Interior Photography Delivery to Designers and Architects

A shared link treats every recipient the same. Your licenses do not.

If the builder licensed twelve detail shots, a shared gallery hands them the whole shoot anyway. Nothing in the gallery tells them which images are theirs.

A shared link also mixes the conversations. The designer’s retouch notes sit next to the architect’s. Picks become one shared set, because a gallery holds a single set of picks for everyone who opens it.

It also muddles payment. One party pays on time and another does not, but there is only one download switch to flip.

Separate galleries solve all three. Each licensee gets a page, a password, a set of images and a download handoff of their own.

clientgallery.io lets you split a gallery into sections. It is tempting to make one section per licensee and send each party its section link. For licensed deliverables, that does not work, and the reason is deliberate.

A section’s own link is view-only. It shows only that section’s photos, with no downloads of any kind. The table below sets the two kinds of link side by side.

So a section link is a good preview and a poor delivery. There is also no password per section. Every section sits behind the one gallery password.

Sections still earn their place inside each licensee’s gallery. On the client side a gallery is one scrolling page with a jump-to bar at the top. Sections named "Kitchen", "Primary suite" and "Details" make a long delivery easy to scan.

1. Write the split down before the shoot. Agree in writing which party licenses which images or which spaces. Your agreement is the reference. The galleries only mirror it.

2. Build a working gallery for the selection round. If the parties choose from the full take, give that gallery to the party who commissioned the shoot. Use sections per space. If other parties need to see the take before they commit, a section link gives them a view-only look at their part.

3. Create one delivery gallery per licensee. Name each one clearly, for example "Maison Larue, architect" and "Maison Larue, builder". Put only that licensee’s images in it. An image licensed to two parties goes into both galleries.

4. Give each gallery its own password. The password is set per gallery. The builder’s password does not open the designer’s gallery.

5. Set the switches for delivery. The next section lists them.

6. Attach each party’s invoice. Each gallery can carry its own invoice PDF and its own payment link. The client sees "Download your invoice" and a "Pay your invoice" button.

7. Release files when each party has paid. Unlocking is manual. A payment does not switch downloads on by itself. When a party pays, you switch that gallery’s downloads on, or upload its full-resolution ZIP.

8. Watch who has opened what. Each gallery tile in your studio shows whether the client has opened it, and you can filter by Seen by client or Not opened yet. That tells you which party still has not looked.

Each gallery carries its own switches. Here is a sensible starting point for a licensed delivery.

One detail matters for the payment step. The downloads switch does not hide the full-resolution ZIP. That button appears whenever a ZIP is live. So hold the ZIP back until the party has paid, then upload it.

Comments are signed with the gallery’s client name, so set that name to the firm. Notes from the designer’s gallery then read as the designer’s.

Proofs in a gallery are sized for fast viewing. Licensed files usually need to be full resolution. On a paid plan, you upload a full-resolution ZIP to each gallery.

Each ZIP is live for three days. The client sees how many days remain. If the architect’s marketing team asks again next month, you upload it again and the clock restarts.

When a party opens the full-resolution ZIP, the iPhone app can send you a push notification, if you have download notifications switched on. You learn when each party actually collected its files.

Master files stay on your own drives. The account hosts JPEG proofs and short-lived ZIPs. It does not warehouse RAW files.

Nothing extra. There is no per-gallery fee, so splitting one shoot into three deliveries does not change the bill.

A free account holds a single gallery and has no full-resolution ZIP. A multi-party delivery therefore needs the paid plan. The gallery limits answer works through the arithmetic in full.

A password makes sharing deliberate, not impossible. A licensee can still forward a link and its password. View-only pages show no download buttons, but they cannot stop a screenshot. The answer on link sharing covers what a password does and does not stop.

There are no seats. A design firm with four people shares one gallery link, and they share one set of picks. The studio side works the same way: one account per studio.

There is no usage tracking. The gallery does not record which license applies to which image, for how long, or in which media. Keep that in your agreements.

There is no store. If your interiors business earns from selling prints or image licenses through a storefront, a platform with a built-in store is the better fit.

For the wider picture of brand and agency work, see the commercial photographer gallery guide.

This page states no external figure and no competitor figure. It states no licensing law. Every product behaviour and number on it was checked against the running clientgallery.io product on 16 September 2026: section links are view-only with no downloads, picks, comments, labels or face search, and share the gallery password; passwords, downloads, picks, comments and the share button are set per gallery; downloads and picks are on by default and comments are off; the downloads switch does not hide a live full-resolution ZIP; the payment unlock is manual; comments are signed with the gallery’s client name; the paid plan is 10 $/month or 100 $/year with no per-gallery fee; a free account holds one gallery; 1,000 photos per gallery; 250 GB of proofs per paid account; full-resolution ZIPs are paid-only, live 3 days per handoff, with 100 GB of standing ZIPs per account; the download push fires for the full-resolution ZIP only.

• clientgallery.io product and plan, checked 16 September 2026, https://clientgallery.io/