You finish the cull, you finish the edit, maybe you do a little retouching, and you figure you're done. But you're not, because the photos still have to get to your client, and that part somehow takes way longer than it should.
At first it feels like nothing. A client asks you to send the link again, their mom can't download the photos, the bride wants to know where she picks her favorites, and then she asks for the video too. Each one is small on its own, but add them all up over a busy season and they quietly eat a whole afternoon you thought you had free.
Here is the strange part. Culling got faster and editing got faster, but sending the photos stayed slow and a little annoying. You finish your edit, export everything, log in to another app, upload it all over again, and then send your client off to a page that looks nothing like the rest of your work. So the moment that matters most, the one where your client first sees their photos, ends up running on a tool you barely think about.
That is why Aftershoot built Galleries. It is a simple way to send photos and videos to clients, and it lives right inside the app, next to the culling and editing you already do.
Straight from your edit to your client
When you finish editing in Aftershoot, your photos are already sitting in the gallery, so there is nothing to export, nothing to upload a second time, and no switching between apps. Because the gallery is built right into Aftershoot, the jump from "edit done" to "client can look" takes seconds instead of an. hour.
And if you don't edit in Aftershoot, that's okay, because Galleries works on its own too. You can bring in your finished photos from any tool and send them the same easy way, and your client gets the same nice experience either way. Moving over from another platform is simple as well, since Galleries helps you bring your work across from Pixieset, Pic-Time, and ShootProof.
A gallery that looks like you
Make an album, add the photos and videos you want to send, drag them into the order you like, and pick a cover photo. Video is welcome here too, so you can upload 4K and long clips, or just paste a YouTube link when that's easier.
After that, you can make the whole thing yours. Add your logo, pick your colours, and set the layout and grid the way you want them. You can also add a password and a watermark, so handing a gallery to a client doesn't mean giving up control of your files.
Help the clients find their own photos
Most of the time, clients get stuck on just two things: where do I start, and which photos have me in them? Galleries takes care of both.
Curated Highlights show people where to begin, so nobody opens the gallery and feels lost in a wall of 500 photos. My Photos quietly handles the request you hear all the time, where a guest only wants the shots they're actually in.
and AI searches the folders for matches with facial recognition. Image: Aftershoot
Face Gating takes that a step further, because you send someone their own link and they open a gallery made up of only their photos. It works in the simplest way you could ask for, since they just take a quick selfie and the gallery filters down to their pictures, which means no more searching and no more "can you find the one of me?" emails landing in your inbox.
Clients can also leave a comment right on a photo, which keeps feedback and approvals in one place instead of spread across a long email chain. And all the everyday things, like the slideshow, downloads, sharing, and hearting a favourite, sit right where people expect to find them.
See what your clients are doing
The Analytics tab gives you a simple list of what happened: the photo, the email of the person, what they did (view, download, or favourite), and when they did it. You can search it, filter it, and download it whenever you need it somewhere else.
That is more useful than it sounds. If a client hasn't opened the gallery yet, you don't have to keep checking in, and if they have, you can just ask whether they want you to swap anything. And when someone keeps favoriting the same kind of photo, you learn what they love without even asking, so if you watch this across enough jobs, you start to notice patterns that are worth bringing back into your portfolio and your marketing.
Sell prints in the same place
If you sell prints, the store sits right there in the gallery, so your client can order without being sent off to another site. WHCC, Bay Photo, and Atkins Pro Labs are built in, but if you would rather handle prints yourself, you can do that too. Running it yourself keeps full control of your prices and your delivery, which is great if you already work with a local lab you trust. You can also build packages and add coupons when you want to run a deal, all without setting up a separate store.
Now the whole thing connects
For a long time, this was the hardest part of the job once the real work was done, but that's not true anymore. The gallery is not a separate stop now; it's simply the last step of the same job that started with the cull.
While Galleries pricing is still in preview, you get 100 GB of storage for free, which is plenty to send real jobs and feel the difference before you pay for anything. Bigger, unlimited plans are coming soon too.
Get this part right and you stop thinking about delivery at all. You send the link, your client finds what they need, and a week later nobody is pulling you back in to fix a download.