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Changelog

What's new

Short notes on what shipped. No fluff — if it's listed here, it's live in your dashboard.

October 28, 2026Latest

Clients can save a whole gallery to their own Google Drive (Studio, beta)

  • Turn on “Let clients save to Google Drive” under downloads in the gallery editor. Your clients get a Drive button in the gallery's bottom bar.
  • One tap copies every photo, full quality, into a new folder in their own Google Drive, with a folder for each section. No ZIP files to unzip, and nothing fills up their phone.
  • Your gallery's rules still apply: passwords, closing dates and the ask-for-email gate. Clients only give GalleryLink access to the folder it creates, never the rest of their Drive.
  • Off until you switch it on, gallery by gallery. Part of Studio, in beta.

October 28, 2026

Automation: galleries that make and send themselves (Studio, beta)

  • Share one customer folder in Google Drive under Dashboard → Automation. Every new customer folder you add to it becomes a gallery by itself, about 10 minutes after the last photo arrives.
  • Each gallery copies the look of a gallery you choose as the template, takes its title from the folder name, and can close automatically after the number of days you pick.
  • If the folder name includes your client's email, they get the link by email, from your studio name. Or send it anywhere with a webhook: Make or Zapier can pass it on by SMS or KakaoTalk.
  • Folders already there when you start are skipped, and you get a notification for every gallery made. Part of Studio, in beta.

October 22, 2026

Duplicate galleries, your own cover, your logo, and download alerts

  • Duplicate a gallery: the copy keeps its look, colours and client options, so for the next client you only change the folder and the title.
  • Upload your own cover image instead of choosing one from the folder.
  • Show my logo: your Studio logo above the gallery title, switched on gallery by gallery.
  • With “Ask for email before download” on, you get an email the first time each client downloads from a gallery. Part of Pro.

October 10, 2026

Choose when a gallery closes (beta)

  • Set an “Available until” date in the gallery editor, for example the date in your contract. The gallery closes for clients at the end of that day, in your time zone.
  • In the last two weeks your clients see the date in the gallery, with a gentle nudge to download their favourites before then.
  • After the date they see a calm closed page, and can ask you to reopen it. You get the request under the bell, and moving or clearing the date reopens the same link.
  • Nothing is ever deleted, and you always see your own galleries. Part of Pro, in beta.

October 10, 2026

Download a whole gallery in one go (beta)

  • Clients can download an entire Google Drive gallery as one ZIP: every original at full size, with a folder for each section. Very large galleries come in parts of 400 photos.
  • It's off until you switch it on: in the gallery editor, turn on “Download all button” under Allow downloads.
  • Clients see a small download icon in the gallery's bottom bar, and are asked “Download all files?” before anything starts.
  • Part of Pro, in beta. Single-photo downloads work exactly as before.

October 7, 2026

Make a gallery by talking it through, in any style you can describe

  • Make it with me: name your gallery, paste your Google Drive folder, and the gallery builds itself on screen as you answer. Your photos pour in, the look changes as you choose it, and one more answer makes it live. Start it from New gallery, or from the home page without an account until the very last step.
  • Describe your own style in plain words, like “an old newspaper”, “vintage Polaroids on a cork board” or “1920s art deco”, and see your own photos take it on in a couple of seconds. Then adjust it the same way: “less yellow”, “keep the photos in colour”.
  • Or show it instead: add a reference image (a moodboard, an invitation, a screenshot, a photo of the car) and the style is designed from it, with the colours taken from the image itself. The image is only used to design the style and is never saved.
  • Styles go further than colours: 16 typefaces from blackletter and typewriter to stencil and script, photo treatments like black and white or warm film, Polaroid and matted frames, paper and grain textures, a newspaper-style masthead, and slow background motion such as drifting map contours or a light sweep.
  • Readable by design: every style is checked for text contrast and adjusted if it would be hard to read, and background motion switches off for visitors who prefer less motion.
  • Described styles are part of Pro. Anyone can design one and preview it on their own photos first.

September 13, 2026

Choose how your photos arrive

  • A new Photo animation setting in the gallery editor decides how photos appear as your client scrolls: None, Fade, Rise, Zoom, or Cascade, where photos rise one after another in a wave.
  • Pick a speed to match the mood: Gentle, Normal or Quick.
  • See it before you choose. Hover over a style, or tap it on a phone, and it plays on your own photos in the live preview.
  • None and Fade are on every plan. Rise, Zoom and Cascade come with Pro, and anyone can preview them first.
  • Built to stay quick on phones: each photo animates once, and clients whose devices ask for reduced motion see photos without animation. Existing galleries are unchanged until you pick a style.

August 21, 2026

Free tools, starting with an MLS photo resizer

  • gallerylink.live/tools is a new home for small free tools for photographers. No account needed.
  • The first is an MLS photo resizer for real estate photographers: 2048px or 3000px on the long edge, or 1600px for web and social, saved as JPEG under 3 MB.
  • It runs in your browser, so photos are never uploaded. It also strips EXIF data, so the property's GPS location does not travel with the listing, and it warns you when a photo is portrait.

August 20, 2026

A cleaner gallery for your clients

  • The gallery toolbar is redesigned: photo and video filters sit in a floating pill, while favourites, share links and sort have their own compact group, so the cover stays clean.
  • Selecting photos is now a long-press on any photo, in galleries where sharing is on.
  • Download all and Copy picks appear only when they apply.
  • On phones and tablets, clients can swipe left and right between photos in the full-screen view. Pinch-to-zoom still works as before.

August 19, 2026

Catalogues, menus, and kind words from clients

  • Galleries now come in three kinds: photo delivery as always, a product catalogue, and a product menu. Catalogues show each item's name under its photo (from the filename or a caption you set), visitors build a shortlist instead of album favourites, and every photo carries an ask-about-this-item button that sends inquiries straight to your inbox with the item name attached.
  • A product menu is the same idea for restaurants and cafes: dish names and prices under the photos, no hearts or download clutter, and the QR cards we already print become table cards. Update the folder and the menu on every table updates with it.
  • Kind words, collected instead of typed: send yourstudio.gallerylink.live/kind-words with a delivered gallery and clients can leave a testimonial in their own words. Nothing appears on your page until you approve it from Studio settings.
  • Export any gallery as a print-ready PDF (beta, Studio plan): a cover, your sections as chapters, and item names on catalogues and menus. Built for the buyer who asks for "the PDF", the menu that needs laminating, and the client who wants an attachment.
  • Photos everywhere: the use-case pages, the landing page and the Journal's text-only posts all gained real photography. And GalleryLink is no longer photographers-only on paper: new guides for product catalogues, agencies and event hosts describe what retailers, studios and couples were already doing here.

August 18, 2026

One link for your Instagram bio

  • Every Pro studio now has a link in bio at gallerylink.live/@yourname: your logo, your buttons, and your most recent galleries on one short page built for a phone.
  • It updates itself. The galleries strip follows your latest deliveries, so the link in your bio is current the day after a wedding without you touching it.
  • Add your own buttons beyond the usual socials, put them in any order, and mark the one that leads. A price list, your 2026 dates, a specific gallery: up to six of your own.
  • Clicks are counted per button, so you can see which one people actually press. Find it under Link in bio in your dashboard.
  • Choose the look: round, rounded or square profile picture, outlined, filled or hard-shadow buttons, and a background from your theme, a gradient, or your own hero photograph.

August 12, 2026

A public photographer directory — free client discovery

  • gallerylink.live/photographers is live: a directory of studios on GalleryLink, grouped by city, each linking to the studio's real portfolio and inquiry form. No lead fees, ever — inquiries go straight to you.
  • Every city with a listed studio gets its own page (gallerylink.live/photographers/your-city), built for the searches clients actually make.
  • Listing is opt-in: flip "List my studio" on in Studio settings and add your City to appear on your city's page. Off by default — nothing is listed unless you choose to be.

August 11, 2026

Upload photos directly — no Drive needed

  • New galleries now offer a choice: link a Google Drive folder as always, or upload photos and videos straight to GalleryLink. Drag whole folders in — subfolders become sections, uploads resume if your connection drops, and the live preview fills in as they land.
  • Every plan includes hosted storage: 2 GB free, 10 GB on Pro, and 250 GB on the new Studio plan.
  • Studio also adds one-click ZIP downloads — clients grab the whole gallery (or just their submitted selection) as a single archive, full resolution, exact originals.
  • Studio can stamp your watermark on previews and thumbnails; downloaded originals are always clean. Set it once, switch it per gallery.
  • A new Photos page for uploaded galleries: drag to reorder, move photos between sections, set the cover, delete — the gallery updates instantly.
  • Optional lead capture: ask visitors for their email once before their first download. Every address lands next to the client picks.
  • Send quotes from your inquiries: the client gets an email with your price and terms and approves or declines on one page — you're notified the moment they answer, and approvals move the inquiry to Booked.

August 10, 2026

Try it with your own photos, before signing up

  • Paste a Google Drive folder link on the homepage and see your own photos as a client gallery in a few seconds. No account, no upload, and nothing is saved.
  • Like what you see? Signing up creates that gallery on your new account, so you start with real work in it instead of an empty dashboard.

August 9, 2026

A portfolio that shows your work straight away

  • Your studio page portfolio now shows every photo in the folder you point it at, not just the first twelve, and each one opens fullscreen with arrow keys and swipe, the same as a client gallery.
  • Paste a Google Drive link into Portfolio and the photos appear on your page itself. Nothing for a visitor to click through first.
  • The Portfolio and Slideshow fields now show the Drive link you pasted instead of a raw folder id, so it's clear what belongs there.
  • If your studio page has no work on it yet, your dashboard now tells you, and points at the two settings that fill it.
  • Choose which part of your hero photo stays in frame. A wide hero band can't show a whole photo on a desktop screen, so a nine-point focus picker in Studio → Hero lets you keep the face, or the sky, or whatever matters, instead of the centre.

August 7, 2026

Clients can share photos with their guests

  • Your client taps Select (or holds a photo), picks the ones they want, and gets a link holding only those, ready for WhatsApp or email. Guests see the shared photos and nothing else, with no password and no route into the full gallery.
  • One link per audience: a set for the bride's family, a different set for colleagues, each with its own view count. Their album favourites are never touched.
  • Every share page credits your studio and links to your studio page, so the people most likely to book you next know whose work they're looking at.
  • On by default, and switchable per gallery in Edit gallery for private work.

August 6, 2026

One gallery, many folders

  • Add up to five extra Drive folders to any gallery — second shooter's drive, the reception folder, drone footage — and they merge into one gallery, each folder appearing as its own named section with the scene navigation.
  • You choose how they join: keep each folder as a named section, or merge everything (subfolders included) into one continuous stream with no headings.

August 5, 2026

Galleries install like an app

  • Sign in with Google — one click, no password. Works for new accounts and links automatically to your existing account by email.
  • Your account, in your hands: change your name, email and password, download everything we hold about you as JSON, and delete your account entirely — all from Dashboard → Account.
  • Album view (Pro): turn any gallery into a page-turn flipbook at /album — cover, chapters and a page curl, like a preview of the printed album. Configure whether pages come from the client's selection or the whole gallery in Edit gallery.
  • Clients can save any gallery to their phone's home screen — its own icon made from the cover photo, opens fullscreen like an app. No app store, no account; the button appears automatically on phones.
  • Password-protected galleries keep their privacy: the icon stays a neutral mark and the password gate still applies.
  • Leads on your studio page now have statuses (new, replied, booked, lost) and private notes — a little pipeline right in your dashboard.

August 4, 2026

The Event Suite & studio pages, reimagined

  • Guest uploads (Pro): switch on a guest wall and anyone at the event can add their phone photos and videos from the gallery link — stored by GalleryLink, never touching your Drive.
  • Live view (Pro): /live on any gallery is a fullscreen slideshow for the venue screen that picks up new photos — yours from Drive, guests' from the wall — as they arrive.
  • Studio pages, rebuilt (Pro): new About, Portfolio and FAQ sections, a slideshow or video hero, heading fonts, three gallery layouts — and you choose the order everything appears in.
  • Inquiries (Pro): an optional contact form on your studio page. Leads land in your dashboard and your inbox, and you reply straight to the client.
  • Gallery cards on your studio page now show real cover photos, and a QR code for your studio page is one click away in the dashboard.
  • Multi-day events: galleries with several scenes get a jump bar, so day two never buries day one.
  • Studio page views now show on your studio dashboard.

July 31, 2026

Your links, your way

  • Add custom links to any gallery cover — booking page, print shop, the venue, TikTok — any label, any URL, up to six.
  • The delivery email header is now your studio name (editable, or hide it entirely).

July 30, 2026

Deliver galleries beautifully

  • One Share button on every gallery — link, email, and print in a single place.
  • Email your gallery to clients: your studio name as the sender, a personal note, a live preview of exactly what they'll receive, and replies that land in your inbox (Pro).
  • QR codes, print cards, and A4 posters for every gallery — put one of the gallery's own photos in the centre of the code, download as print-ready PNG.
  • Attach a designed card or poster to the delivery email.
  • Gallery links shared in WhatsApp, iMessage, or Slack now show a photo preview card. Password-protected galleries stay private and show no photo.
  • A ready-to-send delivery message you can copy straight into chat.

July 30, 2026

Know how your galleries are doing

  • Gallery stats (Pro): views, unique visitors, downloads, password unlocks, a 30-day chart, and your most-downloaded photos — your own visits are never counted.
  • View counts on your dashboard cards.
  • Client data is kept private: activity is anonymous and auto-deleted after 180 days.

July 30, 2026

Account & trust

  • Password reset — request a link from the login page, valid 30 minutes.
  • Email from our own domain: write to us at hello@gallerylink.live.
  • New legal pages: cookies, sub-processors, accessibility, and content reporting, plus a clearer privacy policy.

July 29, 2026

A faster, clearer site

  • New guides for wedding, real-estate, event, portrait, and video work, plus five new Journal articles.
  • Sharper gallery sharing links and better search visibility across the site.

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