Email V2: Image Gallery

Modified on 07 November

The Image Gallery is a powerful way to use, manage, and organize images across all of your races and ticket events. 


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What Is the Image Gallery in Email V2?

When you add an image to your Emails, there are now 3 tabs for you to choose from: Upload, My Image Gallery, and System Images.



Upload


The first option when adding an image is to Upload an image from your computer, phone, or tablet. In addition to editing the image with our cropping and rotate tools, there are a number of additional options available:


  • Image Name: This will default to the name that the image already has. In many cases, this can be something like “Untitled”. You can add an Image Name that will display in My Image Gallery. The Image Name is an internal field that only event directors will see. How does this help? We will add Search capabilities to Image Gallery in the future so that you’ll be able to search based on Image Name.
  • Alt Text: Alt text (alternative text) describes the appearance or function of an image on a page. Alt text is read aloud by screen readers used by visually impaired users. When we add Image Gallery to Websites V2, it displays in place of an image if it fails to load and is indexed by search engine bots to better understand the content of your page (helping with SEO).
  • Album: By default, all uploaded images are saved to the My Images folder for your event. You can also add additional folders to organize images – like Sponsors, Event Photos, Marketing, etc. Albums help you organize images.
  • Image Alignment and URL Type: These are existing image features that allow you to align the image and hyperlink to a RunSignup page or a Custom URL.


Once you upload an Image, you can click Edit to update the above fields. At this time, we do not allow album management. In addition, if you want to replace the image you first need to delete the existing image and add a new one. 


My Image Gallery includes images that you have already uploaded to Email V2. You can choose from any of your existing albums. The best part? It automatically works across your RunSignup and TicketSignup events that use the same payment account. In the example below, six of the races and ticket events associated with my payment account have uploaded Images to Email V2. I can choose images from any of the albums. This enables easy and consistent branding across events, and less manual work to re-upload the same images.



System Images


Don’t have images that you like for your Email? Search our System Images to find one you like! We’ve added several albums of images across a few common RunSignup event categories. Since images have so much impact for marketing events, we will continue to add more system images.