Share an Image or Video Publicly
Give anyone a link to one picture or video from your canvas. They can view and download it without a Gavana account, and they never see the rest of the canvas.
Before you start
- You need to be able to edit the canvas: its owner, or someone it’s shared with as Can edit.
- The image or video has to be saved in Gavana. One that’s still uploading or generating doesn’t offer a public link yet.
Anyone who has the link can open it, and they can pass it on. Share only what you’re happy for anyone to see.
The whole flow
Watch it once from a picture on your canvas to a copied link, or click a step under the replay to jump to it.
4 stepsFrom a picture on your canvas to a link anyone can open
Right-click the image
On the canvas, right-click the image or video you want to share. Its menu opens.
Open Public link
Choose Public link in the menu. Two choices open beside it.
Choose Share public link
Choose Share public link. Gavana creates the link and opens the Public link dialog, which shows a small preview of what the link opens, the link itself, and “Anyone with this link can view this image. No Gavana account needed.”
Copy the link
Click Copy. The button changes to Copied. Paste the link into a message, an email or a post, then click Done.
On a phone or tablet, Share public link opens your device’s share sheet instead of the dialog, so you can send the link straight to an app. Gavana says Public share ready.
More you can do
Stop sharing
In the Public link dialog, click Stop sharing. You can also right-click the image or video, choose Public link, then Stop public sharing. Gavana says Public sharing stopped, and the link stops working at once: anyone who opens it gets a page that can’t be found.
Stop sharingTurn the link off
The canvas owner can stop any public link on the canvas. An editor can stop the links they created.
If you share the same image again later, it gets a new link. The old one stays off.
What people see
The link opens a simple page with the picture or a video player, its title, Shared from Gavana, and a Download button. The header says Shared image or Shared video. Pasted into a chat app or a social post, an image link shows a preview of the picture.
What they seeThe page your link opens, no account needed
Choose the title people see
The page shows the image or video’s name from your canvas, and the download is named after it. A generated image is often named after its prompt. If you’d rather not show the prompt, rename the image before you share it: right-click it and choose Rename asset.
Share the same link again
While a link is on, choosing Share public link again shows the same link, so you can copy it any time.
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