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Wix Pro Gallery: Adding a Shadow to Your Gallery Items

Lord Of The Wix · Oct 25, 2026

Add depth to your gallery and make your images pop by applying and customizing shadows. The shadow is visible behind your gallery at all times.


A screenshot of a gallery with shadows on a live site.

Note:


You can only enable the shadow feature in certain layouts, and when specific gallery settings are applied. Read on to learn more about the applicable layouts and required settings.


Enabling and customizing shadows


First, enable the shadow feature for your Pro Gallery. Then customize the shadow's color, direction, blurriness and size to make it your own.


Wix Editor


  1. Go to your editor.

  2. Click the pro gallery element on your page.

  3. Click Settings.

  4. Click the Design tab.

  5. Click Item Style.

  6. Enable the Shadow toggle.

  7. Customize the shadow using the following options:

    • Shadow opacity & color: Click the color box to change the shadow's color and drag the slider to adjust the color's intensity.

    • Blur: Drag the slider to set the shadow's blurriness.

    • Shadow direction: Drag the slider to position your shadow exactly as you want.

    • Shadow size: Drag the slider to increase or decrease your shadow's size.


A screenshot highlighting the Shadow option.

Studio Editor


  1. Go to your editor.

  2. Click the pro gallery element on your page.

  3. Click Settings.

  4. Click the Design tab.

  5. Click Item Style.

  6. Enable the Shadow toggle.

  7. Customize the shadow using the following options:

    • Shadow opacity & color: Click the color box to change the shadow's color and drag the slider to adjust the color's intensity.

    • Blur: Drag the slider to set the shadow's blurriness.

    • Shadow direction: Drag the slider to position your shadow exactly as you want.

    • Shadow size: Drag the slider to increase or decrease your shadow's size.


A screenshot highlighting the Shadow option.

Applicable layouts


To apply shadows to a gallery with one of the following layouts, certain settings must already be in place. Click a layout below to learn more:


Collage

The Scroll Direction must be set to Vertical. This setting appears Image Settings in the Customize Layout Panel.


Masonry

Depending on how you have your gallery oriented, do the following:


Grid

Set the Scroll Direction to Vertical and the Thumbnail Resize to Crop under Image Settings in the Customize Layout Panel.

Notes:


Strip


Bricks, Mix and Alternate

No specific settings need to be applied - the shadow feature is always available.


Note:


The shadow feature is not available in the Thumbnails, Slider, Slide show, and Column layouts.


This article is credited to the Wix team - https://support.wix.com/ and we thank them for that!

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