Make the next handoff work
Practical buying guides
Choose the workflow you need, then use the checklists and worked examples to test it.
Choose Photo Gallery Software for Your Studio
Evaluate client selections, downloads, editing handoffs and cost with one real gallery.
Explore 9 focused guides →02Commercial Photo Proofing Workflows: From Product ID to Approval
Connect each selected photograph to its product, intended use and final retouch instructions.
Explore 9 focused guides →03Photo Delivery Workflows for Schools, Events and Publicity
Deliver the approved selection with the right names, recipients and publication context.
Explore 9 focused guides →04Photo Proofing and Editing Handoffs: Keep Every Pick Traceable
Carry the client’s selection from the gallery to the correct source, treatment and final export.
Explore 9 focused guides →05Photo Delivery and Retention Planning for Studios
Keep gallery viewing, temporary downloads and master recovery understandable to the client.
Explore 9 focused guides →Guides
Straightforward guides for working photographers: comparing platforms, the Lightroom workflow, proofing, and delivering galleries your clients love.
Client Gallery Alternatives: Every Platform Compared
Pixieset, Pic-Time, ShootProof, CloudSpot and more: what each is good and bad at.
Pixieset Alternative: One Flat Plan Instead of Storage Tiers
What Pixieset does well, where its storage tiers and fair-use clause bite, who should stay, and a whole-account import.
How to Switch From Pixieset Without Re-uploading Everything
A six-step plan: audit, one-click whole-account import, check galleries side by side, swap links, then cancel on your terms.
How to Export Galleries From Pixieset: What You Get
Pixieset's Export button writes a CSV of gallery details, not photos. The two ways to get the images out, step by step.
Pixieset vs clientgallery.io: An Honest Head-to-Head
Twelve rows of official figures: price ladder, storage, branding, commission, RAW, import path, plugin, downloads and expiry.
How Much Does Pixieset Actually Cost per Month?
The five tiers in US dollars, the annual-billing catch, the 15% free-plan commission and a year's cost for three studios.
Pic-Time Alternative: One Flat Plan, No Store
Pic-Time's four storage tiers beside one flat 10 $/month delivery and proofing plan, and who should stay on Pic-Time.
ShootProof Alternative: One Flat Plan, No Archive Fees
ShootProof's gigabyte plans and its archiving charge below Premium, verified from its own pages, beside one flat plan.
PASS Gallery Alternative: One Flat Plan, No Commission
PASS's five subscription tiers, from 1 $/month billed annually to 125 $/month, against one flat plan with no commission.
The Two-Way Lightroom Client Gallery Workflow
Publish proofs, collect picks, and pull the chosen frames back into your catalog.
Client Photo Proofing: The Complete Guide
Set up proofing galleries, guide selections, and deliver finals without scope creep.
Delivering Photos to Clients: The Complete Guide
Galleries vs transfers, full-res downloads, branding, and archiving your masters.
How to Get Client Photo Picks Back Into Lightroom
One Plug-in Extras command turns likes into 3 stars, loves into 5 stars and a Pick flag, and colour labels into Lightroom labels.
Publish a Client Gallery Straight From Lightroom Classic
Set up the studio key once, name the gallery, press Export. What the plugin decides for you, and why.
A Lightroom Publish Service That Syncs an Online Gallery
New and Modified tracking, why metadata changes do not re-push, and which actions are destructive on the gallery side.
Update a Client Gallery After Re-editing in Lightroom
Re-edited photos land in the Modified queue and replace themselves on the next Publish. No deleting, no re-sending the link.
Pixieset vs clientgallery.io: The Lightroom Plugin Compared
Both publish out of Lightroom. Only one returns the client's picks to the catalog as flags, stars and a collection.
Is There an Unlimited Client Gallery for a Flat Price?
Yes, and here is exactly where the fair-use ceiling sits, plus what every other unlimited tier has written down somewhere.
Per-Gallery Pricing vs a Subscription
The per-event model has largely left this category. The arithmetic anyway, and the hidden variable that decides it.
Pixieset vs Pic-Time vs ShootProof: Pricing Compared
Three ladders side by side at a real wedding volume, where each fee hides, and a year of costs with the working shown.
Pic-Time vs Pixieset: Which Is Better?
Commission, branding, Lightroom and the over-quota rules, refereed on published figures, with a verdict per kind of studio.
CloudSpot vs Pixieset for Photographers
Gallery-count caps, file types by tier, split branding rows, and what each one publishes about running out of storage.
The Best Client Gallery for Wedding Photographers
Judged by job rather than ranked: the 1,200-photo gallery, the gallery that still works in two years, and the picks round trip.
Pixieset vs ShootProof: Commission, Price and Gallery Expiry
The two most-compared gallery platforms on the lines that decide it: where each takes its cut, what it costs to start, and what happens to an old gallery.
Pic-Time vs ShootProof: Commission First, Then Price
One takes a cut of what you sell, the other charges a flat subscription instead. The crossover priced across a year of print markup, then both ladders.
CloudSpot vs ShootProof: Where the Money Is Taken
Two platforms aimed at the same studio: where the cut comes from, how storage is metered and sold, what a free-tier client downloads, and gallery expiry.
Zenfolio vs Pixieset: What Is Published and What Is Not
Built only on what each company states on its own pages, and just as clear about the figures neither one publishes anywhere.
Pixieset Storage Limit Reached: What to Do
What Pixieset documents, the two questions it never answers, and why deleting to free space cannot be undone.
picdrop Gallery Not Visible to a Client?
picdrop publishes the cause in its own words: over-limit files can no longer be accessed by third parties, such as your clients.
ShootProof Charging for Archived Galleries
There is no per-album fee. The real price is account-level, and archived galleries are not live for client viewing.
ShootProof Lightroom Plugin Keeps Crashing?
ShootProof documents no crashes. It does document a reliability disclaimer and three failure modes with fixes.
Pixieset Alternative With Faster Galleries
Nobody publishes a benchmark, so we will not invent one. What actually governs gallery speed, and how to test it yourself.
Pixieset Alternative Without a Print Store
Delivery without a storefront attached, for studios that do not sell prints.
CloudSpot Alternative: One Flat Plan
CloudSpot's gallery counts and storage tiers against one flat plan, and who should stay.
picdrop Alternative for Client Delivery
picdrop is proofing-first and metered by storage. Where a flat delivery plan fits instead.
Zenfolio Alternative for Photographers
What Zenfolio bundles, what it charges for, and the delivery-only comparison.
SmugMug for Client Proofing: The Alternative
SmugMug is a portfolio host first. What that costs you on the proofing side.
What Is the Cheapest Pixieset Alternative?
The honest answer by volume, including when a free tier beats paying anyone.
The Pixieset Free Plan 15% Commission, Explained
Charged on the pre-discount subtotal, stacked on processor fees, and owed even on a coupon to zero.
Stop Retyping Client Photo Filenames Into Lightroom
Every platform hands picks back as filenames to paste. Why that paste is lossy in Adobe's own words, and the command that writes them instead.
A Proofing Gallery That Flags Favorites in Your Catalog
A love becomes five stars and a Pick flag, a star becomes three. No competitor writes flags or ratings back at all.
A Gallery Where Clients Choose Which Photos to Edit
Publish from the catalog, the client stars and loves, and the picks return as the edit queue. The loop closed in one tool.
A Proofing Gallery With Two Levels of Favorites
One tap stars, two taps love. What every other platform offers instead, and when their multiple lists are the better tool.
Export Client Picks as a Filename List for Capture One
Capture One has a command built for exactly this. Select, Select By, Filename List, with a delimiter menu and an extension toggle.
A Client Proofing Workflow for Capture One
Capture One Live is a review room that expires. A gallery is a delivery surface that stays. How to run both, honestly compared.
A Client Gallery That Works With Hasselblad Phocus
Phocus documents no gallery feature, and this loop needs none. A plain filename list slots into any RAW processor.
How to Get Clients to Choose Their Photos Faster
Friction removal, not more reminders: fewer photos, chapters instead of one scroll, and a two-pass sort that beats choosing.
Client Taking Weeks to Pick Their Photos?
Two states, two different messages. What you can genuinely see per gallery, and what no platform can tell you.
Remind Clients to Pick Their Photos Without Nagging
One reminder aimed at the right state beats three guilt-laden follow-ups. Plus how to stop having to chase at all.
Photo Selection Reminder Email Templates
Four templates you can paste, keyed to moments rather than invented telemetry, each with the reason it is shaped that way.
How Long Should Clients Have to Choose Their Photos?
Our recommendation is 7 to 14 days, with the reasoning, the wording that makes it stick, and what software cannot enforce.
How to Tell if a Client Has Viewed Their Gallery
The opened indicator answers it at a glance. What the account-wide dashboard adds, and the limits stated plainly.
Get Notified the Moment a Client Picks Their Photos
Push lands on your phone when picks are sent. What each of the four major platforms documents instead.
The Client Picked More Photos Than Their Package
Turn overshoot into an upsell using their own ranking, and the one competitor that caps the count up front.
Help Clients Narrow Down Photos for Their Album
A two-pass method that ends album paralysis, and the loved set arrives in Lightroom already flagged and collected.
How Many Photos Should a Proofing Gallery Hold?
Our recommendation by job, said plainly as a recommendation, plus the cull and the sections that make a big gallery navigable.
How Do Photographers Send Proofs to Clients?
The whole modern flow end to end, and a sourced table of what each platform actually hands back at the end of a selection round.
How Do I Let Clients Pick Their Favorite Photos Online?
A star is a maybe, a love is a yes. No account, no app, one tap to send, and named lists credited where they win.
Client Gallery Proofing Without a Print Store
Every commission rate, verified. Then the honest reading: on paid plans it is usually already zero, so keep the store if you sell prints.
How to Deliver Final Images to an Ad Agency
Three handoffs in sequence: review, selects, signoff. Including what to do when the agency has its own DAM.
A Photo Proofing Workflow for Art Directors
Written from both sides of the round, ending with picks in the catalog as flags and stars instead of a retyped spreadsheet.
Get Photo Selects From a Client Without a Spreadsheet
The spreadsheet is the symptom. Four failure modes, five platforms compared, and the filename list for people culling elsewhere.
RAW or JPEG for a Client Proofing Gallery?
Upload JPEG, argued rather than asserted: what a good proof export actually is, and the three cases where a client genuinely does need the originals.
How Many Photos Should a Wedding Photographer Deliver?
No association publishes an average, so we do not invent one. Count from your own coverage, write a minimum into the contract, and shape the gallery for it.
Wedding Photo Proofing Gallery: The Delivery Plan
One event, several audiences, two delivery waves: the sneak peek, chapters as sub-galleries, the album selection pass, and the vendor handoff nobody plans.
Senior Portrait Proofing Gallery: The Selection Pass
The senior is in the photographs and the parent pays and picks. Build the gallery by outfit change around that split and the round ends in a decision.
Family Photo Session Online Gallery: One Link, Every Relative
A distribution problem, not a selection problem. One link a grandmother opens on a tablet with no account, sub-galleries only when they earn it, honest download limits.
Real Estate Photo Delivery to Agents: A Same-Day System
High volume, thin margin, an agent opening the link on a phone: one gallery per address, sub-galleries by deliverable, no login, and a link that lasts.
A WeTransfer Alternative for Photographers
Not about quality: WeTransfer publishes a lossless claim and we credit it. It is about the link dying and the gallery staying.
How to Send Full Resolution Photos to a Client
Every delivery holds two different files. The proof you browse and the full-resolution ZIP, and why confusing them causes the trouble.
Send 100 GB of Photos to a Client
The arithmetic done properly: frame counts, download times at five connection speeds, and why a shipped drive sometimes wins.
A Gallery and a Full-Resolution ZIP From One Link
One link does both jobs. Honest about the seam: the link is permanent, the three-day handoff window is not.
Dropbox vs a Client Gallery for Photo Delivery
The money is roughly a wash, so nobody should switch over price. Four things a shared folder cannot do, and five reasons to keep it.
Photo Delivery Email Templates: Five to Paste
Subject, body and the reason each is shaped that way, built so the email stays three sentences and a link.
How to Get Paid Before Delivering Photos
The deposit and the contract do the real work. Our gate is manual and we say so, and Pixieset wins this job outright.
How Long Do Client Photo Galleries Stay Online?
Four different clocks people confuse. Expiry is opt-in nearly everywhere, and no gallery on any platform is an archive.
How Can Clients Post Gallery Photos to Instagram?
Instagram's live ratio rules, not the stale ones everyone quotes, and why giving credit is not the same as having permission.
How to Onboard a Client to Your Photo Gallery
The delivery message that prevents a week of questions: what the gallery is, how many photos, how to download, what resolution, and what you need back by when.
Client Says Photos Are Missing From the Gallery: What to Check
Run this before you promise a re-upload: six causes in order of likelihood, from an older link or an unopened sub-gallery to an upload that never finished.
How to Handle Client Photo Revision Requests
Sort the list into corrections, preferences and retouching, then give each bin an answer, a price and a deadline you can actually hold.
Let Wedding Guests Find Their Photos From One Selfie
A guest takes one selfie, the matching runs on their own device, and they leave with their own photos. What the couple controls, and what is never stored.
Face Recognition in a Guest Gallery, Included in the Plan
Elsewhere face search sits behind the top tier or a per-gallery fee. Here it is part of the one flat plan, with the limits written down.
Event Photos Every Attendee Can Find Themselves
Publish one gallery for the whole event instead of sorting people into folders. Every attendee self-serves and you stop fielding requests.
Is Face Recognition in a Photo Gallery Private?
What gets computed, where it runs, how long it lives, and the uses we deliberately do not offer at all.
A White-Label Client Gallery on Your Own Subdomain
Your name in the header, your subdomain in the address bar, no platform badge on the page. Where the white label stops, said plainly.
A Branded Client Portal Without a Client Login
One parent gallery per client holds every shoot behind a single link. No account to create, no password for them to lose.
Password-Protect a Client Gallery: What It Gates
The password covers the gallery, the downloads and the full-resolution ZIP. What it cannot cover, and when a password is the wrong tool.
How to Share Unreleased Campaign Photos
A working procedure for pre-release material: a narrow link, watermarked proofs, dated approvals. Honest about what software cannot enforce.
Organize Multiple Shoots for One Client
One link for the client, a section per shoot, one level deep on purpose. Why a deeper folder tree makes a gallery worse.
A Permanent Photo Portal for a Repeat Client
Commercial accounts change staff. One link that outlives the marketing manager who first received it, and how to hand it over cleanly.
Why Is Your Client Gallery Slow?
The four things that actually govern gallery speed on any platform, and how to measure yours in a browser tab instead of guessing.
A Proofing Gallery for 100-Megapixel Files
Medium format breaks the assumptions most galleries make about file size. What to publish for proofing and what to hold back for delivery.
Deliver Fujifilm GFX Photos to Clients
The whole pipeline in order: capture, proofs the client can browse, the full-resolution handoff, and the file sizes to expect at each step.
ShootProof Slow Gallery Alternative: Diagnose It First
Find the cause before you pay a migration cost and keep the problem: file size, photo count, the client's phone, distance. Then the honest case for moving.
Photos That Land in the Gallery While You Shoot
The gallery fills as you work, frame by frame. What this is not: not a video feed, and not a replacement for your backups.
Let a Client Watch the Shoot From Anywhere
The remote art director keeps one link open and sees frames arrive. How to run the approval round without the client in the room.
How Long Should You Keep Client Photos?
Set a retention policy on purpose rather than by accident: a recommendation by job, the contract wording, and what to say when a client comes back in five years.
Where to Keep Original Files After Client Delivery
The week after a delivery: separate the client copy, the working copy and the archive copy, strip what does not belong, and name the folder so it still reads in five years.
Affordable Archive Storage for a Photography Studio
A shelf of ageing drives turned into an archive you can price and restore from: what to keep, what the three real options cost per terabyte, and how to verify it.
A Dropbox Alternative for Photographers
Not storage against storage. A shared folder cannot take a pick, and on free Dropbox it cannot take a password either.
A Google Drive Alternative for Photo Delivery
Drive hands the client a viewer and a sign-in prompt. Plus the Google Photos setting that resizes and re-encodes, in Google's own words.
A SmugMug Alternative Without Storage Tiers
SmugMug scopes its own unlimited to full-resolution JPEG with RAW sold separately. Every unlimited is scoped, so here are our ceilings in full.
Is Pixieset Worth It?
A verdict rather than a takedown: what the money buys, who should keep paying it, and the one studio shape it fits badly.
Do I Need a Client Gallery Platform?
Often no, and this page says so. The shoots-per-month threshold where a folder link stops being cheaper, and what breaks first.
How to Share Photos With Clients Privately
What a password actually stops, what it plainly does not, and which tools gate privacy behind a paid plan.
picdrop vs Pixieset: Two Different Jobs
A commercial delivery tool against a consumer gallery suite, compared on workflow and published policy rather than on prices neither one exposes.
A Lightroom Export Preset for Client Galleries
Worth saving once, and worth less here than elsewhere: the publish service pushes from the catalog, so the Export dialog is the fallback.
Lightroom Cloud or Classic for Client Galleries?
The two-way plugin is Classic only. What a cloud-only photographer's workflow looks like without it, and what they do not lose.
A Client Gallery on Your Own Domain
Your own subdomain and no platform badge on the one plan. Also the straight answer on custom domains, which are not supported.
What a Client Gallery Feels Like on a Phone
Most clients pick on a phone. One tap stars, two taps love, the download button stays visible, and the honest limits of judging on a small screen.
A Photo Gallery Link That Never Expires
What the promise depends on, stated up front, and the one part that is time-boxed: the three-day full-resolution handoff.
How Many Client Galleries Can I Have?
No gallery count and no per-gallery fee, with the real ceilings named and the arithmetic that turns 500,000 photos into a gallery count.
What File Size Should Client Proofs Be?
Proofs are for choosing, not printing. Where the weight should go instead, and the one job a light proof is genuinely bad for.
Folders for a Multi-Day Event Gallery
One link with a folder per day instead of three links to keep straight. Folders are one level deep, and the 1,000-photo ceiling is per gallery, not per folder.
Two Photographers, One Client Gallery
Naming and sequencing rules for a second shooter, then the delivery half. There is one account and one login, and this page says so.
sRGB Export for Client Proofing
Why the client's browser shows different colours than the Develop module, the one setting that fixes most of it, and the four links in the chain you cannot control.
Watermark Proofs in Lightroom Without Ruining the Selection
A watermark is a deterrent, not a lock, and a heavy one makes clients pick worse photos. Where it can sit, and the password gate as the alternative.
Rename Files Before Client Proofing
What renaming actually fixes, the case for not bothering inside the two-way loop, and the one genuine risk: renaming after the gallery is live.
How to Migrate Pixieset Galleries in Batches
The import can be re-run and skips what it already brought, so the move happens in passes. Including the limit nobody mentions: largest web size, not your originals.
Does Switching Gallery Platform Break Old Client Links?
Yes, eventually, and no platform can rescue a URL it does not own. So this is about sequencing the move and what to send the clients who still open a 2023 gallery.
How Long Does It Take to Migrate Client Galleries?
No hours figure, because none has been measured. The two clocks instead: the unattended transfer, and the four pieces of work that are genuinely yours.
My Client Cannot Download the Gallery
Six causes in order of likelihood, and the distinction nobody makes: a client meets two different downloads and they fail for different reasons.
Can Clients Download All Photos at Once?
In one click for the whole gallery or one image at a time, with no account anywhere in the path. Plus what a phone does with a large ZIP.
When the Gallery ZIP Is Too Big for Your Client
Diagnose before you split: size, device storage, a corporate network, or a handoff window that lapsed. Then break the ZIP up on your side, not theirs.
My Client Lost Their Gallery Link
The link still works, so this is a two-minute job. The one exception stated up front, and the check that tells you whether they ever opened it.
Photo Delivery Turnaround Time
No industry average, because none is verifiable. A method instead: the number you can safely promise is set by your slowest round trip, not by your editing speed.
Reduce the Time You Spend Delivering Photos to Clients
The hours are in the round trips, not the upload. Four of the six can be removed, two cannot, and no hours-saved figure is claimed.
How to Price Photo Delivery Into Your Packages
The shape of the cost decides where it belongs. Why a per-session delivery fee annoys clients and earns almost nothing, worked on your own numbers.
Client Gallery Software for a Small Studio
What earns its keep when nobody is going to administer this, what is overhead pretending to be value, and the honest answer on seats: there is no seat model.
A Client Gallery for Commercial Photographers
Unbranded delivery, a set organised by deliverable, a full-resolution handoff, and the plain line on when you should buy a review tool instead.
How to Send Photos to a Magazine or Publication
A picture desk needs full-resolution files fast and will not create an account. Where the captions actually live, and the two failure modes that cost the placement.
Mini Session Photo Delivery: Twelve Galleries in One Day
Where per-gallery pricing hurts most. Which per-delivery steps vanish, which shrink, and which stay manual however you publish.
How Do I Stop Clients Sharing Gallery Links?
You cannot, and no platform can. What a password genuinely does, what it does not, and why a contract beats a password for an embargoed campaign.
What Is Photo Proofing?
A proof is a lightly edited, viewing-sized preview the client chooses from, never the final file. Where the round sits in a job, and when to skip it.
clientgallery.io Pricing: What It Costs and What You Get
One plan at 10 $/month or 110 $/year, a free account with one gallery, every fair-use ceiling in full, and the studios that should buy something else.
What Is a Client Gallery?
A private page where a photographer hands a finished shoot to the client. How it differs from a shared folder, a transfer link and a portfolio, and when you can skip one.
A Client Gallery With Analytics: What the Dashboard Shows
Every counter on one account-wide dashboard, how a visitor is counted without being identified, and the questions it cannot answer.
A Private Client Gallery for Boudoir Photographers
Discreet titles, a password sent separately, Face Search left off, and a plain account of what no software can stop, from screenshots to forwarding.
How to Switch From Pic-Time: An Honest Manual Migration
There is no Pic-Time importer. Download gallery by gallery while your plan is paid, re-upload proofs, swap links, and downgrade last, with both of Pic-Time's deletion clocks quoted.
How to Migrate From Zenfolio Without Losing a Gallery
There is no Zenfolio importer. Download every gallery before you cancel, because Zenfolio deletes content once an account closes, then re-publish proofs, swap links and cancel last.
Free Client Gallery for Photographers: What Each Free Plan Actually Costs
Every free tier charges somewhere: a cut of sales, storage that shrinks, a download cap or a gallery count. The published figures side by side, and when a free plan elsewhere wins.
Best Client Gallery for Photographers: Six Jobs, Six Answers
No ranking. Prints, all-in-one, storage, flat price, commercial delivery and Lightroom picks, each matched to the platform that fits, on published figures.
Proofing Gallery vs Final Gallery: What Is the Difference?
One gallery can proof first and deliver later. Which switches to set, and what the download switch does not hide.
Multiple People Choosing Photos From One Gallery
One shared set of stars and loves, one lock on Send my picks. Name the decider before the link goes out.
The Client Wants to Change Their Photo Selection After Submitting
Reopen picking on the same gallery. The old picks stay, and you tell the client, because nothing notifies them.
Should Photographers Send Unedited Photos to Clients?
Lightly edited proofs when the client is choosing, finished images when they are not, and why proofs are for viewing.
Should Photographers Give Clients All the Photos?
Why a culled set beats every frame, how to write the count into the contract, and why 1,000 is a ceiling.
A Client Is Asking for the RAW Files. What Do You Say?
Ask what they need first, then reply with the script that fits: more photos, an edit, a big print or a backup.
In-Person Sales vs Online Proofing: Which Fits Your Studio?
Keep the sales appointment if print orders pay the bills. Proof online when the client's choice decides the edit.
A Proofing Gallery With Comments on Photos
Switch comments on per gallery, let clients draw on the photo, and mark each note done with a Retouched chip.
Client Proofing With Color Labels
Lightroom's five colors, one shared label per photo, and a color key agreed before the proofing round starts.
Corporate Headshot Selection Gallery for Employees
One gallery per employee: no per-gallery fee, private picks, and each lock only affects that person.
Actor Headshot Selection With an Agent: Who Presses Send
Actor and agent share one set of picks and one comment signature. Split the roles and agree who sends.
A Headshot Proofing Gallery Built Around Retouch Notes
Clients star and love frames, draw on photos to circle what to retouch, and see how many picks are retouched.
Newborn Photography Proofing Gallery
Proof a short newborn set with star and love picks both parents share, then keep the same link for the finals.
Engagement Session Photo Gallery: From Picks to the Save-the-Date
Couples star broadly, love the save-the-date frames, send picks that lock, then crop them for social in the gallery.
Product Photography Approval Workflow
Run the brand review round in one link: comments, color labels, picks and a live picks-retouched count.
Fashion Lookbook Photo Delivery to a Brand
One brand approver picks, colour-labels and draws retouch notes, with every look as a section on one page.
Photographer Client Experience Ideas That Live Inside the Gallery
A welcome note, a full-screen first look, social crops after picks, and a fast reply when picks arrive.
Virtual Photo Reveal Session: Run the Slideshow From the Gallery
Run a remote reveal from the gallery's timed full-screen slideshow, and know when to keep your in-person sales tool.
How to Deliver Newborn Photos to Clients
One password-protected link parents forward, grandparents open without an account, and everyone downloads in one click.
Maternity Session Photo Delivery: A Private, Simple Handoff
A small set behind a password with sharing off, a full-screen slideshow, one-click download, and room for the newborn.
Elopement Photo Delivery: A Gallery for the People Who Were Not There
One link relatives open with no account, a share button for the couple, and social crops once picks are sent.
Personal Brand Photography Delivery
One gallery, two lanes: crops of the client's picks for social, and a full-resolution ZIP for web and print.
How to Deliver Product Photos to an Ecommerce Client
Name frames by product code, collect stars and labels in full screen, export the picks list, then send the ZIP.
Interior Photography Delivery to Designers and Architects
One shoot, several licensees: a separate gallery for each party, holding only the images its license covers.
Pic-Time Free Plan: What You Get and What Changes Later
Pic-Time's free plan from its own pages: storage that shrinks later, a store commission, and the deletion rules.
Pic-Time vs clientgallery.io: Side by Side
Pic-Time's plan ladder, store commissions and plan-gated face recognition against one flat plan with no store.
Download All Your Galleries Before Leaving Pic-Time
Pic-Time downloads run gallery by gallery and not on Free. Download and check everything while you still pay, then cancel.
Pic-Time Gallery Migration Service: What It Moves and Costs
What Pic-Time's paid migration takes in, what it leaves behind, and why nothing moves galleries back out.
CloudSpot Free Plan Limits
CloudSpot's free plan from its own pages: active gallery cap, storage, download size and the store commission.
CloudSpot vs clientgallery.io, Side by Side
Price, gallery caps, storage, downloads and commission in two columns, and which kind of studio each one suits.
VSCO Galleries vs clientgallery.io
What VSCO's plans include for client galleries, what they leave out, and where a Lightroom picks round trip matters.
Pixpa Alternative for Client Galleries
Pixpa meters storage by plan and bundles a website builder. Who should stay, and where one flat delivery plan fits.
Pixieset vs Pixpa: Commission, Storage and Expiry
Only what each company publishes: who takes a commission, how storage is metered, how expiry works, and what each leaves out.
How to Download All Photos From SmugMug
SmugMug downloads one gallery at a time with an emailed ZIP link. The owner steps, the limits, and what to finish before you cancel.
SmugMug vs Zenfolio
Published prices, what each takes from a sale, proofing by plan, and how each lets you download your work before you cancel.
Customize Client Gallery Design
Logo, two colours, heading and body fonts, light or dark per gallery, and the layout parts that stay fixed.
QR Code Photo Gallery for Events
Turn one gallery link into a printed code with any QR generator, test it before printing, and let guests find themselves.
The Best Way to Share Photos With a Large Group
One link with no guest accounts, an optional password, a whole-gallery download, and face search that is off until you turn it on.
Photography Contract Clauses for Gallery Delivery
Sample wording for delivery, how long the gallery stays online, the download window, client backups and the picks deadline.
How to Send Sneak Peek Photos to Clients
Share a small first set now and add the rest to the same gallery later; the link never changes, and you tell the client when it is in.
Same-Day Event Photo Delivery
Export selects at the venue, share one gallery link while the event runs, keep adding behind it, and let attendees find themselves.
Quinceañera Photo Gallery: One Link for Every Generation
Sections for each part of the day on one page, one shared pick set with a named decider, face search off until the parents agree.
Bar Mitzvah Photo Gallery Delivery
Sections for portraits, service, reception and candle lighting on one page, album picks from the parents, and face search for guests.
How to Deliver Concert Photos to a Band
One gallery per show, one link for the band and manager, a named picks sender, terms in the welcome note, and a ZIP for press.
Food Photography Delivery to Restaurants
One section per menu category, one shared pick set for owner and chef, retouch notes on the photo, and a ZIP named like the menu.
Nonprofit Event Photo Sharing With Attendees
One gala, three galleries: a password-protected attendee link, a comms gallery for sponsors, and a restricted gallery for declined guests.
Theatre Production Photo Delivery
One gallery per show, sections by act, one named decider for press picks, a time-limited press ZIP, then the cast get the link.
Birth Photography Private Gallery
Keep the full birth story behind its own password and give relatives a separate gallery, with the limits of every setting stated plainly.
Does HoneyBook Have Client Galleries?
Yes, HoneyBook has its own galleries now. What they include by plan, how Pic-Time fits in, and the three cases where a separate gallery still makes sense.
iCloud Shared Album vs a Client Gallery
Apple's shared albums keep originals from version 27 on. What still differs for paying clients: password, storage, picks and your name on the page.
Google Photos Shared Album vs a Client Gallery
Google says anyone with a shared album link can view it. How that compares with a gallery that has a password, a download switch and picks.
The Best Lightroom Plugin for Client Galleries, Sorted by Direction
Eight Lightroom Classic gallery plugins compared on what they publish out and what brings the client's favourites back, from each vendor's own help pages.
Is There a Free Lightroom Plugin for Client Galleries?
The plugin is a free download. A free account holds one gallery that grows by exporting to the same name, and picks come back into Lightroom Classic.
How to Install a Lightroom Classic Plugin, Step by Step
Unzip, keep the .lrplugin folder somewhere permanent, add it, restart once and paste your studio key. The ClientGallery plugin, start to finish.
Lightroom Plugin Not Showing in the Export Dialog: Five Checks
Five checks, in order, for when ClientGallery is missing from Lightroom Classic's Export dialog: the app, the plugin folder, the restart, the menu and the name.
Do Client Picks Overwrite Your Lightroom Star Ratings?
Yes, on every photo the import matches. What it writes, what it replaces, what it never clears, and how to protect your own cull.
Do Client Picks Land on Your RAW Files in Lightroom Classic?
Proofs keep the catalog photo's file name, and the pick import searches the open catalog for it. How it matches, where it catches too much, how to prevent it.
Client Picks in Two Lightroom Classic Catalogs
The pick import writes into the open catalog only, so a studio with two catalogs runs it in each. What it overwrites, and what it never syncs.
How to Remove Location Data From Client Proofs Before You Send Them
The Lightroom Classic plugin removes location metadata on every export and publish. Browser uploads are on you, and here is how to check a file.
From Aftershoot to a Client Gallery and Back Into Lightroom Classic
Cull in Aftershoot, publish proofs from Lightroom Classic, pull client picks back as stars, Pick flags and labels, and see what gets replaced.
Narrative Select to a Client Gallery: Keep Your Ratings Through Proofing
Get Narrative Select ratings into Lightroom Classic, publish proofs, then bring client picks back knowing which stars and labels they replace.
FilterPixel to Client Gallery Workflow
Get a FilterPixel cull into Lightroom Classic as XMP, publish proofs, then pull client picks back without losing track of your own stars.
Photo Mechanic Client Selects: From a Picks List to Tagged Photos
Turn the client's picks file into tagged frames with Find in Photo Mechanic or one OR search in Photo Mechanic Plus, and where each one over-matches.
Select Client Picks in darktable From a Filename List
Turn a client's picks file into one darktable collection, with one filename rule per line joined by add more images, or use exact-match text search.
Flickr Alternative for Client Photo Delivery
RAW unsupported, TIFF converted to JPEG, 1,000 items on a free account and commercial use limited to Pro, in Flickr's own published words.
PhotoShelter Alternative: What It Costs and When to Stay
Published plans from $120 to $540 a year with 4 GB to 500 GB caps, an 8 to 10 percent sales fee, and the cases where PhotoShelter is the right answer.
Sprout Studio Alternative: Galleries Without the CRM
Storage, a combined active shoots and galleries count, and seats, against one flat plan. Plus three solid reasons to keep the bundle.
PhotoShelter vs Pixieset: What Each One Actually Publishes
Built only on what both vendors put in writing: sales fees, download flows and expiry rules, and an honest gap where Pixieset's prices are not citable.
How to Download All Photos From Pixieset
The client-side download flow Pixieset documents, the 4-digit PIN that is on by default, the size options, and the limits your photographer may have set.
Studio Ninja Client Galleries: The Answer Is No
Studio Ninja's own help centre answers no. What the Client Portal's Galleries tab really is, and which two gallery platforms it documents.
Adobe RGB vs sRGB for Client Delivery
The web treats untagged images as sRGB by rule, so the embedded profile decides more than the space does. What to export, by destination.
What DPI Should Client Photos Be?
The number stored in a file is metadata and changes no pixels. Ask for the print size, send your largest pixel dimensions, and end the thread.
Why Are My Photo Files So Big?
Format, bit depth, compression and pixel count, in the order they matter. What is safe to change, what is not, and the three-file split that fixes it.
Does Instagram Compress Photos?
Meta documents a 1,080 pixel ceiling, a 320 pixel floor and cropping outside 1.91:1 to 3:4. It publishes nothing about compression quality, so neither do we.
Does Google Drive Compress Photos?
The documented resize belongs to Google Photos, not Drive. Drive has no quality setting and no fidelity guarantee either, and the copy trap costs you both.
Does Email Compress Photo Attachments?
No. Apple documents that Mail on Mac inserts images at actual size, and that any reduction is a size the sender chooses from a menu.
Does AirDrop Reduce Photo Quality?
No. Apple documents no resizing and no recompression. The two settings that genuinely change your file are capture format and the USB import.
How to Send Photos to Clients From an iPhone
What Apple actually documents about Messages, AirDrop and Mail, where the silences are, and the handoff that leaves a record you can re-send.
Photos Look Dark on iPhone After Export: What Is Happening
An Apple photo can hold an SDR base plus a gain map. One viewer applies it, another does not, and neither rendering is broken.
Pet Photography Client Gallery: From First Look to Final Download
Sections by setting, one shared shortlist for the household, then finals, a one-click download and social crops from the same link.
Dance Recital Photo Gallery for Parents
A section per class in programme order on one scrolling page, one password, and a view-only section link for each teacher.
Youth Sports Photo Delivery to Parents
One gallery and password per team for the coach to forward, picks off, a print-size team photo, and what the studio can actually see afterwards.
School Photo Day Delivery to Parents
One gallery and password per class, no children's names on the page, and a plain account of what the studio can and cannot see.
Graduation Photo Gallery for Families: Ceremony Day Delivery
Split graduation day into a class gallery every family downloads from and a private family gallery with picks timed to the announcement deadline.
Race Photography Photo Delivery: Free Photos for Every Runner
When the organiser pays and runners get photos free: galleries split by course point, face search with its limits, and picks switched off.
Conference Photography Delivery to Organisers: What to Send, When
A delivery plan by audience: marketing selects first, the full event gallery second, and the right link for speakers and sponsors.
Equestrian Photography Gallery: Organising a Horse Show by Class
Sections by class in running order, one password for the whole show, and a separate gallery for each rider who orders a package.
Automotive Photography Delivery to Dealerships
Files named by stock number before upload, one gallery per vehicle or per batch, and a numbered ZIP the dealer pulls in one click.
Aerial and Drone Photo Delivery to Clients
Aerials inside the bigger job: sections by flight pass or visit date, JPEG proofs only, and the full-resolution set as one ZIP.
Destination Wedding Photo Delivery Across Time Zones
One link for families in several countries: built for phones, a sneak peek first, the full set on the same link, and a ZIP timed to the couple's return.
Styled Shoot Photo Sharing: A View-Only Link for Each Vendor
One credit list, one embargo date, and a view-only section link per vendor that cannot open the whole shoot.
The Second Shooter Photo Handoff, Start to Finish
No seat, no second login: the files go to the lead, one gallery goes to the client, and portfolio images come back by a route the lead controls.
How to Share Wedding Photos With the Venue for Marketing
Settle the usage in a short written note, get the couple's yes, then send only the frames the venue needs.
Can I Use Squarespace for Client Galleries?
Yes for viewing: one shared password per page on every plan. What Squarespace documents, what its gallery articles leave out, and when to stay on it.
Can I Use My Own Website for Client Galleries?
Yes. A workload comparison of the four jobs a website gallery leaves to you: uploading, resizing, passwording and chasing picks.
Does iMessage Compress Photos?
Apple describes iMessage as sending high resolution photos and publishes no compression step. The one documented change is HEIF to JPEG, and a thread is still a pile of copies.
Client Says the Gallery Password Is Not Working
Capitals matter, spaces at the ends do not, and a changed password asks everyone again. The causes in order, and where to read the exact password in your studio.
Picflow Alternative: When the Picks Have to Come Back to Lightroom
Picflow's own help says gallery changes cannot sync back to Lightroom. Where a one-plan gallery that writes client picks into your catalog fits, and who should stay on Picflow.
Smash Alternative for Photographers: When a Transfer Is Not Enough
Smash transfers last 7 days by default and cannot be recovered once expired. When a transfer is the right tool, and when the upload should be a gallery that stays.
WeTransfer vs Dropbox Transfer for Photos
Size ceilings, link life and what the client sees, from each vendor's own pages, plus the third option: a gallery.
Is pCloud Good for Delivering Photos to Clients?
Fine for a colleague: browser preview, a password on Premium, view statistics. What its help pages do not describe: your own page and a way to send picks back.
Sharing Photos With Clients on OneDrive: What the Link Exposes
From Microsoft's own docs: Anyone links, editing on by default, and why a delivery folder needs one setting changed before you send it.
USB Drive vs Online Gallery for Photo Delivery
When a drive is still the right deliverable, why the link wins everywhere else, and how to do both without doubling the work.