The fastest way to lose the good feeling after a shoot is to let delivery drag on for two weeks. Clients remember how quickly they saw their photos almost as much as the photos themselves. Here is the workflow we recommend, start to finish in about ten minutes once your edits are done.

Export once, at web size

You do not need full-resolution files in the preview gallery. Export a single web-sized JPEG set (long edge around 2048px, sRGB, quality 76) into one folder. This keeps uploads fast and your originals untouched.

  • One folder, one export preset, no subfolders to untangle later.
  • Name files by sequence, not camera number, so the story reads in order.
  • Skip the watermark on paid galleries; add it only on public previews.

In your dashboard, make a new gallery and drag the folder in. Xposure handles the transcoding and builds responsive previews, so you are not waiting on per-image processing.

A gallery is a first impression, not a file dump. A tight, well-ordered set of forty images lands harder than two hundred near-duplicates.

Give the gallery a single PIN and send the client the link. That is the whole handoff, with no accounts to create and no app to install. You will see every download and favorite in your analytics, which tells you which images to pitch as prints.

Make it repeatable

Save your export preset and a gallery template so next time is muscle memory. The goal is that delivery stops being a project and becomes a habit: the same ten minutes, every shoot.