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Community Readings

Create and manage the public Pick a Card and community reading experience.

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Global picker settings

Stage, animation and display

These settings apply to every Community Reading.

Shared empty table

Empty table image This is the reusable clean landscape backdrop behind every Pick a Card selector. PNG, JPEG or WebP up to 5 MB. No table image uploaded

One table for the whole library

You only need to photograph and upload the empty table once. Individual readings only need their thumbnail, card backs spread and revealed spread.

Timing

Card turn, seconds Pause after turn, seconds Button fade, seconds Shuffle flip back, seconds How long revealed cards take to turn face down before the scoop begins. Shuffle scoop in, seconds How long the right-to-left gather takes before the deck shuffle begins. Shuffle phase, seconds Minimum overall shuffle time. Extra cycles may continue only if card data is still loading. Shuffle repetitions How many split-and-recombine shuffles to perform. Defaults to four. Reverse scoop out, seconds How long the four shuffled cards take to sweep back out across the table. Mobile picker Require landscape on small screens

Card placement

Position randomness, px Maximum random horizontal offset. Vertical movement is slightly smaller. Set to 0 for perfectly aligned cards. Rotation randomness, degrees Maximum clockwise or anticlockwise angle. Set to 0 to keep every card straight. Card spread lift, px Positive values move the spread up, negative values move it down, and 0 leaves it centred.

New Community Reading

Create a Community Reading

Pile editors update automatically when the pile count changes.

Question and publishing

Question / title URL slugGenerated from the title if left blank.

Short library description Reading dateThis is the date shown in the public library and controls which repeat reading appears newest.

Status Publishing requires the shared table, all three reading images, a card name and reading text for every pile, and both generated crops for every pile. Library ribbon Website Exclusive Shows a plum Website Exclusive ribbon across the thumbnail and description seam.

Artwork and Pick a Card photographs

The backs and reveal photos are detected separately, then paired left to right. Save the reading first, then generate and review the clean card crops below.

Library thumbnail Artwork representing the overall question. Up to 5 MB. No image uploaded Card backs spread Full photograph with every selectable pile in place. Up to 5 MB. No image uploaded Revealed spread Full photograph with the corresponding cards revealed. Up to 5 MB. No image uploaded

Piles

Number of pilesAdmin only. The pile count is never shown as catalogue metadata.

Generated editors4 pilesEach pile gets its own card name, public reading, generated back crop and generated reveal crop.

Card crop review

Generate clean pile cards

The backs photo and revealed photo are analysed separately on this device. The browser finds each card's four corners, straightens it locally, then pairs the finished cards left to right. Any loose corner fit can be corrected manually.

Save the reading and upload both spread photos first. Crop previews will appear here once the source images are available.

Pick a Card intro Instruction shown above the selector

Community Reading drafts, settings and published pages are connected to the live storefront. Four-corner card extraction, perspective straightening and manual corner correction run locally in your browser for saved readings.

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Stage, animation and display

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