Sharing and roles
Nobody sees your library unless you invite them. There are two ways to let someone in: invite them as a person, or send a link to one story.
Inviting a person
- In your library open People and settings.
- Add the person by their email address, choose a role, and choose which spaces they may open.
- They get an email with a link. The same link is shown to you, so you can pass it on yourself.
The people you invite sign in at your library's own address, such as name.imagestoria.com. They do not need an ImageStoria subscription, and they exist only in your library.
The four roles
| Role | What they can do to begin with |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, including deleting, people and settings. That is you. |
| Editor | Add photos, tag them, edit copies, comment and download. |
| Commenter | Look at everything shared with them, comment and download. |
| Viewer | Look at everything shared with them. |
Anyone who can sign in can like a picture.
Switches for one person
A role is a starting point. For each person you can turn five things on or off:
- Upload: add photos and videos.
- Edit: make edited copies. The original is never changed.
- Tag: add and correct titles, tags, captions and places.
- Comment: write under a picture.
- Download: save the original file.
So a viewer can be allowed to download, or an editor stopped from uploading. Deleting, people and settings stay with the owner.
Spaces
A space is a separate library with its own people. You might keep one for the family and one for your work. Each person sees only the spaces you gave them. Someone with access to one space cannot tell that another exists.
Who sees names and faces
If you have turned on people recognition, only the owner and editors see names, face outlines and the People page. Commenters and viewers never do.
A link to one story
A story is a set of pictures told in order, with your words between them. Owners and editors can make a public link to a story. Anyone who has the link opens that story without signing in. They see that one story and nothing else in your library.
A story can have several links, and each link has its own options:
- View only. Visitors can read the story and nothing more.
- Download originals. Visitors may save the original files of the pictures in it.
- A password. The link asks for it before showing anything.
- Visitors can add photos. People at the same wedding or on the same trip can add their own pictures to the story.
A link is a key. Whoever has it can open the story, and can pass it on. Give a link a password if that worries you, and send the password another way.
Deleting a link ends it at once. Anyone who opens it afterwards sees nothing.
Sharing a story inside the library
Owners and editors also choose which of the invited people can read a story. That needs no link. The story appears for them when they sign in.
Taking access away
Remove a person in People and settings and they can no longer sign in. Their comments stay unless you delete them.
A file someone has already downloaded is theirs to keep. No setting can take it back, so give download to the people you would hand a print to.