Your gallery is live in minutes, not hours
The web uploader now sends a small preview of every photo first. Your gallery can go live on those previews, so buyers can find, buy and share their photos while the full-quality files keep uploading in the background.
How it works
Preview-first is already on in the web uploader. There's nothing to set up.
- Step 1
Add your photos
Drop in photos or a whole folder, just as you do today. Your browser makes a small preview of each one, right on your computer.
- Step 2
Previews go up first
The previews are small, so they upload quickly, even on a slow connection at the venue.
- Step 3
Your gallery goes live
Publish as soon as the previews are up, or tick “Publish the gallery as soon as the previews are up” and it happens on its own. Buyers can browse, search, buy and share straight away.
- Step 4
Full quality follows
The full-quality files carry on uploading in the background, into the same photos. Downloads and prints always use them.
What buyers see
Nothing new to learn. Buyers get the gallery they know, just sooner.
Watermarked and protected, as usual
Buyers browse the same watermarked previews as always, and preview protection works just the same if your gallery uses it.
They can find themselves straight away
Selfie and bib search work on the previews, so people find their photos as soon as the gallery is live.
Full quality, delivered automatically
A purchase is never delivered as the preview. If someone buys a photo before its full-quality file has arrived, it moves to the front of the queue, and the buyer is emailed as soon as it's ready.
Keep an eye on it while you upload
While previews and full-quality files upload, a strip at the top of the uploader shows where your gallery stands: whether it's live yet, how many full-quality files are still to go, and when a bought photo has moved to the front. Once the gallery is live, it also shows how many people visited it in the last 30 minutes, and owners and administrators of the workspace see new orders since the upload started.
- Live on previews
- 3 orders since you started
- 42 visitors in the last 30 min
- 1,250 originals to go
- 2 ordered photos' originals moved to the front
Questions
Try it on your next upload
Preview-first is on in the web uploader. Add your photos and your gallery can be live in minutes.
Open the uploader