Hide product variant images from product main gallery

Topic summary

A user working with the Ride theme wants to hide variant-specific images from the product’s main gallery while keeping them associated with their respective variants. The images should still appear when a variant is selected, just not displayed in the general product image gallery.

Attempted Solution:
The user considered assigning Alt Text to variant images and then hiding all images with that specific Alt Text, though they’re uncertain if this approach is feasible.

Status: The issue remains unresolved with no responses yet. A store link was provided for reference if needed.

Summarized with AI on November 18. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

I am using the ride theme, I was wondering if there is a way to hide the variant set image from the main image gallery for the product. I would like to still have it associated with the variant just not displayed in the product’s main gallery.

Current progress: I have thought of maybe assigning an Alt text to the variant images and then hiding all images with that Alt Text but I’m not sure if that’s possible.

store link if needed: https://fleura-5661.myshopify.com