Client Galleries & Proofing

A gallery is how your finished work reaches a client — and how it's the first impression of your business online, so it needs to feel as premium as the photos inside it.

Creating a gallery

From Galleries → New Gallery, attach it to a client, then upload photos and video into it directly or organize them into albums (useful for a wedding with a ceremony, reception, and detail-shots split, or a brand shoot with multiple locations). Each piece of media keeps its own metadata — filename, dimensions, favorite status — so nothing gets renamed or re-compressed on the way in.

Choosing a cover

Every gallery gets a cover built from a template — Novel, Vintage, Frame, Stripe, Divider, Journal, Stamp, or Outline — each combining your logo, brand color, gallery name, shoot date, and a cover image differently. Preview all eight before picking one; you can change it later without touching the gallery's content.

By default a gallery uses your studio's branding. If you want a specific gallery to look different — a client's own wedding hashtag and colors, for instance — turn on custom branding for that gallery under its share settings and override the name, logo, and color just for that link.

Controlling access

Per gallery, you can set:

• Password protection — require a password before anyone can view it.
• Downloads — full-resolution originals, a bulk ZIP of the whole gallery, both, or neither.
• Favorites and comments — let clients mark their picks and leave notes, which is how proofing works (see below).
• Watermarking — apply a watermark to preview images so nothing gets lifted before it's paid for or approved.
• Expiry — set a number of days after which the gallery link stops working, useful for time-limited proofing windows.

Proofing: how clients pick their favorites

When favorites are enabled, clients can go through the gallery and mark the images they love directly — no separate app, no emailed list of file numbers. You see their favorites in real time from the dashboard, which is what makes album design or a reprint order fast: you already know which images they picked before you even talk to them.

Sharing and delivery

Publishing a gallery gives you a link at lensflow.co.ke/g/[token] that works for anyone with the link — your client doesn't need an account to view, favorite, or download. Each gallery also tracks view count and download count, so you can tell whether a client has actually opened it before you follow up.

When you're ready to hand off final images, set the gallery to allow downloads and share the same link — there's no separate "delivery" step to manage. One link, from proofing through final delivery.