What’s new

What has changed in loupe, newest first.

Week of October 12, 2026stanza included, and galleries told as a story

Drag photographs onto the top of your photographs page. A strip to aim at, opening wide as your files arrive.
stanza, included with membership. Rooms of pictures and words, made in stanza, for any page of your site or your Home.
Two new templates that tell a story: fieldbook and overland. Whole pictures down the page under a cover with your gallery’s name, now and then two to four side by side — never cropped.
Rows where you want them. In the layout editor, any work can stand on its own or start a row of two, three or four — or have rows only where you make them.
Your story’s sides. A white margin, a narrow gutter, or right to the edge.
Videos wait for a click. A video on your pages shows a still and loads from YouTube only when a visitor clicks it, protecting their privacy.
Links from your stanza rooms. A room can send readers on to where a poem appeared, and stanza links your name to your site.
A new template: inset. Three photographs across with a margin of white at each side, every picture in a frame of one shape — tall, square or wide.
No photograph twice. Upload a file that’s already in your catalogue, under any name, and loupe says so and links to it instead of making a second copy. Into a gallery, the one you have is put in that gallery.
Your logo on your visitors’ phones. With your own type and logo, a visitor who adds your site to their home screen gets your logo as its icon, drawn on your site’s paper.
The keyboard opens a photograph’s record. Tab to a photograph’s i or its magnifier, and Enter opens it; Space on the tile ticks it.
Never a letter missed. If loupe’s letter before anything goes from a Free catalogue is late, the day moves with it, so you always have the full 30 days and 7 days.

Week of October 5, 2026A raw and its picture found, downloads from your photographs, a new template, and your name in your files

A raw and its picture, found. Upload a raw and the JPEG you exported from it months apart, and loupe notices they belong together and asks before joining them.
Download what you select. Tick photographs or works and click download: one comes as itself, several as one zip, each with its record inside — or beside it, for a file that isn’t a JPEG.
Works only when you need them. If each piece has one photograph, loupe keeps to photographs alone; sculptors and others who photograph a piece from several sides keep works.
One record for each photograph. For a photographer, a photograph’s title, sizes, editions and prices sit on its own page with its caption and keywords.
Your pictures, higher up. The top of your photographs page is shorter: what’s worth a look is one row of links, and search is right above your pictures.
Works of several photographs stand out. Only they are marked — work · 2 photographs — and show can list them alone.
Tick what you make. Paintings and sculpture, say — and mark the one you’re mainly known for; your Home says it, and loupe offers the right tools.
Each piece’s own tools. A bronze offers a model you can turn; a painting doesn’t.
What the camera recorded. A photograph’s page shows its camera, exposure and the moment it was taken — and where the camera was, for you alone: no file a visitor downloads says it.
Your name as who took it. A photographer’s photographs name them in their files — new ones as they arrive, the rest in one click — and never a photograph someone else made.
Taken, or scanned. A photograph says when it was taken; a scan of a slide, negative or print says when it was scanned.
A photograph’s details first. Its page opens with the picture beside its file, camera and dates; the record follows your tick.
Step through an enlarged picture. Arrows and a close button on screen, and a click on the picture still takes you back.
Galleries load faster. Each picture comes at the size your visitor’s screen shows it — a 50-work gallery on a phone can be a third of what it was.
Big galleries answer at once. No waiting for every picture to fade in before you can click one.
Undo says what it undoes. In the layout editor, point at undo to see the change, and the work it puts back is outlined in view; leaving before you keep asks first.
A picture grid on a page opens the work, not the bare image.
Deleted means gone. A photograph you delete for good leaves our storage and every backup within 30 days.
Next follows the wall. Stepping through an enlarged gallery goes in the order your visitors see, and a shared link to one work keeps opening that work after you reorder.
A shorter address. Without a domain of your own, your site is at loupe.pictures/your-name; links you’ve already shared still arrive.
A new template: flush. Four across, edge to edge on white, every picture in a tall, square or wide frame — at first the shape most of your pictures are.
Each template keeps its own layout. Sizes and crops you set stay with that template; try another and it starts fresh, come back and yours returns.
Labels read as captions. The words under each work are smaller and closer together, with the year on its own line.
Look closer on more pictures. Any picture larger than its enlargement now offers the deep zoom — sharp even on a phone after you pinch the page.
Galleries anyone can read. A browser without JavaScript — and the Internet Archive — now sees each gallery’s works, titled and linked.
Your archive, by its name. What was the reading room is now simply your archive, and Home’s galleries shown as rooms are now side by side.

Week of September 28, 2026Raw files that look natural, and an edit button on your own site

Raw files that look natural. A raw loupe develops now starts from a familiar look: natural color and a gentle contrast.
Edit from your own site. An edit in loupe button on every page of your own domain, in your browser only.
Keep what a model was made from. The photographs of a sculpture’s capture, kept whole beside its model.
Your camera raw files. A new paper in the study: what loupe does with a raw file, step by step.
A raw file, added later. Keep a photograph’s camera raw with it from the photograph’s own page, whenever it turns up.
A gallery for people you invite. Only the guests of your archive see it; to everyone else it is hidden.
A way through a wing. A gallery in a wing links up to its wing and across to the galleries beside it.
Your other editing programs' settings, kept. The settings file beside a raw is kept with it as it came, and its stars, keywords and caption are read.

Week of September 21, 2026Wings, several photographs of one work, and a way back from a delete

A press kit. One download on your Press page: your biography, statement and CV, and up to ten pictures at print size with captions.
Camera raw files. Upload them from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm and the rest; kept as they are, shown as the camera captured them.
Sculpture you can turn. Add a model of a work and visitors turn it, from every side, beside its photograph.
A photo spin. Add photographs of a work turning and visitors spin it round, with no 3D file to copy.
Set a model’s front. Turn it until a side faces you and click which side it is.
Your raw and your finished picture, one photograph. Choose them together; the picture is shown and the raw kept with it.
Know what came with a raw. The camera’s own full-size picture is shown when there is one, and each raw says what arrived with it.
Your .xmp comes too. Choose it with the picture; its caption, keywords and stars are read, and your copy to keep keeps every edit setting.
Star ratings. Read from your files, and shown once you turn them on; search stars:4.
Your statement and process pages, designed. Three layouts, a row from your galleries, and a signature where you want it.
Titles and words your way. A bolder title, capitals, sizes and line width, from a pad beside the page.
Your About page, designed. Three layouts with your portrait, a line under your name and your record.
Arrange your Home faster: wings as one row, drag, or send to the top or the end.
Hide a gallery from Home and keep it on your site.
Place each door’s picture on Home, or show it whole on its own background.
Your own words over a featured gallery.
CAPS in the page editor, beside bold and italic.
A copy of what’s new since your last copy, any time.
Move the picture behind a gallery. Drag the page in edit the layout to choose what shows.
A wing’s door on its own background, carried past the picture’s edges.
Your galleries, by wing. Galleries shows your wings, in your Home’s order; open one to see inside.
Faster return visits. Pictures a visitor has seen open at once.
Controls beside your page. Layout, templates and Home open in a narrow column at the side.
Bigger works. A work can take a whole row of a grid.
Make it a work of its own splits a photograph back out of a work.
Backgrounds on cloth. A work shot on cloth can fill its frame with that cloth.
Works or photographs. One switch shows your work by the piece or by the file.
A work’s lead. Choose the photograph that stands for a work.
Recently deleted. What you delete waits up to thirty days, ready to put back.
A background that fills the frame. A work shown whole can carry its own background to the frame’s edges.
More from a gallery’s works page: delete, lend and edit together.
Several photographs of one work, shown in a strip under the enlargement.
One work of these. Select several cards and make them one work.
How many photographs can be said on a label.
See any photograph large from a gallery’s works page.
A slimmer, movable layout bar. Drag it by its grip; double-click to dock it.
What a file is: pixels, print size, size on disk and color, on each photograph’s page.
See it large. A magnifier opens any photograph over the page.
Delete several photographs at once.
Place a wing’s doors as you place a gallery’s works.
Search your galleries by name, wing or template.
From a gallery to its photographs, in one click.
Places in parts: where, town, state and country each have their own box.
A picture’s own colours around it, anywhere it shows.
A gallery names the wing it sits in, with the way back.
Every door carries its gallery’s name.
Seventeen sample galleries, with stained glass, silver, carving, porcelain and tapestry.
A wing’s own colour on colorway.
Your choice of a wing’s leading picture, or all the same size.

Week of September 14, 2026Your archive, your own domain, paying, and galleries by name

The templates page explains itself: a gallery is a body of work, a wing a set of galleries.
Wings. Group your galleries; a wing stands as one door on Home.
A wing wears any template, each picture a door to a gallery.
colorway, a template where you choose the colours.
Build your label: tick what the words beside each work say.
A label under every work, like a museum card.
Give a work more of the grid: up to three columns and two rows.
Pictures smaller or larger, for the whole gallery.
Share your archive three ways: open, by private link, or with people you invite.
A work’s page shows its file’s caption, date, place and keywords.
Mats around a crop on a sheet.
Look closer on your pages: zoom into any picture.
Galleries by name. Valle Crucis lives at /valle-crucis.
Even mats in white, bone, black or the template’s colour.
Undo and redo in the layout editor.
Choose the words beside your works: title, full record or nothing.
Galleries fill your phone.
What your camera wrote waits beside each box, ready to use.
Words you repeat are offered as you type, and spelling variants mended at once.
Pages elsewhere. Link a work to an article; loupe keeps a copy.
Common questions, answered in a line or two.
Panels you can move out of the way.
Changes shown as you make them: the page goes to what changed.
A slideshow on your Home.
Your name readable over any photograph, in white or black.
A layout editor that moves as your hand expects.
Founding artists: a first year with loupe’s compliments, then half price.
Space can be a gift, and it stays given.
Your record travels. Tested in Lightroom and Bridge: everything loupe writes stays.
Fill a photograph’s blanks from its work, if you photograph your own work.
Unsaved changes say so before you leave.
A clearer account page, with your space drawn as two meters.
How to search, every field in plain words.
Galleries and Archive, each with its own place at the top.
Your archive, front and centre.
Upload faster: drag files anywhere onto the page.
Archive search that knows your work, with "Did you mean".
Places travel in your files where photo software looks.
Press. Reviews and interviews, kept once, on your CV, packet and site.
A work built in a place, for installations and site work.
Add a letter or document to your archive.
A year for a work, from its photographs.
Pictures small, medium or large on the photographs page.
More precise dates from your files, in one press.
Your name opens your site.
A guide to the archive, step by step.
Look closer on a work’s own page.
Your steward can take the archive over, with thirty days for anyone to say no.
Your archive can be your front door.
Choose the archive’s ways in: by decade, place, keyword, gallery or kind.
Our promise, terms and privacy, published as drafts.
Your archive, a room visitors can search.
Keep private places private before your archive opens.
Every work has its own page.
You decide what visitors may take away.
You decide what visitors’ files carry.
Letters, notebooks and documents in your archive.
A steward to keep it after you.
Close an archive to changes, open and searchable, for the cost of its space.
What your files already say, read from Lightroom, Bridge and Photo Mechanic.
Add photographs to a work you already made.
Search finds your exhibitions and pages.
What to keep, a paper on which file is the work.
A work lives in one gallery and can be lent to others.
Each gallery keeps its own crop and place for a work.
On loan, marked on the wall.
Ten mediums, from collage to jewellery.
Say what you make in your own words.
Two new ways to hang: scroll and row.
Twenty-nine templates, drawn with work in every medium.
Choose the work that leads a gallery.
A photograph behind your works.
What a file is, under each thumbnail.
Images on a page, placed and cropped.
Enlargements open at once.
A frame of its own shape on a sheet.
A small photograph beside your words.
Your gallery, with its bar: try templates and arrange on the real page.
A code at checkout.
Nothing on your site calls Google.
Your own type and logo.
Your own domain.
Who is pictured: name the people in your photographs.
A submission packet, zipped and numbered for an open call.
The guide, with pictures of the real pages.
A row of pictures on Home.
Sheets, refined: zoom, mats and a link for every sheet.
Links show a picture when pasted.
Become a Member from your account page.
Free and Member plans, on your account page.
An easier page editor.
Write to loupe from your account menu.
A press kit for your pages.
A contact page for visitors.
What’s coming up, on your site and Home.
Your exhibitions, and a CV that writes itself.
Your first hour, in three steps.
A copy of everything, yours to keep.
Search that keeps up with a large catalogue.

Week of September 7, 2026Accounts, your series and galleries, and a copy of everything

Arrange a gallery like a wall.
Find any photograph by anything you’ve written.
Pictures appear sooner after an upload.
Set your Home on your Home.
Choose what your cover photograph shows.
Three more looks, and page colours.
Sheets that stay in view.
Better on your phone.
Each series is a gallery.
See every template with your own photographs.
Add photographs straight into a gallery.
Replace a photograph with a better file; everything else stays.
A front door that looks like you.
Two more looks: editorial and atelier.
Go back in time to any day’s copy.
Your catalogue.
A statement for each series.
A copy of your catalogue in one file.
A Home page, ready from the start.
About and Statement, ready from the start.
Your front door: choose where visitors land.
A full record for every photograph and its work.
Upload your photographs, kept exactly as uploaded.
Display copies, made for you.
Pictures in your pages.
Pages for reading, apart from galleries for looking.
One look for all your pages.
Accounts, by invitation.
A proper record of every work.
Editions, each with its own size and price.
A record that travels in the standard fields.

August 30 – September 5, 2026loupe opens

loupe.pictures opened, with galleries in fifteen looks.
Look closer: zoom deep into a photograph.
Looks for every medium.

Last updated 25 September 2026