Navigating the album page

Written By Nick

Last updated 5 days ago

The album page is where you'll do most of your work in Social Valet — reviewing photos, editing details, and triggering post generation. Click any album from the Albums page or the dashboard to open it.

What's on the page

The album page has two main areas: a sidebar on the left with all your album details and actions, and a photo grid on the right.

Left sidebar

Everything about the album lives here, top to bottom:

  • Album type and status. Badges at the top show the event type (Wedding, Engagement, Corporate, etc.) and the album's current status — Draft or Active.

  • Album title. Click the pencil icon next to the title to open the edit screen for the entire album.

  • Status alerts. Time-sensitive callouts appear here — analysis progress, posts ready for approval, or a nudge to favorite more images for cover variety. Alerts come and go as the album evolves.

  • Posts breakdown. Counts for posts For Approval, Approved, and Published.

  • Description. The narrative summary of the event, either AI-generated or one you've written.

  • Tags. Descriptive chips that help organize albums and inform post generation.

  • Date, venue, location, and photo count.

  • Set to Publishing button. The trigger that tells Social Valet to start generating Instagram and blog posts from this album. Until you click this, no posts are generated.

  • Share this album button. Opens the share flow for sending the album to vendors or clients.

  • Vendors. Read-only list of vendors linked to this album, with their Instagram handle, email, and website where available.

  • Subjects. Read-only list of people associated with the event (bride, groom, parents, etc.).

To add, remove, or update vendors or subjects, use the edit pencil at the top of the sidebar.

[Screenshot: Album page sidebar — full view]

Photo grid

The right side displays every photo in the album. Above the grid, you'll find:

  • A search bar for finding photos by content, tags, or people

  • A Sort & Filter menu

  • Three view toggles: grid, list, and multi-select

[Screenshot: Album page photo grid with search and view toggles]

Triggering post generation

Albums start in Draft status. Social Valet won't generate any Instagram or blog posts until you click Set to Publishing, which moves the album to Active. Once active, the button changes to Stop Publishing if you ever need to pause generation.

This step is intentional — it gives you a chance to review the album details, favorite your hero shots, and clean up tags or moments before AI takes a swing at writing posts. The better the inputs, the better the output.

Album-level actions

The More menu (3-dot icon at the top right of the album page) holds the album-wide actions: uploading more photos, downloading photos, deleting photos, generating Instagram posts on demand, archiving the album, and deleting the album.

Photo-level actions

Hovering over an individual photo reveals a star icon (favorite) and a 3-dot menu (with Set as Album Cover). Clicking a photo opens the lightbox, where you can view, edit, download, or remove it.

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