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# How to Create a Image Gallery from Scratch

## Make a Gallery from Selected Shopify Store Images

A hand-picked image grid allows you to manually select and display specific images in a custom gallery layout. This is ideal for showcasing product collections, portfolios, lookbooks, brand stories, or promotional content. In this guide, you’ll learn how to create and publish a hand-picked image grid using Essential Grid Gallery.


## Table of Contents

* Using Static Source
*  Add Images
* Save & Publish Your Grid


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## Using Static Source & Add Images

Switch into the **Source** tab, and this time set the Content Source to **Static**:


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In the **Editor / Preview**, under there the **Add Gallery Item** sub-section is there:
Click the **Add Image(s)** button:


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The Shopify Store images library (Content-> Files) will open up. click each of the images you’d like to add to the grid, then click the **Choose Images** button at the bottom right corner: button at the bottom right corner:


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Your selection of images will be added into the grid, and it’s now ready to publish.

## Save & Publish Your Grid

Just as we did in the last two tutorials, save the grid, go to  Shopify theme customize, add an **Essential Grid** block to it and select the grid id:
Using the **Custom Grid** content type allows you to fill up a grid with a mix of just about any type of content you like. In this case we’re going to use it to showcase a selection of images chosen from the Shopify Store images (Content > Files).
Your selection of images will be added into the grid, and it’s now ready to publish.


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