HOW TO USE YOUR GALLERY
Pixieset is the name of the online gallery delivery system used to share your photos with you! Here’s all you need to know about how to navigate the online gallery and make sure you’re using all of it’s features fully. Following these tips will ensure that you have access to the highest quality version of your photos and that you can use the software to easily organize all of your photos.
When you first click the link to your gallery this is the page you’ll see. From here, you can either click “View Gallery”, or you can scroll down to view your photos. Most sessions will have one large album with all of the photos.
Wedding galleries will have multiple albums within them that are categorized for different parts of the wedding day. You can scroll through these sections, or you can click on the title of the section to jump ahead.
Photo Options In Gallery
Each photo has four options: shop, heart, download, and share.
The shopping bag option is utilized to purchase a print from the luxury online print shop that is attached to your gallery. Clicking this button will add that photo to your shopping bag for purchase.
The heart button is used to “favorite” a photo.
The downward arrow button is used to download your photo.
The arrow curved to the right is used to share the photo. This will not share the downloaded photo, it will simply give you an option to share the photo linked in the gallery.
How and Why to Download Your Photos.
When you click the download arrow on your photo, this box will pop up. You will have to enter your email address in order gain access to the downloaded photo. After the photo is downloaded you can save them somewhere safe, and then post them and print them however you’d like! See the next sections for more information about how to download more than one photo at a time.
HOW
A lot of people are tempted to screenshot their photos from the gallery. Especially when viewing them on your smart phone. If you take a screenshot instead of downloading the photo, the quality export settings on the photo will not remain intact. This means that the photos will be blurry! If you print or post these, they will not show up high quality.
WHY
How to Use the Favorites Feature in Your Gallery.
One Favorites List: If you are planning to only create one list of favorites within your gallery, you can simply click the heart button on each photo you’d like to favorite, and the photos will add to an album. The first time you click on the heart option you will be prompted to enter your email - this is just the email that will be associated with this favorites list, so that multiple people may create their own list of favorites.
Creating Multiple Favorites Lists: If you’d like to create more than one favorites list you’ll need to start by clicking on the heart button in the top right corner of the gallery. You will then be prompted to enter your email address - this will be the email that identifies who is creating the lists. Once you enter your email address you’ll be taken to your page of favorites, where you can create new lists as well as view favorites that you’ve already created.
Downloading Your Favorites: Once you have completed a favorites list, you can download it all at once. This will save you form having to download each photo individually. Click the heart at the top right section of the gallery. Here you will see any favorites lists you have created. Click on one of the albums to open the favorites. Once in this favorites album, click the downward arrow in the top right corner of the favorites list. Follow the prompts on your computer to access the download.
Suggested Favorites Categories for Wedding Galleries: To print, To post, For cellphone, For printed album, To send to Guests, For parent album, etc.
Downloading Your Full Gallery.
Pixieset is a gallery delivery service. This means that the main purpose of your online gallery is to give you access to the photos, and allow a simple way for you to download them to a safe storage place. Most sessions will remain on Pixieset for about 12 months. This allows the client time to download them, organize them into different favorites or categories, and save the photos into a long-term storage place. Wedding galleries will remain on Pixieset indefinitely. Even though wedding galleries will remain on Pixieset, it is just a cloud based storage software, so I recommended (for ALL galleries) that you save your photos onto a hard drive or USB drive to keep another copy somewhere!
To Download Standard Galleries: Click on the downward arrow at the top right of the gallery, enter your email, and then choose your download location. Always be sure to choose the “high resolution” option.
To Download Wedding Galleries: Click on the downward arrow at the top right of the gallery. Enter your email address. One the next page choose the albums that you’d like to download. You can choose any or all of the categories. Be sure to always choose the “high resolution” download option.
Printing Your Photos.
There are multiple ways to print your photos! Your gallery is attached to a luxury print shop called Miller’s Professional Imaging. This print shop is calibrated to make sure that your photos print at the highest quality and color option. If you’d like to purchase prints from this shop, follow these steps.
Click shopping bag option on photo.
Choose print sizes.
Confirm crop and add to cart.
Click on the Shopping Cart at the top of the Gallery, and then Checkout.
The other option for printing your photos would be to download the photos (using the directions in the download section), and then use a print shop of your choice to print them. Many people use print shops like Walmart Photo, CVS and Walgreens, and Shutterfly. These printers will result in lower quality photos, so be careful which shop you use depending on what you plan to use the prints for! Smallwoods is also an option - especially if you are interested in oversized prints for your home.
Ask About Albums!
One of my FAVORITE ways to view your prints is in a printed album. Albums are almost a necessity for wedding galleries! But they can also be great for standard sessions as well. Printed albums can be one of the best ways to share your photos, have them in your home, and save the memories. Online access to photos has greatly decreased the amount of photos being printed, but the best way to enjoy your photos is still in print! I love creating albums for clients, so reach out if you want more details about ordering an album through Flat Ridge.
Thank You!
If you have ANY other questions about the information above, or how you can best use your online gallery please don’t hesitate to reach out to me! I cannot wait to work with you again in the future and look forward to seeing how you’re able to use your photos!