Feature

Delivering photos and films to clients

One link. Films and photographs. Yours to keep.

Pro

Delivery is the last thing a client experiences, and for a lot of studios it is a download link in a plain email. A gallery that looks like your work deserves to look is the cheapest marketing you will ever do, because it is the thing they show other people.

Who it is for: Photographers and video teams handing over finished work — weddings, commercial, real estate, events, portraits.

1

Upload the work

Stills and films go into the same gallery. Big files are handled properly: anything over 100 MB uploads in parts and resumes where it stopped if your connection drops, up to 50 GB a file. A full set of 4K masters is a normal thing to send, not a problem to work around.

2

Make it look like yours

Choose a cover layout and a typeface, add your logo as a watermark if you want one, write the note the client reads at the top. A wedding gallery leads with the film; a real estate delivery is laid out for an agent in a hurry. Slate picks the right presentation from the kind of job it is.

The cover a client lands on — your layout, your typeface, your name on it.
The cover a client lands on — your layout, your typeface, your name on it.
3

Let them choose, if you want them to

Send proofs first and let the client pick their favourites. Their picks come straight back to you, and you can send a batch to your editor with a note attached — which the editor sees on their own dashboard rather than in a separate message you have to write.

Client picks come back as a list, ready to send to whoever is editing.
Client picks come back as a list, ready to send to whoever is editing.
4

They download what they came for

Clients get the full-quality original, not a re-compressed copy — unless it is a real estate job, where a smaller file is the point. Everything a client has ever been sent also lives at one permanent link, so a bride looking for her photos two years later does not have to email you.

The gallery as the client sees it: films first, then the photographs.
The gallery as the client sees it: films first, then the photographs.

Free templates for this

Not ready for the app? These do a piece of it by hand, free and with no signup.

Also included

  • A permanent client hub holding every gallery you have ever delivered them
  • A review request on the delivered gallery and by email a few days later
  • View-only galleries where downloads are off
  • Folders inside a gallery, used as chapters in the editorial layout
  • Files kept for 30 days after a paid plan ends, with warning emails before anything goes

The gallery is the part of your business the client is most likely to show someone else. It is worth it looking right.

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FAQ

What does delivering photos and films to clients mean in Slate?
Delivery is the last thing a client experiences, and for a lot of studios it is a download link in a plain email. A gallery that looks like your work deserves to look is the cheapest marketing you will ever do, because it is the thing they show other people.
Who is this for?
Photographers and video teams handing over finished work — weddings, commercial, real estate, events, portraits.
How does it work?
4 steps: Upload the work → Make it look like yours → Let them choose, if you want them to → They download what they came for.
Which plan includes it?
This is part of Slate Pro, $19.99/mo. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial.

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