The last thing your client sees should still be yours.
Deliver a shoot as a gallery, not a transfer link that expires in seven days because somebody else decided so. PIN protected, proofed, sold, and downloaded, all on your own domain, for exactly as long as you say.
Your Studio
Oakfield House · 248 photos
This gallery is private
Enter the four-digit PIN from your email
One link, one PIN, and the shoot on your own domain. Previews carry your watermark until you release the files; favourites and downloads sit in the same place.
From card to client in three steps.
The resizing and the zipping happen without you. So does finding out which frames they actually want.
- 01
Upload the shoot
Drag in a folder of JPEGs and walk away. Xposure builds web sizes, thumbnails, and watermarked previews, and reads the camera settings off every frame while you do something else.
- 02
Set the terms
Add a PIN, pick a layout, schedule the reveal, turn on proofing, and price digital downloads. Or change nothing at all and send it exactly as it landed.
- 03
Send one link
Your client opens the gallery on your domain, favourites their picks, and downloads the full-resolution files. Their shortlist comes back to you as one email.
Watermarks
Marked while they browse. Clean when they buy.
Every preview in the gallery carries your mark. The download is the full-resolution file you exported, with nothing burned into it and no second pass of compression.
- Watermarked previews on by default, per gallery
- Your own mark on Studio, or a clean type mark on any plan
- Downloads switch off per gallery, or follow the price when on
- One file or the whole set as a zip, both full resolution
How do you send photos to a client without losing quality?
Send a link to the file rather than the file itself. Attachments and chat apps re-encode a photograph to fit a size limit, and that pass is not reversible. A gallery keeps your export as you exported it and builds a separate, smaller copy for the screen, so what the client browses and what the client downloads are two different files.
Email, chat apps, most transfer links
- Your export
- Re-encoded to fit a limit
- Client saves a copy of a copy
Pixels resampled, quality gone for good
A client gallery
- Your export
- A web preview is built alongside it
- Client saves your file
Same pixels, never re-compressed
A JPEG you upload is handed back with its compressed data untouched, and HEIC and RAW files are stored byte for byte. The only thing removed from a download is the embedded metadata, which is stripped so a client cannot read the location a photograph was taken from. The camera settings still appear under the frame in the gallery.
They pick. You get one email.
Clients star the frames they want and leave notes on individual photos. Everything from one sitting arrives as a single digest rather than a notification per click. See how client proofing works.
Could we try this one in black and white?
Amara has finished selecting
galleries@yourstudio.com · Oakfield House
4 over the 20-photo limit on this gallery
Make them wait properly.
Schedule the moment a gallery opens and clients land on a countdown instead of a locked page. Pick the one that suits the shoot.
Cards
Four tiles, each unit labelled. The clearest of the set.
Flip
A split-flap board. The one that feels like an event.
Line
One monospaced row. Quiet enough to sit under a cover photo.
Words
No digits at all, just the moment it opens.
Three things the gallery above doesn't show.
A second PIN for the guests, a store you keep the takings from, and a page that carries your name rather than ours.
- A second, guest PIN
- The client gets their own PIN. Hand out a separate guest one so family and friends can browse the same gallery, and buy from it, without touching the selection or the downloads.
- Sell without the cut
- Price photos individually or as a bundle, and offer prints, wall art and albums that a professional lab makes and ships. Payments run through your own Stripe account, so you are the seller and the money lands with you. Zero platform commission on Pro and Studio.
- A gallery that looks like yours
- Four layout densities, serif presets, a personal note and a signed footer. On every paid plan the whole thing sits on your own domain with no Xposure branding anywhere a client can see.
Client galleries and custom domains are on every paid plan. Reveal countdowns and the Lightroom plugin start on Pro; a custom watermark comes with Studio. See the full plan comparison, or how print sales work.
Common questions
The things photographers ask before handing us a paying client's shoot.
Do clients need an account to open a gallery?
No. A client opens the gallery with the link and the PIN if you set one. They can browse, favourite, and download full-resolution files without creating anything.
Can I stop clients downloading the originals?
Yes. Turn downloads off on a gallery and clients can browse the whole thing but save nothing from it, and anything already bought stays downloadable for the person who bought it. With downloads on, an unpriced gallery hands full-resolution files to anyone who can open it, and a priced one hands over only what has been paid for. Either way, what they get is the file you exported and not a recompressed copy.
Can I set an expiry date on a client gallery?
Yes. Give a gallery a closing date and time and it stops opening for clients the moment it passes, with a page telling them when it closed rather than an error. Nothing is deleted, so you can push the date back or clear it whenever you like, and anything a client has already bought stays downloadable for them.
How do I stop a client sharing the gallery link?
Set a PIN, so the link on its own opens nothing, and give family a separate guest PIN that can browse and buy but cannot change the selection. If a link does travel further than you meant it to, pause the gallery from your dashboard and every link to it stops working immediately, including the one you already sent.
How does proofing work?
Turn proofing on for a gallery and clients can favourite frames and leave notes. You can cap how many they pick, and a separate guest PIN lets family browse without changing the selection. Their picks arrive as one digest email per sitting.
Can I put a film in a client gallery?
Yes. Drop a video block into the gallery and paste a YouTube or Vimeo link, and the film sits beside the photographs. Until a visitor presses play they see a still frame from the shoot, or a plain panel in your gallery colours, so nothing loads from YouTube or Vimeo before then. Xposure does not host or stream the video itself, so the film stays where you uploaded it and uses none of your storage. Video blocks are on every paid plan.
What commission do you take when a client buys photos?
Zero on Pro and Studio, and 10 percent on Starter. Payments run through your own Stripe account, so standard Stripe processing fees still apply and the payout goes straight to your bank.
Can galleries live on my own domain?
Yes, on every paid plan. Point a domain from any registrar at Xposure and your galleries are served from your URL, with no platform branding on the page.
Coming from another platform? See how Xposure compares with Pixieset, Pic-Time, and ShootProof.
Deliver the next one properly.
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