Client photo selection that ends at your editing software
Selection is where a wedding job stalls. The client has four thousand proofs, a number they are allowed to pick, and no deadline they can feel — so nothing comes back for a month. This turns it into a link with a target, a date, and a reminder, and ends with the chosen originals on your designer’s desk.
How it works
Proofs go up watermarked, behind a PIN
Every shot as a watermarked proof on a PIN-protected link. Nothing leaves your hands unprotected.
They heart their favourites
Against a selection target and a deadline, so they know how many they get and by when.
A WhatsApp nudge when it is pending
The reminder is the part that actually moves the job along.
The designer gets exactly those originals
Nothing extra. And the picks export as XMP ratings straight into Lightroom or Capture One.
What is different here
It ends inside your editing software
XMP ratings for Lightroom or Capture One. Most tools hand you a list of filenames and leave the retyping to you.
The client’s own choices are recoverable
A selection carries their hearts and their comments. Deleting one used to be permanent; now it is restorable, because losing a client’s month of decisions is not a recoverable kind of mistake socially.
A target and a deadline, not an open-ended folder
The number they may pick and the date it is due are part of the link, so the conversation is about the photographs rather than the rules.
Questions studios ask
- Can I limit how many photos the client picks?
- Yes. A selection has a target and a deadline, and the client sees both while they choose.
- How do the chosen photos reach my editor?
- Your designer gets exactly the chosen originals and nothing else, and the picks also export as XMP ratings for Lightroom or Capture One.
- Are the proofs protected?
- Every proof is watermarked and the link is PIN-protected. Originals are not handed out as part of selection.
- What if the client stops halfway?
- A WhatsApp nudge goes out while the selection is still pending, and their partial choices are kept.