Online Galleries, CDs, Thumb Drives, OH MY!

When it comes to delivering your photographs, a lot of photographers do it differently. Because there are so many options, (CDs, Thumb Drives, Online galleries, etc) sometimes it’s hard to determine what you should be looking for and why. Austin & I are huge fans of online galleries. There are a few widely used gallery companies out there, however, we choose to use PASS for a few major reasons. Today I just wanted to show what an online gallery looks like, how easy it is to use, it’s features, and why we believe it is the best option for our clients.

When we are done editing your photographs, we will upload the high resolution images into an online gallery to share with you. Essentially, your photos are uploaded into a cloud. When we’re done uploading and styling your gallery, we’ll send it over to you via an email invitation to see your photographs!

Once you click on view photos, you’ll be asked to type in a password. We want to make sure that nobody else is seeing your photographs, so we password protect our galleries to ensure your privacy on your most precious moments. Upon entering your gallery, you’ll see our favorite highlights!

We love to showcase our favorite highlights to give a cohesive first look of the day. To see the rest of your photographs, it’s literally a click of a button. In the menu, you’ll be able to see the rest of the collections. We separate our images in eight different sub collections: Our highlights, the couple, the bridal party, details, pre-ceremony, ceremony, reception, and family formals.

We recognize that sorting through 800+ images can be overwhelming, and sometimes you’re searching for that single, crazy friend reception photo! Our online galleries through PASS makes it SO easy to quickly find those shots.

When you select an individual image, you are given several different options at the top of the screen.

Having these options available as you look at each individual image, helps make it easy to share, save, and purchase prints.

All of our clients receive the printing rights for their photos! This gives you the ability to download your images, and get them printed wherever and whenever you choose. That being said, we love that PASS gives you access to professional prints directly through your gallery. This amazing feature allows for you to select your pictures for print as you’re viewing your images. Your printed photographs will be delivered directly to your door, which means we don’t have to be the middleman for you to receive high quality, true to color prints. There are some amazing print options and sizes as well as canvas options! (Eek!) We’ve personally utilized this feature, and can attest to how easy it is. We find that many of the parents of the couples love this feature because it is so quick to use while getting those family portraits printed for the frames.

One of the biggest features of PASS is that it allows you to download your high resolution images . While there are online galleries that are made as a proof delivery and a way to simply view images, PASS is made with the full intention of delivering your final photographs. Through the online gallery, you can download a single image as you are viewing, OR you can download all of the photos in a zip file. Why we love this is because it allows you to have full access to your photographs online, or on your computer. Not to mention, it takes away the need for a CD or a thumb drive.

CDs and thumb drives have definitely served their purpose in the past, however, we feel that CDs are not a secure way to deliver photos because of the potential scratches and breakage. Thumb drives are an awesome way to backup your photos, however, we feel that the online gallery allows for easy access & quick access.

Finally, we have our FAVORITE reason as to why we love PASS galleries: They stay in the cloud for ten years. Yes, you read that right, TEN YEARS! (Cue the confetti) What this means is that if by chance your downloaded images get deleted off your computer or backup drive, for ten years you can simply login to your gallery and re-download. Easy Peasy.

So, to sum it all up, PASS online galleries are amazing because: Easy Delivery, Multiple Collections to divide images, Easily shared, Built in print options, Downloading images is easy, Superior to CDs or thumb drives, Ease of access, Ten years in the cloud. BOOM.