Backlight allows photographers to create, manage and personalize their online photo galleries.
Use it just for galleries, or use it to create your entire website. Get your galleries up and running in minutes, then use Backlight's flexible designer to personalize the content, look and feel of your site.
With add-ons, Backlight is more than just a showcase; it becomes a powerful tool for streamlining your photography business. Maximize the utility of your website with client select and feedback features, shopping cart functionality, alternative gallery styles, and more!
Create photo galleries, or an entire website.
Organize photos into albums and album sets, and personalize the look, feel and functionality of your online galleries. Choose classic, masonry or justified grid styles for your galleries.
Tell your stories, post news and updates, or present images inline with text using essays and blogs.
Create pages and contact forms. Designate galleries for public or private viewing, and assign private galleries to specific clients for access.
Backlight's albums and pages are fully responsive, fantastic on desktop screens and on mobile devices including phones and tablets.
Upload image files via your Web browser, or use our Publish Services plugin for Lightroom Classic to manage your galleries from within your existing Lr-based workflow.
The Client Response add-on adds image select and feedback capability to Backlight's standard albums, to facilitate communication between the photographer and client following a photo shoot. Clients can choose their favorite images, apply star ratings, select options or provide comments; this feedback is then delivered to the photographer's email for processing the job.
Requires Backlight.
Works with "Pangolin" templates.
The Cart Add-on adds shopping cart functionality to your Backlight pages and image galleries. The cart can be used to sell digital image downloads, photo prints, photo packages, or other physical goods or services. The cart accepts online payment via PayPal, or can be used to create invoiced orders, allowing the photographer to collect payment offline or by alternate means. Salable items may be setup with any number of additional purchase options. Orders are sent to your email, and are saved to Backlight's admin as backup.
Requires Backlight.
Works with "Pangolin" templates.
The Galleria Add-on creates beautiful, swipeable slideshows, with a wealth of personalization features.
Watch our video demonstration.
Requires Backlight.
Works with "Pangolin" templates.
The Theater Add-on provides numerous alternative presentation types for image galleries and multimedia, including full-screen slideshow, before-and-after image comparisons, and video presentations. See examples for the full range of available presentations.
Requires Backlight.
Works with "Pangolin" templates.
The WP Theme add-on allows you to convert Backlight's page designs into WordPress themes, providing coherence between your Backlight-managed image galleries and your WordPress-driven blog.
Requires Backlight.
Works with "Pangolin" templates.
Requirements
System
- An FTP client (free options are available)
- For the optional Publish Services plugin for Lightroom, a Mac or Windows PC, running Lightroom Classic.
- Add-ons require Backlight.
Hosting
In general, any place you can run WordPress, you can run Backlight. Specifically, Backlight calls for:
- Linux OS
- Apache server
- PHP 5.6 or newer
- SQLite and PDO modules enabled
Supported Browsers
On desktop, Backlight runs in current versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari, and in Internet Explorer 10 and 11. On mobile, current versions of Android Browser, Chrome for Android and iOS, and iOS Safari are supported.
Backlight is not standalone software. The Backlight web-application should be deployed to a local or remote web server adhering to the above requirements; for online use, a domain name and standard web hosting are required. Hosted website services such as those provided by LiveBooks, Squarespace, etc. are not "standard" web hosting and will not run Backlight.
Support
The Turning Gate offers friendly, comprehensive product support. We are dedicated to seeing every customer successfully launch their website.
Sales are final; no refunds.
Only available as a digital download.