How to set different gallery representative photos

[hoppyman]

I currently use the drag and drop editing tool and the set representative option by selecting one gallery thumbnail. I have noticed that some users have a representative thumbnail for an image that is not in the gallery.
Can anyone please explain how this is done?

[parpho]

Highlight the image you want to use and then click on the R on the tool bar. I had to have someone point that out to me. Which makes me wonder how many other bodies do not know.
Cheers,
Michael

[hoppyman]

Thank you Michael. That is the method that I am using too. What I would like to find out is how some members make a photo that is not visible in the gallery the representative for that gallery.

[dw_thomas]

Thank you Michael. That is the method that I am using too. What I would like to find out is how some members make a photo that is not visible in the gallery the representative for that gallery.

Seems rather odd that could even be possible, but I wonder if the individual image could be marked as not visible to the public, but selected as representative? I would think any image used would have to be in that gallery, but maybe it can be invisible to the public for direct viewing.

(Which begs the question -- why? )

[dw_thomas]

Ha! I just tried the scenario I speculated on above and it worked. On a representative image in the middle of a gallery, using 'Edit image', I cleared the check box for "This image can be viewed by anyone." I then logged out and I still see the representative image in the thumbnail for the gallery, but in the gallery itself the image does not show.

Other than to confuse folks I can't think offhand of a reason I would want to do that.

[reticulatus]

I think that could be quite useful where you have a hierarchy of galleries and you want a special picture for the top level gallery that doesn't appear in the gallery itself or any of the sub-galleries.

Thanks for the tip!

[hoppyman]

Thank you for the responses folks.
I am trying to sort out the best way to have a gallery show up always in the popular galleries etc when I add new content (sometimes NSFW in SUB-Galleries)

But separately from that I sometimes look at a gallery because of the representative shown (which is what they are for of course) but the actual shot is not in there.