot that goes on in these magazines but this was this was a really important Zen for its time and I think in terms of graphic design and even photography even though it's not as known in the photography world it's more known in the design world but from a photography standpoint it was really interesting to see a lot of the work that was produced in here and uh they just did an outstanding job so it's it's not an expensive publication uh this particular issue others were more lavish it just depended everything was different and I that was an idea that came through my mind at one point too is I really like that in a magazine why does everything have to be formulated can you do things that are different and imigra was was outstanding so I highly recommend checking out igra even though it's harder to find the last one I want to show you is a magaz that's currently being produced by a Duo out of Brooklyn called the Great discontent and I have nothing but the utmost respect for these people for producing this magazine this was indeed started on Kickstarter a while back and I believe they're on the third issue is the latest I don't believe the fourth is out just yet but they are producing this and it is not produced monthly I can't remember whether it's quarterly or what the what the deal is on this but the great discontent started as a website and what these two were doing for graphic design uh is a lot it's not dissimilar to what I've done with the Art of Photography um they feature designers they feature kind of cultural leaders icons um and they've gone ahead and produced a number of issues and I backordered uh issues two and three through their website uh issue one is out of print now and uh anyway it is just absolutely magnificent and they have gone into the print world and so they've worked with um with a old friend of mine Frank chimo who's a wonderful uh graphic designer and you can see that even as far as content goes they branched out just a little bit from just graphic design so we have music in this issue with with iron and wine but the paper that this is printed on the quality it's printed at the design layouts the typography um the photography that's in here uh the kinds of people that they've covered and and and talked to here's an feature on an artist the lay layouts and spreads the type faces everything is just so beautiful in here and they have done an absolutely outstanding job and what I really like about this is they're just like you or me I mean it's just two people who had a passion for graphic design and wanted to make it a reality and God bless them they've made a magazine and they're going strong and uh this comes out I believe it's four times a year and I guess the greatest great discontent is probably the one I was impressed with like what I would Envision if I were able to do a magazine it would be like and I just think that being by myself right now on this and uh not having the help on it and and having a full-time job doing the videos that I produce um this kind of humbled me a little bit because this is not easy to do folks this is brilliant work it is just gorgeous the layouts the spreads and like I said I will link up to everything in the show notes this is not an expensive publication here's a article on a photographer named Andre Wagner that's really cool uh he does really interesting work but you know so here's a photography spread this is the kind of quality you need um it's also interesting that the paper quality changes depending on this went to a glossy and some of these other pages are a matte finish very very well done very well thought out uh just everything all the details are crossed in here and they've just done an outstanding job I'm going to link up to these in the show notes this is a $20 magazine I I can't believe they got the cost down that low and they're able to survive I mean this is a a pure passion project sorry us is 25 uh 23 17 pounds or Canadian 29 uh but still it's very affordable and you can order these back issues off their website and I would recommend you guys go do that um if not consider a subscription if you're interested in graphic design and cultural topics and things like that cuz the great discontent is just you know I took one look at this and thought well that's the magazine I wanted to make and they've already done it and they really have it's just it's just gorgeous I love the layouts I love the spreads I love how they've done everything in here it's just absolutely beautiful so anyway so that's kind of what has led me to my decision right now so what we're going to do is I would like to do a print version but it has to be this quality it has to be on par with these it can't look bad um this is the only way to do it as far as I'm concerned and some of you probably think that's probably way too anal retentive and ridiculous of me to think that way but you know if you're going to go for Quality you got to do it right and so I think the best way to do this right is to be able to start with the website and then we will move forward from there and so what I'm thinking is at the end of the year and we could consider a Kickstarter or some way of funding it if if I can't think of anything else but anyway that's what I would like to do is is actually uh work through this and do it on this level and we'll do we'll start with an annual publication and it'll be a little bit different content than what's on the website but the website will be the main thing for now and we will look at and consider print publication as we move along and once again all these are linked in the show notes so uh emigra lens work and the great discontent and I know this is a random kind of assortment of little art zenes but uh I wanted to look at all kinds of different things I didn't want to just look at what photography magazines were out there um obviously there's some great photography magazines that are out there but you probably already know those number one and two I want to show you what the little guy is doing and just completely rocking at and it's amazing so just in case you guys haven't seen it uh this is the website um and one once again that URL and I'll link it in the show notes as well it's going to be contra.gr process and I'm going to do another one and update what we've talked about today with some of the other we've looked at um but once again I do want to remind everybody that the entire website in this project is sponsored by Squarespace and they have been a longtime supporter of the show uh Squarespace does a lot for a lot of Photography shows and they are wonderfully supportive and they make it possible for a lot of people to make content including me and uh hats off to Squarespace and I love their platform if you need an online website onine online portfolio online store anything that's online Squarespace probably have you covered and uh one of the things that I'm going to show you how to do today that's very cool cuz I've been working on some of the people I'm going to feature in the first issue of this magazine and how galleries work inside of um inside of Squarespace and I want to show you how this works because it's really cool there's essentially two ways that you can create a gallery galleries can be page types and then galleries are also available as blocks and I want to show you what the difference is on those because I think it's pretty cool so if I go in here and I'm going to create a new page here and you just click on one of these plus signs and here's all your page types you can do regular page a product page you can do a folder an album whatever you want to do I'm going to select gallery and now what this does is it makes the entire page a gallery and I can give this a name I'll call it my gallery and uh once I am ready there it's going to say hey this collection is empty add some photos and I want to show you how easy it is to add photographs to your Squarespace website so if I go to the desktop I do have some sample images in a folder I'm going to go ahead and grab all of those and I'm going to click drag and drop so once all of the images have been uploaded which they are now Squarespace is handled everything it uploads the images I throw big images at it and then it just goes ahead and it does all the resizing behind the scenes so it makes sure that everything displays correctly whether you're on a retina screen or a mobile device or a standard screen or whatever it is that you're looking at your website on so the second way we can add a Galler is to use it in the context of a page and to do this we use what Squarespace called blocks and so let me show you how this works if I go back to Pages what I'm going to do this time is I'm going to create another page and let's just do a standard page here I'm going to call this test page and uh we're going to put a gallery on this page now the way it works is this I need to go into edit and I need to create some content here so let's just create a little placeholder I'll say these are some images of flowers whatever you would write hopefully a little more uh poetic than that and I'm going to go ahead and uh you can hit save if you want but you're going to also notice that when I hover over you're going to see these little teardrops out to the side Squarespace call these insertion points and what I want to do is if I want to insert something into those points so that could be text it could be a gallery of images it could be an audio file a video let's go ahead and click the second one in there and it brings up my content blocks and this is kind of the core of Squarespace there's different blocks that do different things I could put more text in there I could put one image I'm going to select from Gallery down here let's do a grid and see how that works and so what I'm going to do is once again it gives me a little thing it says you need to upload some images I'm just going to give it four Images this time so once everything is uploaded I can go ahead and click save and we have just created a gallery block I can go in here and if I hover over there's more insertion points and I could put more text in here to describe things and you can go ahead and say right here and let's just do um some Greek text there and we'll say save and uh that will go ahead and save the page and now we are set so that's how you create a gallery as a block and so there're two very different things a page gallery and a gallery block and there's many options as to the look and feel that you want to have to these what you how you want it to work within the context of your website and sometimes being able to do those smaller Gallery blocks is a really good way to go or if you want a whole portfolio of images where you really don't want a lot of text anyway there's multiple options in here and I think that's what makes Squarespace so cool if you want to try Squarespace out they are offering a free trial right now and they don't require credit card or anything and in fact just go over there sign up for the free account and start making some stuff you get a free trial on it and if at the end of the free trial you decide it's right for you and you want to build your own website with Squarespace I can save you a little bit of money if you use an offer code at checkout and that offer code is aop it stands for The Art of Photography that is offer code aop so once again big shout out and thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring not only the Art of Photography but for donating the web space for contrast I'm really excited about building on this platform and uh it just couldn't be easier and it allows me just to write content and make cool stuff Squarespace handle the rest anyway we'll be covering these as we go so once again another special shout out to Squarespace and thank you guys for watching I'll see you all on the next video later\n"