The GalleryLink Journal
Practical advice on sharing client photos from Google Drive: privacy, layouts, and the little workflow details that make delivery effortless.
Ten Pixieset alternatives compared on free plans, real yearly cost, how storage is charged and what each is best at, from upload platforms like Pic-Time and ShootProof to Google Drive-based galleries. Prices checked on each company's pricing page in October 2026.
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Typical turnaround for sneak peeks, full wedding galleries, albums and films; what happens week by week; why peak season takes longer; whether three months is too long; when and how to follow up; and how photographers can run the wait.
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Most full-day weddings deliver 400 to 800 edited photos, half days 200 to 400 and elopements 100 to 250. The per-hour rule, what culling removes, and what to ask.
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Export settings that play everywhere, why H.264 beats HEVC for viewing copies, how to organise films in Google Drive, and how to send them as one gallery link that streams on any phone and lets clients download the originals.
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Which photos to choose, how many, a one-evening cull, export settings for phones, and how to send a sneak peek as a real gallery from a Google Drive folder, so the same link becomes the full wedding gallery later.
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Turn the Google Drive folder you already keep into a live product catalogue with GalleryLink: subfolders become categories, filenames become product names and prices, buyers shortlist and ask about items, and updating the folder updates the catalogue.
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Drive zips a shared folder and splits big shoots into several ZIP files. How to get every photo on a computer or phone, fix stuck downloads, and simpler options.
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A folder structure, naming rules and sharing habits for photographers' Google Drive: year, job and delivery folders, safe sharing, archiving and templates.
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What Google Drive's Activity panel and Activity dashboard show, why link viewers stay anonymous, and how photographers can tell whether a delivery was opened.
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Why Google Drive pauses downloads of a busy shared file, what clients can do when they see the message, and how to set up deliveries so it rarely happens.
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One setting lets anyone open your Drive folder without signing in: Anyone with the link, Viewer. Exact steps, what clients can and can't do, and the privacy catch.
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Google Drive keeps every photo exactly as you upload it, while Google Photos' Storage saver shrinks photos over 16 MP. How to upload at full quality, and check it.
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Phones and many cameras save the GPS position in every photo. How to check a photo, remove the location (or all metadata) without losing quality, and stop it being recorded.
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Free browser tools for photographers: gallery QR cards, batch watermarks, Instagram crops and carousel splits, HEIC to JPG, photo location removal, a storage cost calculator, a contract template and an MLS resizer.
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The twelve sections every photography contract needs, from retainer and cancellation to copyright, delivery and liability, in plain English, with a free template.
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Instagram now shows 3:4 posts and a 3:4 grid. The right sizes for feed posts, carousels and stories in 2026, and how to post a seamless panorama carousel.
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This week’s GalleryLink update: drag to choose what part of your cover photo stays in view, dashboard cards that show status, views, downloads and when a client last opened a gallery, search and filters, a create form built for phones with a floating live preview, home-screen install, and Sign in with Apple.
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Your photographer sent a Drive link or a download. How to keep your own copy, sort the photos into chapters, and share one beautiful gallery that every guest can open on any phone, for $10 once instead of a subscription.
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A step-by-step way for restaurants and cafés to turn a Google Drive folder of dish photos into a QR code photo menu: naming files with prices, sections, menu mode, table cards, and when you need a full ordering app instead.
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GalleryLink can now design a client gallery’s look from a sentence (“an old newspaper”, “1920s art deco”) or a reference image, and you can set the whole gallery up by talking it through. How it works, what a style can change, prompt ideas that work, and what stays the same for your clients.
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A practical guide to client proofing: when to ask clients to pick, how many photos to ask for, how to set it up so they actually finish, and how to turn their picks into a Lightroom selection in seconds. Covers wedding albums, retouching picks, headshots and print orders, with message templates.
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October is the busiest month for high school photographers: homecoming games, parades, courts and dances, plus senior nights on the last home game. How to organise each event, who gets which photos, what to check about student privacy, how to get every senior's family their own gallery, and message templates.
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Team portraits, league seasons and school picture days all end the same way: dozens of families, and each should see only their own child. A practical workflow for one private gallery per player, class or family: folder structure, naming, consent, QR cards on the day, and message templates.
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Everything about turning a Google Drive folder into a beautiful client photo gallery: preparing and sharing the folder, creating the gallery, themes, layouts and sections, what your client sees, privacy, sharing by link, QR code or Notion embed, keeping it in sync, and step-by-step setups for weddings, events, sports, schools, portraits, real estate, video and product catalogues.
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