Friends and Family Access
Elegant Galleries provides more than just a solution for photographers and clients. Friends and family can view portraits, guests can access wedding photos, and clients can share their memories and photos with additional potential customers.

And because each visitor has their own account, they can create their own favorites folders, leave comments, and order photos without bugging the client directly.

Favorite Folders
Let your clients and guests save their favorite images in a 'favorites folder' for easy access later. These make it easy for visitors to share opinions with each other, and easy for clients to get a list of photos for printing or album design to their photographer.

Personalized Automated Mailings
Success in business is about automation, and Elegant Galleries makes that easy. Setup a series of automated emails you want to have sent to clients with powerful scheduling options, and even use their name or other variable information in the body. These let you remind guests of soon to expire events, or add a little extra punch to a special promotion. Best of all, you need only check one checkbox when creating an event to set the whole campaign in motion.

Personalized Automated Specials
Like our mailings, specials can be setup as fire-and-forget solutions. Provide early birds a few percent off their orders, or boost last minute sales with a 2-for-1 promotion. Whatever your approach, Elegant Galleries will take care of the gruntwork while you get back to creating art.

Visitor Level Traffic Reporting
Track traffic to your events from a top level stacked area graph of total activity, down to a granular list of pageviews by each unique visitor for an individual event.

Multiple Pricelists
You have full control over your pricing. Create as many pricelists as you need, and control each at a very granular level. Along with Elegant Galleries' offerings, you may add products that you will stock and provide for your customers through other channels.

Integrated CRM
When planning extended events, such as weddings, remembering the names of the wedding party or what you previously discussed with the clients can make meetings awkward. Keep track of the wedding participants, and communications you've had with them, using our built in CRM system.

Low Compression Display Images
Most gallery systems use high jpg compression to minimize bandwidth and server storage space. Elegant Galleries keeps your display files vivid and crisp, leading to greater emotional impact and, subsequently, more sales.

Integrated Client Blog
There's nothing brides like more than to talk about their wedding, and many setup websites and blogs to do just that. You can build good will by giving brides and guests that functionality. Guests will begin to visit the page continually. When the photos are released, guests will feel comfortable stopping back and keeping interest high through discussion, which leads to increased sales.

Registry Links
The more you can do to make your gallery page the center of a wedding or other big event, the more likely you are to keep guests coming back ready to buy prints. Our registries page is just one more step in that direction, letting clients setup their gift registries to be accessed directly from Elegant Galleries. Give your clients the tools they need to keep all their information in one place, and they will appreciate it.

Turn-By-Turn Directions
Clients don't always know their way to your studio for their first session, and wedding guests come in from all over the country. Don't let them arrive aggravated, ready to snap at you for the most minor indiscretion.

Setup each location for the shoot, along with times, on our locations page. Visitors can then get turn by turn directions provided directly by Google Maps, and clients will always have access to modify these locations and times themselves so that you can save time.

Image Commenting
Clients love hearing what friends and family think of their pictures, and so do photographers! Keep interest hot by allowing discussions about the photos right within the gallery, and keep up on what your clients love and hate before they even pick up the phone to call you.

Photographer Profile
Your logo is always predominately displayed in the upper left corner of every page, and clicking on it provides the visitor with information about your business, links to other events you've done, and other relevant information. Even setup sample events here.

Digital Download Product
As technology progresses, more and more clients are taking the digital plunge, asking to have digital copies of photos with reprint rights rather than buying physical prints. Elegant Galleries allows you to offer a digital download as a purchase option for individual prints, after which clients can download the full resolution files you provided any time in the following 6 months.

Tag Based Organization
Categories allow you to break your images down into a logical order or progression, but for large events visitors need more versatility in moving around the gallery and finding what they want. Multiple tags can be applied to any given photo, allowing you to better categorize each shot. The ring bearer tripping over the wedding gown can still be put into the 'Ceremony' category, but users can also find it by choosing tags like 'Funny' or 'Kids'.

Key Based Private Access
Photographing individuals at a public event? Our key system makes this easy. Give each subject a random 'key', an alphanumeric code that you create, then assign that code to one or more images when you upload your event. When a client visits the event on Elegant Galleries they'll see only public images and those with their own key attached; all others will be hidden.

Key's can also be built into urls so clients can type an address from a card, or click a link in an email, and immediately see their own images.

Customer Controlled Cropping
When customers order a print that is a different aspect ratio than the original file, Elegant Galleries will auto crop an equal area off each side to create a fit. However, these crop areas are clearly displayed in the shopping cart, and customers are then free to use an intuitive tool to resize and reposition them.

Slideshow Viewing Mode
Different clients will have different preferences on how to view their photos. But at some point, whether they're seeing them for the first time or showing their session to friends and family, they will likely want to bring up a slideshow. Elegant Galleries provides this functionality for entire categories, favorites folders, tags, and any other viewing mode. Best of all the slideshows run in HTML and Javascript, so no plugins or extensions, like Flash, are needed.

Picassa Integration
Whether you've shot a gargantuan wedding or a small family photo session, you'll eventually need to sit down with clients and show them the results. Use Google's Picassa, and you can change tonality and favorite images during the review, and have those changes reflected on Elegant Galleries. You need only upload the file that Picassa creates and Elegant Galleries creates favorite folders, copies images in a new tonality, and simplifies your proofing and review job!

Filename Parsing
Time is your most valuable asset. Elegant Galleries was developed by a wedding and portrait photographer with years of experience, and was specifically designed to streamline your workflow.

One such area is the ability to add descriptions, tags, keys, and sorting information directly to your filenames via a bulk rename. When you upload these images to the gallery our system parses out the relevant details the moment it processes the photos. Further, photo date and time are pulled from the EXIF data written by your camera for automated sorting. Spend less time administering events, and more time shooting them!

Pure DHTML Interface
Many websites today rely on proprietary plugins, such as Flash, for rich content. However, even Flash reaches only 93% of the PC market and less than 50% of the mobile market. In addition, these plugins break basic browser functionality, such as direct links or the back button, irritating some users.

Elegant Galleries relies upon standards compliant DHTML for virtually all of its rich content, making it reliable on every major browser, across operating systems, and even on mobile phones.