Managing Your Photos

You can manage your photos associated with your Frame using the Skylight Desktop App:

• Create and manage Albums to organize your photos.
• Manage individual photos.
• Copy or delete multiple photos.

Manage Photo Albums

Select Albums to view the Albums screen.

This feature is only available with Frame Plus subscription. If you wish to upgrade to Skylight Plus, please see https://www.myskylight.com/products/skylight-plus/

Add a New Album

Add new albums to organize your photos. 

1. Select New Album.
2. Type the name for the new album in the Album name textbox.
3. Select Save.

Add Photos to An Album

1. Select an album.
2. Select the add button.
   
3. Select one or more photos from the gallery.
   Selected photos will dim slightly, and show a blue check in the corner.
4. Select Add to Album.

Remove Photos From An Album

1. Select an album.
2. Select Select.
3. Select one or more photos from the gallery.
   Selected photos will dim slightly, and show a blue check in the corner.
4. Select Remove from album.
   The selected photos will not be deleted.

Delete Photos In An Album

1. Select an album.
2. Select Select.
3. Select one or more photos from the gallery.
   Selected photos will dim slightly, and show a blue check in the corner.
4. Select Delete.
5. Select OK to confirm.

This will remove the photo from the album, and delete it from all of your devices.

Play the Album As a Slideshow

1. Select Slideshow.
2. Choose if you want the slideshow to play in the Skylight Desktop App, or on your Frame.

Rename the Album

1. Select Rename.
2. Type the new name in the textbox.
3. Select Save.

Delete the Album

1. Select Delete.
2. Select Delete to confirm.

Deleting an album will not remove any of the photos in that album. All of the photos that were in the deleted album will remain on the device.

Manage Individual Photos 

Select any photo in the gallery to get a larger view of the photo and a menu of options.

For each photo in the gallery, you can:

• Like and unlike the photo.
• Edit the photo’s caption.
• Delete the photo.
• Manage photo comments.

Like and Unlike a Photo

When viewing a photo, select the Like button to like or unlike the photo.

Edit the Photo’s Caption

This feature is only available with Frame Plus subscription. If you wish to upgrade to Skylight Plus, please see https://www.myskylight.com/products/skylight-plus/

1. Select the Caption button to open the Caption screen.
2. On the Caption screen, select the Add a caption textbox and type in a caption.
   You are limited to 50 characters per caption.
3. Select Save.

The caption will appear in a black bar at the bottom edge of the photo.

Editing the caption and removing all of the text will remove the caption bar entirely.

Delete the Photo

1. Select Delete.
2. Select Delete to confirm.

Photo Comments

Add comments to the photo:

1. Select the Add a comment textbox.
   The textbox is below the photo. You may need to swipe past the photo to see the textbox.
2. Type your comment into the textbox.
3. Select Save.

Photo comments are displayed below the photo.

Select and hold a comment to delete it.

Manage Multiple Photos

Delete Multiple Photos

1. Select Select.
2. Select one or more photos from the gallery.
   Selected photos will dim slightly, and show a blue check in the corner.
3. Select Delete.
4. Select OK to confirm.

Copy Multiple Photos to Another Device

1. Select Select.
2. Select one or more photos from the gallery.
   Selected photos will dim slightly, and show a blue check in the corner.
3. Select Copy to.
4. On the Copy assets screen, choose which devices will get copies of the selected photos.
   Choose one or more devices.
5. Select Copy Assets.