The handoff your edit deserves
Deliver client galleries in minutes
Finished work should feel finished: a single calm place where your client sees color-accurate presentation, understands what they can download, and is not nudged toward someone else's algorithm. ImageEvent is built around albums and folders you control, share links you can gate with guest passwords, and viewers that stay ad-free on every plan.
This page is a practical playbook. It repeats a few fundamentals on purpose so you can forward one URL to an associate without them hunting Support. When you need the canonical reference, start with uploading or emailing images and videos, share albums, security and privacy, and downloading photos and videos.
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What clients actually see (and why it matters)
Clients open a normal browser link. They do not install an app. They land in your album or folder presentation with the layout you configured, including thumbnail grids, enlarged view, slideshow when you enable it, and optional guestbook or comments if you want feedback captured in one place.
Because galleries are ad-free on every plan, you are not apologizing for banner noise next to a carefully color-graded portrait. That is a positioning win for studios that already compete on taste and trust.
Downloads are not forced on by default. You decide whether guests can pull originals or only certain sizes, depending on your contract and whether you still owe retouched finals. Read the download section under working with images and confirm your Global Settings line up with what you promised in email.
Honest talk about originals versus display sizes
ImageEvent stores what you upload as your master files. For common still formats we also generate display sizes so a 2,000-image wedding does not force the browser to download full RAW bytes for every thumbnail click. That is similar in spirit to professional proofing platforms: fast browsing plus originals available when you allow it.
When a client asks whether this is identical to a ZIP attached to email, the accurate answer is: the originals live on ImageEvent when you uploaded them; guests download those originals only when your settings and album permissions say they can. If you need every guest to pull a full RAW set, make sure your plan capacity and your client's technical comfort both match that decision.
Step-by-step delivery workflow studios reuse every week
1. Ingest with the right uploader
Easy Upload is ideal for smaller batches or quick additions. Mega Upload and FTP matter when you are moving thousands of files from tethered capture or a tether station. Email ingestion exists for light workflows. Read the tradeoffs in uploading help before you are on-site without a tested path.
2. Organize for the client's mental model
Most successful studios separate Getting Ready, Ceremony, Reception, and Details into albums inside a single client folder. Corporate clients often prefer folders by location or by shoot day. ImageEvent folders can carry their own security and URLs, which makes renewals easier next year.
3. Build a client-ready surface when needed
If you want a clean URL that only shows a curated subset without duplicating files, read client-ready views with linked albums. That pattern is common when you deliver a highlights album but keep the full archive in a private sibling folder.
4. Preview as guest, then send
Use View as Guest from your signed-in account to confirm navigation, slideshow timing, and whether download buttons appear. Album bar and viewer controls are documented under album page and viewer.
5. Close the loop with support articles in your back pocket
When a client inevitably asks how to download on mobile, point them to the same viewer experience you already previewed, and keep Support links handy for edge cases.
Three common client gallery patterns
Portrait and engagement
Smaller counts, higher touch. Often one album, optional password, downloads enabled after final payment. Slideshow is a nice upsell during in-person sales.
Wedding full delivery
High counts, split albums, sometimes separate video album. Consider FTP for first ingest, then guest download policy that matches your contract language about RAW availability.
Commercial and editorial
Multiple stakeholders. Folder per location or per campaign, stricter passwords, downloads sometimes disabled until invoice clears.
School and sports volume
See the event photography delivery guide for batch habits that pair with this client delivery page.
FAQ
No. They use the link you send.
Yes. Tighten security, rotate passwords, or move albums back to private folders. Exact steps are covered across security and privacy and album security articles.
Open packages and cross-check video ceilings under 4K and large video support if you bundle video in the same delivery folder.
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