Publish an album and share it
Publishing puts an album online, with your edits, for the people you choose. How to make an album, publish it, pick who sees it and share it.
Most of Litria never leaves your device. Publishing is the exception, and you choose it each time. It puts a copy of an album's photos online, with your edits applied, on a page of its own. This post goes from making the album to sharing its link.
Make an album
An album is a set of photos gathered from any of your folders. The photos stay where they are on disk, and one photo can be in several albums.
- In the sidebar, under Albums, choose New album.
- Type a name, up to 120 characters, and choose Create album.
- On the album's page, choose Add photos, then pick photos from any folder in your library, or add them from the Library and the editor.
Albums are free on every plan. You sign in to make one. Each album is a page you edit in place: type its title and description, drag photos into order, and pick the cover. Delete album is under More, and it leaves the photos in your library.
Publish it
Publishing needs an account, so the first time Litria asks you to sign in with Google. Signing in changes nothing on your device.
A new album starts as a Draft that only you see, and nothing is uploaded until you publish it. Then pick who sees it:
- Private. Only you and the people you share it with, once they sign in.
- Unlisted. Anyone with the link. The album is never listed anywhere.
- Public. Anyone with the link, and search engines may list it.
The description is optional, and it appears under the album's title on its page. Preview shows the page as a visitor will see it, before you publish.
Size. 1920 px on the long edge is on every plan. 2560 px and full resolution are part of Pro.
Choose Publish. Litria makes each copy on your device, from the photo with your edits applied, and sends that copy. The file on your disk stays where it is and is never uploaded.
What the copy carries
Each copy keeps the camera details a photographer likes to see: the camera and lens, the capture date, the exposure, aperture, ISO and focal length. It never carries where the photo was taken.
Published photos count toward your storage for published photos, which is 500 MB on the free plan.
Change it later
When you edit the album or add photos, choose Update to put the changes live in one go. Litria sends only the photos that changed and skips the rest.
To make an album more private, change its visibility and publish it again. Anyone who already has a photo's address can keep seeing it for up to 5 minutes.
To take an album down, set it back to Draft, which unpublishes it. Unpublish is also in its menu. Litria deletes the copies from its storage and the links stop working. Your photos stay in Litria, and the files on disk are not touched. Settings, under Storage & backup, lists everything you have published, with Delete beside each album.
Share it
A published album has its own address on litria.app. Share gives you the album's link to copy, and Preview shows the page as visitors see it. For an Unlisted or Public album, send that link to whoever you like.
A Private album has Share with people. Add the email address of each person who should see it, up to 50. Litria does not email them: copy the link and send it yourself. They sign in with that address to open it.
A Public album also appears on your portfolio. The portfolio post covers that page.
Open Litria
Open Litria in Chrome or Edge, or download the desktop app. Make an album from your last shoot and publish it as Unlisted.