Guide

Vieuli turns your trip photos into a simple, beautiful book to share with the people back home. You add your days and photos, pick a theme, and send a private link.

Everything you share is view-only (a link + a 4-digit PIN). The people you send it to can browse the book, but they can't change anything.

Always start from dos.onefour5.com/ — note the dos. at the front and the trailing slash. Plain onefour5.com is a different site. Bookmark it (or add it to your Home Screen) so it's easy to get back to.

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1 Signing in

There are two ways in. The email sign-in link works on every device, and once you're in you can turn on a faster Face ID / fingerprint sign-in that skips email next time.

Email sign-in link — works everywhere:

1. Go to the Vieuli sign-in page and type your email.
2. Tap Send sign-in link.
3. Open the newest email and tap its link — it brings you right back, signed in. No password to remember. (If a link expires, just request a new one.)

Faster sign-in with Face ID / fingerprint — recommended: once you're signed in, look for "Set up Face ID" in the ☰ menu (top corner) or the banner, and follow the prompt. After that, tap "Sign in with Face ID" and unlock with your face, fingerprint, or computer login — no email needed. The email link always stays available as a backup.

Your device	Quickest sign-in	Always works
iPhone / iPad	Face ID (or Touch ID)	Email sign-in link
Android phone / tablet	Fingerprint / screen unlock	Email sign-in link
Windows computer	Windows Hello	Email sign-in link

2 Your home: "My trips"

After signing in you land on My trips — an accordion list of your books. If you don't have any yet, it opens straight to the builder so you can start your first one.

Click a trip to open it. Inside each one you'll find:

• Share with viewers — the view-only link + PIN to send to family and friends, with buttons to Copy link, Share, show a QR code, and View (see the finished book exactly as they'll see it).
• Theme — the book's colors and fonts.
• Comments — review comments left on this book (see section 6).
• The list of days, each with Edit and up/down arrows to reorder.
• + Add a day, Copy this trip (section 8), and Delete this trip.

The ☰ menu in the top corner holds the Guide, Make a book (section 7), Set up Face ID, and Sign out.

3 Creating your book

1. From My trips, start a new trip and give it a name (if you have no trips yet, it opens straight to the builder).
2. + Add a day, then add your photos (see section 4 for how to get the best result) and write a caption under each one.
3. Publish & share when the day is ready, or Save draft to keep working — a draft stays private ("Draft — not shared yet") until you publish it.

A couple of things worth knowing:

• A "day" is really a chapter — one day can cover several real days if you like (e.g. "Badminton Horse Trials" = three days). Label it however you want.
• Adding a day joins the same trip, so the link and PIN never change — new days just appear for viewers. Nothing to resend.
• The "share" checkbox under each photo controls whether it appears in the book. Tick it to show the photo; untick it to hide it (it shows "Hidden from the book" and disappears for viewers). Hiding never deletes it, so you can always tick it back on.
• You own your trips fully, including the Delete this trip option.

4 Adding photos — for the best result

Upload the originals straight from your phone (or import the originals via USB). Copies that came through Messages, WhatsApp, Google Photos, email, or an iCloud-web download usually arrive compressed and often with their date and location stripped — so they can show the wrong day and no place. The originals in your camera roll keep everything, and they print better later.

• Captions, sharing & order: add a caption to each photo, use the share toggle (unshared photos stay private to you), and drag to reorder.
• Dates: Vieuli places a photo by the date it was taken. If a photo shows a "no photo time" tag, its date was missing — set it with the date picker and type the place in the location box.
• Wrong day? Open the day, and on the photo use "Move to day" to send it to the right one.
• Remove a photo with its remove link — that takes it out of the day you're building (it doesn't delete the original), then Save.
• The "10 photos" cap you may see is your phone's picker, per selection — not a limit on the day. Just add more and they stack.

5 Choosing a theme

Open a trip → Theme to set the book's colors and fonts. It applies while you're building a day and on the shared link. Click View anytime to see the final look.

6 Sharing & comments

Open a trip → Share with viewers. Send the link and the 4-digit PIN. The most reliable way is Copy link, then paste it into any text or email. Share opens your phone's share sheet (Messages, Mail, WhatsApp…), and View shows the finished book.

When a viewer opens the link they:

• enter the PIN,
• browse the book day by day (a "Choose a day" picker sits at the top),
• and can leave a short comment under any photo (just a name + a note). They can delete their own comment, but only from the same browser they posted it in.

They cannot edit the book, add photos, or see anything you haven't shared. One link + one PIN covers the whole trip — as you add days, they simply appear.

Managing comments on your book: open a trip → Comments. Each comment has:

• Hide — keeps the comment but stops it reaching viewers or printing; tap Show to bring it back.
• Delete — removes it for good.

7 Making a printable book

Beyond the online book, you can lay out a printable photo book and save it as a PDF to order from a print service (Blurb's "PDF to Book" works well — it has been tested end to end, from export to accepted upload). Open the ☰ menu → "Make a book", pick a trip, then arrange photos and captions on each page, choose a size and fonts, and Export PDF. The higher-quality copies of your photos, kept behind the scenes, are used for print — one more reason to upload originals (section 4).

A trip has one book, and it belongs to whoever owns the trip. If a trip was shared with you as a co-author, you'll see it greyed out in the "Make a book" list: that book is the owner's, and editing it would rearrange their pages. To make your own version, use Copy this trip (section 8) — the copy is yours, and it gets its own book.

Arranging a page

• Drag a photo, caption or comment anywhere on the page. Small nudges move exactly as far as you drag; longer moves line up gently with the edges and centres of whatever is already on the page.
• Corner dot — resizes the whole photo, keeping its shape.
• Edge grips, the four small bars on a selected photo — change the width or the height on its own. Pull a side out and the photo gets wider without getting taller; pull the bottom up and it gets shorter at the same width. The picture re-fills the new shape, showing more or less of itself as needed.
• Crop — opens a window for choosing exactly which part of a photo shows. Esc, or a click outside it, closes it.
• Select two or more things for Align (left, centre, right, top, middle, bottom) to line them up — captions included. Select two or more photos for Same size, which gives them all the dimensions of the largest.
• Select exactly two photos for Side by side: they're placed as a matched pair, same height, evenly spaced and centred — whatever their shapes.

Photos, pages and comments

• The strip along the bottom holds every photo in the trip. Click one to drop it on the page you're viewing, or drag it exactly where you want it. Tick "Hide the N already in the book" to clear away the ones you've used.
• To move something to another page, select it and use Move to page — a photo takes its caption and comments with it.
• In the page list on the left, the selected page gets buttons to send it to the front or back of the book, or nudge it one place — handy for putting a title page first.
• Comments your viewers left are placed under their photos automatically. If any are missing, Add comments in the top bar fills in whatever's absent without disturbing your layout.

Adding more photos later

When you add photos to the trip after starting a book, a banner offers two choices. They are very different:

• Add them — puts the new photos on fresh pages at the back of the book and doesn't touch a single page you've already arranged. This is almost always what you want.
• Re-flow (rebuild) — rebuilds every page from scratch. A clean start, but any arranging you've done is gone. It asks first.

Exporting and printing

• The Pages box beside Export PDF exports part of the book — type 1-36, or leave it blank for all of it. Useful for ordering a short test print before committing to the whole book. The line next to it says exactly what you're about to get; if it turns red, it couldn't read what you typed.
• Every export adds a title page at the front and pads with blank pages to reach the 20-page minimum printers require, so even a short test comes out as a valid book.
• Printed sizes are smaller than their names. A book called "10×8" actually trims to 9.625 × 8.25 inches. The top bar shows the real printed size next to the one you picked — keep anything important away from the very edge of the page.
• Emoji don't print. Print fonts have no picture characters, so an emoji in a caption or comment is left out of the PDF. It still shows online.

Your book saves itself as you work, and it's kept quite separate from the online version — rearranging pages here never changes what your viewers see. Captions you type into the book stay in the book, too: they don't rewrite the photo's caption in the trip.

8 "Copy this trip" — tailoring for one audience

Copy this trip makes a brand-new, independent trip that starts as a copy of the original (same days and photo selections — references only, it doesn't duplicate the photo files). Use it when you want a version tailored to one audience: copy it, then trim the copy without changing the original. The copy is yours, with its own link and PIN.

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9 Roles — Admins, Co-authors, Guests & Viewers

Three kinds of people use Vieuli. Which one you are can depend on the trip — an Admin can also be a co-author or a viewer on someone else's book.

Admin — creates trips and invites people in; usually whoever set up the account. An Admin can create trip books, invite co-authors, manage comments, and delete a trip they own. The printable book of any trip they own is theirs alone. The one thing only an Admin can do is invite a new co-author (editor) — so if this ever became a paid product, the account holder would be the Admin.

Co-author — invited by an Admin to help build a particular trip (Vicki and Kim are co-authors on UK 2026). A co-author can:

• add their own photos and days to that trip, alongside everyone else's;
• edit or remove only their own photos and captions — not another author's;
• add photos to any day, but rename or reorder only the days they created themselves;
• show/hide any photo, manage comments, and share view-only links;
• create their own trips and copies, too.

A co-author can't invite other editors — that stays with Admins — and can't make the printable book for someone else's trip. Each trip has one book and it belongs to the trip's owner, so that nobody's page arrangement can be rebuilt from under them. Copy the trip and the copy's book is yours (sections 7 and 8).

Guest — invited by an Admin to use Vieuli for their own trips, without joining anyone else's. A guest builds their own trip books and shares view-only links exactly like an Admin does, including the printable book for their own trips. The difference is that a guest isn't attached to anybody else's trip: they can't see or edit the trips of the person who invited them, that person can't open theirs, and a guest can't invite anyone. If an Admin later removes a guest, the books they've already made stay theirs and their share links keep working — they just can't start new ones.

Viewer — anyone you share a link + PIN with. No sign-in, nothing to install. A viewer opens the link, enters the 4-digit PIN, browses the finished book day by day, and can leave a short comment under any photo (and delete their own, from the same browser). A viewer can't edit anything, add photos, or see what you haven't shared.

Quick reference — who can do what

Questions? Ask whoever invited you.