Your best room or outfit shot belongs in the lookbook, in a collection’s carousel and on the home page. With linked images you build it once, show it in all of them, and edit it in one place: publish, and every gallery that shows it updates.
A strong shot rarely lives in one place. It leads the season’s lookbook, sits in a collection page carousel and turns up again in a home page grid. In a theme, each of those galleries keeps its own copy of the photo and its hotspots, so swapping a product, moving a marker or rewriting the caption means finding and editing every copy — and the one you forget keeps showing the old version.
With linked images the look lives in one place: a section with the Single layout, one photo with its hotspots. Galleries show linked copies of it. Edit the original, publish it, and every gallery that shows it updates — the app tells you how many. You can link a look from the image itself or from inside a gallery.
About ten minutes, on Dawn, Horizon or any Online Store 2.0 theme. Your galleries stay where they are on the store: they just show the linked look.
Create a section with the Single layout: one photo with its hotspots, a phone image if you want one, and a caption. Publish it — galleries show its published version.
In its editor, scroll to In galleries, click Add to gallery, tick the galleries and confirm. No Save needed: a published gallery shows it at once; one with unpublished edits of its own shows it when you publish that gallery.
In a gallery’s editor, click Add linked image in the Images card or in the Linked images card, pick one or more looks, add them, then click Publish changes.
The copy carries a Linked badge and is read-only there: its markers open their popups, but nothing moves. The Linked image panel shows the original and its hotspots.
Click Edit the original, make the change and click Publish changes. The message says how many galleries were updated, and every gallery that shows the look shows the change.
Need another version in one gallery? Select the copy there and click Unlink and edit here. It becomes that gallery’s own image, editable like any other; the other galleries stay linked.
Filmed on a Horizon store: build a look once, add it to two galleries, link another look from inside a gallery, then edit the original and publish.
A linked copy looks and sells like every other image in the gallery. What it doesn’t do is drift: its hotspots can’t be dragged out of step by accident.
The season’s hero looks lead the lookbook grid and also sit in each collection’s carousel — one set of looks, every page in step.
Run the same campaign shot in the home page grid and on the landing page gallery; change a product once and both follow.
A product is replaced or a new one joins the shot: pin it on the original, publish, and every gallery that shows the look has it.
In a theme, each image section keeps its own copy of a photo, so the same look in two galleries means two edits. With linked images in Hotspot Studio, one single-image section can appear in any number of galleries as linked copies, and publishing the original updates all of them.
The photo and its phone version, every hotspot with its product, positions and popup, the caption and button on the image, and its background come from the original. Each gallery decides where the image sits among its other images and keeps its own Shop the Look settings for it.
Any gallery — Grid, Masonry, Carousel, Editorial or Collage — with room for one more image. Grid and Masonry hold up to 48 images, a Carousel 12, a Collage 6 and an Editorial 3.
Nothing changes in the galleries until you publish it, because they show its last published version. Click Publish changes and the message says how many galleries were updated. A gallery with unpublished edits of its own, or one that isn’t published yet, takes the new version when you publish that gallery.
Yes. Select it in that gallery and click Unlink and edit here. The copy becomes the gallery’s own image, editable like any other, and later publishes of the original no longer reach it. The other galleries stay linked.
Starter and up, from $7.99/month with a 7-day free trial. Starter also lifts the Free plan’s limits: unlimited sections, hotspots and custom presets, plus scheduled publishing.
Build a lookbook page that sells, in six no-code steps — then link its best looks into your other galleries.
Hotspot anatomy, all six gallery layouts and where shoppable images work best.
Short step-by-step videos with chapters and transcripts, from your first shoppable image to Shop the Look.
Linked images come with Starter and up — from $7.99/mo with a 7-day free trial.
