Client Galleries & Delivery

After a shoot, photographers deliver work through a branded gallery a client opens from a private link — no account needed. What a client actually sees, and can do, is worth walking through in detail.

The first thing a client sees

Before the photo grid, a client can land on a designed cover — a hero image, a title, a subtitle, and a "View Gallery" button, picked from a set of layout templates the studio configures. It's the same first impression a nicely designed physical album would give, just as the front door to the digital one.

Selecting favorites

Inside the gallery, a client taps a heart icon on any photo to mark it a favorite — saved the moment they tap it, no separate "save" step. A studio can optionally cap how many photos a client is allowed to pick (a classic proofing setup, like "choose your favorite 40"), or leave it open-ended as pure favoriting.

Once they're happy with their picks, the client taps "Done selecting," gets a quick confirmation, and can leave the photographer a note. That's not a one-way door — they can keep adjusting and resubmit as many times as they like. A photographer can freeze a gallery's selections once they're ready to move on with editing, which stops further changes without deleting anything already picked. Every time a client finishes selecting, the photographer gets notified — batched to at most once an hour, so re-submitting a few times in a row doesn't flood their inbox.

Selecting favorites has nothing to do with payment. A client can pick their favorites straight from watermarked previews before paying anything — it's downloading full-resolution originals that's gated by payment, not choosing which photos they love.

Delivery tracker

Delivery progress is shown to the client as a simple, four-stage tracker:

1. Session Complete — advances automatically once the session date passes.
2. Culling & Selection — moved forward by staff as review begins.
3. Colour Grading — moved forward by staff as editing progresses.
4. Gallery Delivered — advances automatically when the gallery is published to the client.

Stages only move forward; there's no going back to an earlier stage once it's passed.

Watermark protection

This is one of Peasier's hardest business rules: any gallery that hasn't been paid for is served exclusively with watermarked previews. Full-resolution originals unlock automatically the instant the linked invoice is paid — no manual step required. Photographers themselves always see their own original files in the authenticated app, regardless of payment status.

Keeping a gallery private

A gallery is either open to anyone with the link, or protected by a 4-digit PIN a studio turns on when creating or editing it — there's no separate "private" tier beyond the PIN. When PIN protection is on, a client has to enter the code on a simple screen before the gallery loads at all. If a studio turns PIN protection off and back on, a fresh PIN is generated automatically.

Finding yourself in a large gallery

For big shoots — weddings, corporate events — scrolling through hundreds of photos to find your own isn't realistic, so Peasier gives clients two ways to narrow it down, both covered in more depth in AI Culling & Search:

• Browsing by person — if the studio has face-grouping turned on, a "People" tab shows a card for each person detected in the gallery; tapping one filters straight to their photos.
• "Find your photos" — a client can explicitly opt in to take or upload a selfie, which is used only to find their matches and is never stored anywhere afterward, then select and download everything that's them in one go (still subject to the same payment rule as any other download).

Access history

Every meaningful visit to a gallery — a view, a download, entering a PIN — is recorded and visible to studio owners and admins. This matters most for sensitive-client galleries, where a studio needs to be able to say exactly who saw what, and when.