A cover image is a wide photo used as the background or representative image for a set of images, articles, or posts.
A gallery cover image is what the client view will open to and an album cover image is what will be designated to each album as thumbnail before the album is opened.
Both gallery cover and album cover will work as a thumbnail for your dashboard, this will help you identify which project you are working on, and set an aesthetic to how your client views all their photos.
How to set a Cover Image?
Open any image in an album
Navigate to the top right corner
Click on Set As Cover option
This will lead you to the screen where you have the option of either setting that photo as a cover image for just that album, or that entire gallery or both. Further, the focus grid on the right lets your position the cover orientation and depicts how it will look on a mobile screen.
Set cover position will save your changes and that cover will be applied to your album, or gallery, or both.