WebPicker
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For event & portrait photographers

Shoot the event. Let your clients pick.

Upload the shoot, share one link, and clients anywhere in the world pick their favourites on any phone, even on slow mobile data. Their picks come back to you ready for Lightroom.

Request an invite How it works

An event is three thousand photos, a dozen people with opinions, and a venue with one bar of signal. WebPicker is built for exactly that.

  • 0

    originals uploaded

    Photos are converted on your computer. The RAWs and JPEGs never leave it.

  • 25

    bytes per placeholder

    Every photo arrives with a tiny blurred preview, so the grid is never a wall of grey.

  • 100k+

    photos in one folder

    And the grid still scrolls smoothly, on a phone.

  • 3

    ways to get picks back

    A Lightroom filter, a spreadsheet, or a script that copies the originals.

How it works

Upload tonight. Share tomorrow. Edit only what they picked.

  1. 01Upload

    Drop in the event folder.

    Each photo becomes a small AVIF file right in your browser, one converter per processor core. Your originals stay on your disk. Power cut halfway? Resume, and finished photos are skipped.

  2. 02Share

    Send one link, any way you like.

    Email, WhatsApp, a text message. Give the client, their team and their designer each their own link and their own picks. Add a password or an end date if you like. Your logo, colours and watermark come along.

  3. 03Get the picks

    Their selection, straight into your workflow.

    When they submit, download a Lightroom filter or a spreadsheet, or run a script that copies the matching originals, RAW and XMP included, into “Selected - Press team”.

For your clients

A gallery that feels like the Photos app on their phone.

Large titles, frosted bars, square tiles they can pinch bigger or smaller. Nothing to install and no account to make: they open the link and start picking.

Graduates throwing their caps in front of a university building, open in the gallery viewer

Pick with a tap, or a key.

Space picks a photo; 1–9 sort it into lists. Pinch to zoom, swipe to the next, and see the other frames of a burst underneath.

Swipe through on a phone.

Right to keep, left to skip. It remembers where they stopped.

Bursts fold into one tile.

Twelve frames of the same smile take one square, not a whole row.

Compare side by side.

Two to four near-identical shots, zoomed together, so the best expression is easy to spot.

Your brand on every gallery.

Logo, banner, accent colour and watermark. The watermark is drawn over the photo; your stored files stay clean.

Fine with a bad signal.

Picks made offline stay on the phone and are sent when the connection comes back.

Lists, with limits.

Press kit, prints, social: each with a number included, a maximum, and a total for extras.

Notes on any photo.

They land in your activity feed, next to submissions and change requests.

Four friends smiling together in a park in autumn

Face finding

Tap a face. See every photo of them.

Turn it on and your browser finds the faces while photos upload, in about 50 ms each on the graphics card. Clients get a People row: the headliner, the keynote speaker, the friend who is in every shot, each one tap away.

  • Amara 412 photos
  • Lucas 388 photos
  • Mei 146 photos
  • Add name 97 photos
  • Clients name people themselves. They know the faces better than you do.
  • Fix mistakes in a click. Join two people who are the same, hide strangers, move a face to the right person.
  • Off unless you switch it on. Turning it off deletes every face found.

Built for slow mobile data

Opens fast in a packed stadium, or on hotel Wi-Fi.

Your clients open the link on their phones, on mobile data, often with one bar of signal. Every part of the gallery is built for that.

  • Something on screen at once. The first rows of placeholders arrive with the page, before any script loads. Each photo carries a 25-byte blurred preview.
  • Small files, sharp photos. AVIF thumbnails at 480 px and previews at 2048 px, made on your computer before upload.
  • Huge folders, smooth scrolling. Only the photos on screen are drawn, so a folder of 100,000 scrolls like one of 100.

For your studio

Everything around the gallery, handled.

  • Uploads that resume

    Power cut or closed laptop mid-upload? Resume, and finished photos are skipped. Chrome and Edge even remember the folder.

  • A link per person

    The client, their team, their designer: each with their own picks, and they can see each other’s if you allow it.

  • Passwords and end dates

    Lock any link with a password, or let it close on a date you choose.

  • An activity feed

    Submissions, notes and change requests from every gallery, as they come in.

  • Included and extra photos

    Each list counts what the package includes and what goes beyond it, so extras are clear to everyone.

  • Storage you choose

    Keep the gallery copies on Cloudflare R2, any S3-compatible bucket, or a server’s own disk.

Questions

What photographers ask first.

Do my original photos get uploaded?

No. Your browser makes a small AVIF copy of each photo for viewing, and only those copies are uploaded. The originals stay on your computer, and the copy script finds them there when the picks come back.

Do my clients need an account or an app?

No. They open the link in their phone’s browser and start picking. If they like, they can add the gallery to their home screen and it opens like an app.

Will it work on an old phone or slow data?

That is what it is built for. Placeholders arrive with the page, photos are small AVIF files, and picks made without a signal are sent when it comes back.

How do I get the selection into Lightroom?

Download the Lightroom file-name filter, a CSV or JSON list, or a script for Windows or macOS that copies the matching originals (and RAW or XMP files with the same name) into their own folder.

Is face finding private?

It is off unless you turn it on. Faces are found in your own browser as photos upload. You can switch it off for a single gallery, and turning it off for your account deletes every face found.

What does it cost?

WebPicker is in a closed beta with a small group of studios. Write to hello@webpicker.app for an invite; pricing will be announced before the public launch.

Ready for your next shoot?

We’re opening WebPicker to a small group of photographers and studios. Tell us about yours and we’ll set you up.

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