How do my clients choose their photos?

They tick them in the gallery they already have. There is no separate login, no spreadsheet and no downloading and renaming files. You see their picks as they make them.

Can I make the list myself and have them approve it?

Yes, and for album design that is usually the better order. You pick the photos, share the list as a proposal, and they either approve it or ask for a change. A note from them is never treated as approval, because a note and a yes are not the same thing.

What happens when a couple misses the deadline?

The request shows as late on your selections screen and you can send a reminder in one click, with a message if you want to add one. Nothing is auto-sent on your behalf, and we never refuse a second reminder.

Can I see every outstanding request across all my weddings?

Yes. One screen lists every request across every wedding, grouped by whose turn it is: waiting on you, waiting on them, done. It is the page that stops a selection sitting forgotten for three weeks.

Do both halves of a couple get counted twice if they pick the same photo?

No. A count is of distinct photographs, so a frame both of them chose counts once. Otherwise a target of 60 would quietly become 90.

Album selections, without the email thread

A list, a target, a deadline, and one screen showing which weddings are waiting on you and which are waiting on them.

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Album selections are where wedding jobs go to die. The wedding was in June, the album is agreed, and in October you are still sending the fourth polite email asking which photographs they want in it.

The reason is almost never that the couple does not care. It is that choosing 60 photographs out of 800, from a grid, with no deadline and no way to see what they have already picked, is genuinely hard work with no obvious end.

What this does

A request has a name, a brief, a target and a deadline. You write all four, because your album selection is not our album selection and a studio's wording is its own.

They pick in the gallery they already have. No second login, no spreadsheet, no filenames. They tick photographs and you watch the count climb.

One screen shows every request you have out. Across every wedding, sorted by whose turn it is. Four states and no more: needs you, with clients, done, yours. It answers "who am I waiting on" before it answers anything else.

A reminder is one click and carries your message if you want it to. The row shows when the last one went so you are not guessing.

The part most tools get wrong

Who fills a list in and who can see it are two different questions.

Sometimes the couple picks. Sometimes you pick, and they never see the list at all, because it is your shot list for the album designer. And sometimes you pick and then show them, which is a proposal and needs a yes or a change.

Those three are genuinely different and we model them as different, because treating a private working list as something the clients can see is the sort of mistake that is embarrassing exactly once.

Small things that turn out to matter

A deadline is a day, not a moment. A list due today is not late at one minute past midnight.

Late is not a state, it is an attribute. A submitted list stops being late the second they send it, because chasing somebody who already delivered is the exact failure this is meant to prevent.

A note is never an approval. If they reply "love these but can we swap the one on the beach", that is a change request, not a yes. The difference between those two is the difference between a finished album and a wrong one.

Where it lives

Selections hang off a gallery, because the gallery is the only place a couple can see and tick photographs. You can start one from the wedding, from the gallery, or from the selections screen itself.

Free to try on a real wedding: the free plan holds about 2,500 photos, which is enough to put a whole one up and send a real request to a real couple.

Common questions

How do my clients choose their photos?: They tick them in the gallery they already have. There is no separate login, no spreadsheet and no downloading and renaming files. You see their picks as they make them.
Can I make the list myself and have them approve it?: Yes, and for album design that is usually the better order. You pick the photos, share the list as a proposal, and they either approve it or ask for a change. A note from them is never treated as approval, because a note and a yes are not the same thing.
What happens when a couple misses the deadline?: The request shows as late on your selections screen and you can send a reminder in one click, with a message if you want to add one. Nothing is auto-sent on your behalf, and we never refuse a second reminder.
Can I see every outstanding request across all my weddings?: Yes. One screen lists every request across every wedding, grouped by whose turn it is: waiting on you, waiting on them, done. It is the page that stops a selection sitting forgotten for three weeks.
Do both halves of a couple get counted twice if they pick the same photo?: No. A count is of distinct photographs, so a frame both of them chose counts once. Otherwise a target of 60 would quietly become 90.

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