New photo galleries - let chat!

I’m glad to see a post on here. I don’t even know if this community is even active anymore but I actually came on here to provide feedback for the galleries. 

I’m a wedding & portrait photographer, running a high volume studio. I’ve used all the options before: Pixieset, Pic-Time (currently) and even Sprout Studio. 

What Honeybook has done well is create a very simple, easy to use gallery. Both on the client’s end and on the back end. It’s easy to upload. Simple to change settings and easy for the client to view, share, and download images both on desktop & mobile.

Where HB needs to polish things up: 

• A store is needed sooner rather than later: To launch galleries without even a basic store seems silly to me. While the world we live in is very digital, some photographers make a lot of extra $$ on prints. I hope to see this feature launch within the next few months, before the fall season. Hopefully they integrate with the world’s leading labs as well like all the other gallery competitors. 
• Ability to limit downloads to just clients: Seems simple enough, but needs to happen. Right now download is either on or off. I limit my downloads to JUST the clients and anyone I invite (like another vendor). Alternatively, a download CODE would work just as well.
• Mobile link sharing needs preview of gallery: Right now, when you share the link via text messages, a little preview of the gallery doesn’t appear. instead it’s your generic HB logo link. Would love if this actually showed the cover image to the gallery. 

Down the line something that would be nice:

• Email marketing integration: Similar to how Pic-Time does it, or Pixieset. The ability to add email campaigns and promotions so that way our clients can take advantage of a discount in the print store would be ideal. 

Overall - HB has built a very clean, easy to use system for us and our clients. But I think simple tweaks and additional features down the line would make it even better! 

I’m using it with a client right now to do photo selection from the initial gallery and it’s working well. It has a nice, clean look to it, simple for my clients to use. Since it doesn’t have a store I will deliver the final gallery via Smugmug which is my current process. I love the idea of having galleries in Honeybook but the store is a must have for me.

I am currently in the process of switching my business away from Pixpa and moving over to HoneyBook Galleries! I absolutely love the clean look of the new galleries, but as I migrate my workflow over, I wanted to provide a few crucial pieces of feedback regarding the user and client experience:

1. Mobile Grid Layout Customization The desktop layouts look phenomenal, but I would love to see an option where we can manually adjust the column layout for mobile devices. Right now, the forced single-image vertical scroll on mobile feels a bit clunky for a photography delivery experience. I would love to have a setting that lets me change the mobile layout to a side-by-side, two-photo-wide grid (similar to what platforms like Pixpa and Pixieset offer). It makes browsing large sets of images much cleaner for the client.

2. Built-in Print Store / Custom Photobook Sales While I include photobooks as an add-on package in my initial booking workflows, I would love for HoneyBook Galleries to feature a built-in print shop or print store element. Specifically, it would be incredible to have an automated prompt or call-to-action button trigger at the very end of the gallery that says something like "Shop the Store" or "Buy your custom photobook." Having a direct way for clients (and their guests) to easily buy prints or order books directly from the gallery—and having HoneyBook instantly notify me when a client clicks or makes a purchase—would be a massive game-changer for building passive print revenue.

3. Post-Project / Archived Project Gallery Access When a session or wedding is finished and I move the project to "Archived" or "Completed" to keep my pipeline clean, do my clients lose active access to their photos?

In my workflow, I promise clients at least three months of continuous gallery access after a standard session, and even longer for weddings. When I'm moving through a high volume of projects quickly, I need to know that once a project is "done and delivered" and moved out of my active pipeline, the gallery remains fully active, published, and accessible via the client portal and direct link for the remainder of their timeframe. If archiving a project automatically expires it, I'd highly request a feature where galleries can stay independent of the active pipeline stage until a manually set expiration date passes.

I was so excited for this, but because almost all of my clients proof their images, not having a way to flow file selections to editing software is a non-starter for me. So disappointing! I have been using Honeybook and Pixieset for a while, and wish I could put everything in one place. Pixieset has the ability to do everything, but moving CRM data to that platform would be a heavier lift than I can manage at this time. Hoping HB starts offering the same proofing options as Pixieset.

First time trying to use a gallery and setting up my watermark.  Even on the large setting my watermark is so so small!  I normally have mine really big and transparent in Shootproof.  Is there a way around this so it’s bigger than an inch lol.  I was so excited for this :(

I just wanted to put in a suggestion for the galleries feature. Would be amazing if it could let us save default settings for cover designs, fonts, thumbnail sizes, etc. so that each time we upload a gallery it's already done and consistent. ❤️

I’m going to make this easy by using bullet points to list a few things I currently feel could use some adjustments. I do want to preface I’m sure kinks are being ironed out as to be expected upon release of a new feature!

• Client Mobile Download
  • Currently, my clients have found the only way to save individual photos on their mobile devices is by hard/long clicking on the image and downloading from there (after pressing the dedicated download button at the top and choosing the resolution). If there is a more effective way to streamline this process into less steps, that would be awesome.
• Being able to ACCESS gallery settings on our end via the HB app
• Having downloads limited to an access code/password, whereas currently any viewer of the gallery can download images as they please 
• As mentioned above, enlarging the “watermark” as even at its largest, it is still relatively small

Hi!!! As a founding member who's also a wedding photographer, I found very exciting the prospect of having client galleries embedded within my CRM, but the platform isn't ready yet for ME, so I'd also like to provide feedback in hopes that sometime next year I can just keep it all under honeybook's umbrella. 

I originally had smugmug as my gallery delivery for over 10 years, and recently migrated to pic-time becuase of their state-of-the-art design and features, I'd love to switch to honeybook, but these are my minimums to meet:

• Lightroom uploader plugin- both smugmug and pic-time offer a plugin to upload straight from lightroom without needing to export physical .JPEGs first. This is crucial in my workflow. 
• Galleries and settings accessible from the HB app
• Print store integration- My current pic-time subscription pays for itself with the print shop.
• CRM and Sales integration- I set marketing campaigns on pic-time once, and it automatically sends to every past and future client based on sales events, holidays, or anniversaries. 

Not a photographer, but a planner. I was excited to see galleries roll out as a way to store and organize photos from our events for use on socials and submissions. It is very hard to track all those images, different download links etc. We’d rather select 10-15 great ones from each wedding and archive in the file.

I’ve used Smugmug for 3 years without realizing it could do this. Running now to check that out!

Ability to make the watermark the entire image size. This is important, thank you!