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One code on the table, and every photo everybody took.

Nobody who takes a photo needs an account. They point a phone at the code, a page opens, they pick their photos and they are done. No app to install, nothing to sign up for, nothing to remember. That is the whole product.

Setting one up

Choose which kind it is

An ongoing collection has one code that never changes, and photos sort themselves by the day they were taken. That is the one for a church, a school, a club or a family: print the code once, laminate it, and it works every week forever. A one occasion collection is a wedding or a party. Same machinery, with an end date.

Print the code

Show the code big puts it full screen on its own, which is what you want when you are testing it with a phone or holding up a tablet at a reception. Print it opens a printable sheet. The small code on the collections list is there to tell collections apart and is deliberately too small to scan. Scan one with your phone before you print the run.

Decide who can see the gallery

Anyone with the link, or only people who have a passcode. A passcode is how you keep the audience to the congregation, the school or the guest list rather than the internet.

Checking photos before anyone sees them

Checking is on by default and should stay on wherever children might be in shot. A photo that is waiting is visible to nobody at all, not on the gallery and not through a link somebody was given. Removing one deletes it, rather than hiding it.

Approve, or remove

New photos appear on the collection screen under Waiting to be checked. Keep or remove each one, or approve the lot in a single click when you have looked through them. Anybody on the account can do this, so it does not stop when one volunteer is away.

Somebody can always take back their own photo

A person who uploads gets a way to remove what they sent, from the same phone, without an account. It is not proof of who they are, and it is not meant to be. It exists so somebody who changes their mind does not have to find an administrator.

Quality

Photos are made smaller before they leave the phone, because venue wifi is usually terrible and a gallery does not need the full file. If the photos are going on a projector, on a screen at the front, or into print, turn on Keep full quality photos in the settings. Uploads take longer, and the photo somebody sends you is the only one you will ever get, so it is worth the wait.

What a year looks like

An ongoing collection files a whole year of photos into days by itself. Nobody creates anything on a Sunday morning, nobody prints a new code, and the gallery grows a section per week. Guests can look at one day or all of them.