picu – Online Photo Proofing Gallery
Professional Photo Proofing Gallery Plugin for WordPress Take your photography business to the next level with picu – the ultimate photo proofing solution for professional photographers. Create private photo galleries for clients and make online photo approval simple, accurate, and fast. All galleries are customizable, and proofing with picu makes it easier than ever for both you and your clients. Introduction Are you a professional photographer looking to improve the way you work with clients by streamlining your photo proofing process? Look no further than picu – the comprehensive WordPress photo proofing plugin. Designed to make it quick and easy to create online client galleries – use picu to let your clients make their preferred selections, and organize the entire workflow directly in WordPress so you can keep clients on the website you fully own & control. Prefer to see a 3 minute demo of how easy and effective using picu is? Take a look at the video below for a complete walkthrough of the photo proofing process with picu: Why Photographers Choose picu for their Client Approval Workflow picu is not just another plugin. It’s a whole new way of enabling clients to view and approve photos online. Free yourself up from endless admin, speed up project turnaround times, and delight your clients with an easy way to view, approve, and share feedback with you. Let’s take a closer look at exactly how picu can help you with your photography business: Effortless Client Approval It’s time to say goodbye to endless back-and-forth emails and switch to an approval workflow that makes it easy for both you and your clients. With picu, you can share a link to photo galleries directly on your own website (not some third-party service) and make it effortless for your clients to browse and confirm their selections – as well as leave comments as they do so. Seamless Workflow The approval process with picu is as easy as it gets. As soon as you’ve created your gallery, simply send an automated email to your clients or manually copy the link to share with them separately. This link will allow them to view their photos and make their selections. Once they approve a collection, you’ll receive an automatic email notification, so you’re always in the loop without the hassle of chasing clients up. Integration with Your Workflow picu seamlessly integrates with your existing photo management software. After your client approves a collection, you can easily retrieve their selections and incorporate them into your preferred workflow. Everything happens within the familiar environment of your WordPress website, making for a seamless photo proofing experience. Stunning, Theme-Independent Design picu prides itself on its beautiful, theme-independent design for proofing collections. This ensures a consistent, user-friendly, and easy-to-understand workflow for your clients. But that’s not all – picu Pro takes it a step further by allowing you to customize the client photo gallery to match your branding, providing your clients with a personalized proofing experience that reinforces your professional image. Enhance Your Brand (Pro Only) With picu Pro, you have the power to add your custom logo and tailor the appearance of your galleries to align with your unique branding. This level of customization distinguishes you from the competition, and leaves a lasting impression on your clients. Set yourself apart from those photographers still using Dropbox or Google Drive, sending people away from their own website and relying on manual back & forth to keep track of every collection they’re waiting for approval on. Interactive Image Feedback (Pro Only) picu Pro introduces the ability for your clients to provide feedback by adding comments and markers to individual images. This really helps make the communication meaningful, since all comments are directly attached to the images they relate to, rather than being included in separate emails or messages. Easily understand client preferences and requirements accurately, including which images they are referring to, every time. Flexible Selection Options (Pro Only) Want to specify the minimum or maximum number of images your client can select? No problem. With picu, you can use the selection options feature to define the number or range of images clients can approve, adding clarity to the approval process, and ensuring your clients meet their selection quotas every time. Download Capability (Pro Only) You can (optionally) allow clients to download all images in a convenient .zip file using the download feature. This feature is often popular with clients as it makes it easy for them to access and share the approved images with others. This is an optional feature you can enable for each gallery/client if you choose to use it. Efficient Image Management (Pro Only) Streamline image management with the import feature. Easily upload large quantities of images via FTP and import them to picu directly from your web server. This completely removes the need for time-consuming manual uploads, making your workflow more efficient. Theft Protection (Pro Only) Protect your valuable images from theft with picu Pro’s robust theft protection measures. These measures include the ability to add watermarks to your uploads, along with other security features to ensure that your work remains secure. Multi-Client Support (Pro Only) picu Pro’s multi-client support is ideal for photographers who manage multiple clients. Send photo collections to multiple recipients and receive individual selections, ensuring a seamless and organized workflow. Priority Support (Pro Only) At picu, we value our customers, and we’re committed to providing exceptional support. picu Pro offers priority support via email exclusively to Pro license holders. When you need assistance, you can count on prompt and personalized support to address your specific needs. Why Choose picu? picu is a WordPress plugin designed for photographers, by photographers. We know and understand your pain points – we’ve had them ourselves! And that’s why we built picu. It’s more than just a client photo proofing plugin, as it allows you to streamline everything from creating galleries, sharing photo galleries, communicating with clients in a much more efficient way, and having clients approve photos quicker and more accurately than ever. Say goodbye to long waits, endless email threads, vague feedback, and confusion about which image is which. Here’s why photographers choose picu as their go-to photo proofing solution: 1. Streamlined Client Experience: With picu, you can create a seamless client experience that sets you apart in the industry. Impress your clients with proofing galleries, interactive feedback options, and efficient communication. 2. Brand Reinforcement: picu Pro allows you to reinforce your brand identity. Add your custom logo and tailor the client gallery’s appearance to match your unique branding, leaving a lasting impression. 3. Enhanced Client Interaction: picu Pro enables you to receive detailed feedback from clients by enabling them to leave comments for individual photos. Understand exactly what they want with their comments attached directly to the photo, so there’s no risk of any confusion later on. 4. Streamlined Decision-Making: Define selection quotas with the selection options feature, making it easy for clients to meet their requirements. Set a minimum or maximum number of images to select – as a range between two values, or a fixed number. Eliminate confusion with a straightforward approval process. 5. Client Convenience: The download feature enables clients to access and share approved images effortlessly. Deliver a convenient service that enhances client satisfaction. 6. Efficient Workflow: picu streamlines your workflow with the import feature, eliminating the need for manual uploads. Spend more time on what you do best – capturing stunning photos. And when ready, import photos in bulk. 7. Safeguard Your Images: Protect your work from theft with picu Pro’s watermarking tool. Safeguard your images with watermarks, giving you peace of mind. 8. Multi-Client Proofing: For photographers handling many clients, picu Pro’s support for multiple clients is a game-changer. Get feedback and approval of multiple client interactions efficiently, all on your WordPress site. 9. Priority Support: As a Pro license holder, you gain access to priority support via email. When you have questions or encounter challenges, our dedicated support team is here to assist you promptly. Get Started with picu Pro Have questions or suggestions? Get in touch with us on the forums for support, or via our website for pre-sales questions – we’re here to assist you and value your feedback. Elevate your photography business with picu – your all-in-one solution for professional online photo proofing with WordPress. Requirements PHP 7.4 WordPress 6.0 Website picu.io Authors Claudio Rimann Florian Ziegler
Gallery by Visual Portfolio
Photo gallery and portfolio plugin for WordPress ★★★★★ Visual Portfolio is a WordPress gallery plugin built around gallery and portfolio blocks. Use it for photo galleries, image galleries, video galleries, and albums. Pick masonry, justified, tiles, grid, slider, or carousel layouts. See Live Demo | Documentation | GitHub Keep it simple with a basic image gallery, or go further with nested galleries, filterable portfolio grids, post grids, and taxonomy grids. Add images, choose a layout, then tweak skins and the lightbox. You do not need to write code. 🏆 Visual Gallery Builder Build gallery and portfolio blocks without coding. Customize layouts visually with live preview in the editor. Supported layouts: Masonry, Justified, Tiles, Grid, Slider, and Carousel. You get skins and the usual gallery controls in one place. 🚀 Optimized to be Fast as Native Despite the rich functionality, the Visual Portfolio is optimized as much as possible, to be fast and lightweight. Due to the modular code structure, all scripts and styles are loaded only when they are needed for the current page that displays your gallery. So, your pages will never load unused features. Pictures are not loaded in the main thread due to lazy loading. Moreover, our plugin is compatible with third-party WebP providers and image optimization plugins. Smart adaptive image sizes fully supported in any gallery, created with Visual Portfolio plugin. 📱 Layouts Our gallery plugin shipped with popular layouts such as Masonry and Justified (Flickr). Every feature optimized and works seamlessly with all of these layouts, you just need to set up and go with no headache. See it in action: Masonry Gallery Justified (Flickr) Gallery Tiles Gallery Grid Gallery Slider Gallery (Fade, Carousel, Coverflow) 🎨 Prebuilt Skins Showcase your projects and gallery images with clean and beautiful skins. See it in action: Classic Fade Emerge Fly Caption Move ⚙️ Easy to Customize The gallery block with live preview includes a lot of design settings that are point-and-click, no coding knowledge required. If you’re a bit more adventurous, the custom CSS module and PHP filters are set up to be easily used by developers. 📁 Portfolio Post Type Optional custom post type portfolio will ensure all your portfolios to keep in a single post type. In this way, you can distinguish your portfolios from other post types. Taxonomies are used to categorize your portfolio types, it will help you to group and sort your portfolios. Moreover, you can use these portfolios as a source for your showcase gallery using Visual Portfolio block. Customize and rename Portfolio archive templates using the gallery block and page builders: https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/portfolio-archive/ In case you want to use Visual Portfolio plugin for photo gallery only you can disable custom post type registration. 💎 Posts Query Builder Fine-tune the source of your galleries. Display posts, portfolios, taxonomies, and any other post types, filter by taxonomies, author, and date ranges, include or exclude specific posts, and build post grids or taxonomy grids from the same workflow. 🖼️ Photo Galleries Create galleries from image sets right inside the gallery block: drop your images in and the gallery is ready. You can create unlimited image galleries with different styles, build album galleries with nested galleries in Pro, and combine images with video items for richer visual storytelling. ⚡ Powerful Lightbox Visual Portfolio uses only modern solutions, and lightboxes are not an exception. High performance, mobile optimization, retina-ready, and a wide range of features available in Fancybox and PhotoSwipe plugins, that you can choose for your gallery lightboxes. Mobile Optimized Looks great on every device. Swipe to navigate, spread/pinch to zoom in/out supported on touch devices. GPU Accelerated Hardware accelerated animations for better performance and seamless user experience. Smart Loading Gallery images are responsive and loaded progressively using lazy loading on demand. Social Sharing You can allow users to share photos on Facebook, X, and Pinterest with social sharing buttons. 📹 Video and 🎵 Audio Support Visual Portfolio plugin allows you to work with audios and videos within a single gallery. You can paste a supported video or audio URL and it will work automatically in the popup gallery. In Pro, you can also add dedicated video items directly to image galleries and post grids, including autoplay on open or playback on hover. The full list with supported vendors see below. Supported Video Vendors: Youtube Vimeo IGTV (Instagram) TikTok Twitch Facebook Video DailyMotion Wistia VideoPress TED Rutube Metacafe Coub Self Hosted Video Supported Audio Vendors: Spotify SoundCloud Mixcloud Beatport Self Hosted Audio 📈 SEO-Friendly Visual Portfolio plugin is built keeping SEO and performance in mind by defining proper structure and tags. Furthermore, due to optimization, it is lightweight and fast when it comes to page load. In addition our plugin add images in the sitemap for All In One SEO, Rank Math, and Yoast SEO plugins 🏳️ Multilingual & Translation Ready Visual Portfolio adds a new layer of compatibility for WPML. All blocks are compatible with it and ready for translation. https://www.visualportfolio.com/docs/multilingual/ 🛠 Built For Developers Visual Portfolio gives you a wide range of filters and actions to customize every part of your gallery. Also, it allows you to overwrite templates and change it in the theme directory. Moreover, you can customize separate portfolio lists using custom CSS and CSS Variables. 🔥 Visual Portfolio Pro The Visual Portfolio plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more features and enhanced performance! Learn more about Visual Portfolio Pro In order to maintain the free version of the plugin on an ongoing basis, and to provide quick and effective support for free, we offer a Pro version of the plugin. The Pro version allows you to: Video Items in Galleries and Post Grids Add video items directly into image galleries and post grids, with autoplay on open or play on hover. Gallery Format and Albums Display nested galleries and album-style content in image galleries, posts, and taxonomy grids. Taxonomies as Gallery Source Build galleries directly from taxonomy terms, not only from posts or images. Advanced Skin Settings Image Filters and Blend Mode – apply Instagram-like filters on images for Normal and Hover states Transformations – control the image transformation and border radius for Normal and Hover states Typography – control every text part of gallery captions and overlays Dimensions – controls paddings, margins and border radius of captions and overlays Stylish Interaction Effects Hover Tilt Effect Custom Hover Image – useful for animated GIFs Caption Move Skin Social Feeds Automatically fetch posts from your social networks to display in gallery on your site. Instagram Youtube Vimeo Unsplash X Flickr Dribbble Twitch RSS VK (Vkontakte) Theft Protection Watermarks – add your logo on top of your images to make them harder to steal Password Form – add a password to gallery blocks and send it to your clients Age Gate – Protect visitors from viewing adult content Photos Proofing Communicate with your clients in a modern way: Create Proofing Gallery – Easily create a gallery with photos, as you did before. Change styling, layout, etc. if you want. Send to a Client – Send photos collection to your client for proofing. The client will be able to leave comments on individual photos and communicate with you. Get Approval – Once the client approves the selection, you will be able to see the selected photos and copy filenames for post-production. Advanced Click Actions Manually configure how to open specific item types and filter clicking on title or on image. Responsive Breakpoints Settings Manually control the screen sizes, which used by the automatic responsive function to adapt your gallery layouts. AJAX Improvements Requests properly cached and links preloaded before you click. Advanced Query Settings Filter by Author, Date Range, Ignore Sticky Posts, exclude posts without Featured Image, and much more… Albums, Gallery Format, and Taxonomy Grids Build nested gallery structures, output gallery format content, and create visual taxonomy grids from the same workflow. See the Taxonomies demo. Quick View for Posts and Pages Display posts and pages in popup iframe, not only image and video galleries. It’s like works preview in Dribbble and Behance, but on your own site. Popup Gallery Deep Linking Makes URL automatically change when you open popup and you can easily link to a specific popup image. White Label Possibility to use your brand name and logo instead of our “Visual Portfolio”. Find much more portfolio and gallery features of Visual Portfolio Pro today! 🌟 More Features Lightboxes for Standard WordPress Images Image lightbox available for Visual Portfolio galleries as well as for standard WordPress images and galleries in your content. AJAX Loading and Pagination Every dynamic part of the Visual Portfolio plugin is using AJAX to update the gallery content in live mode. Organized galleries and portfolio lists will make your website look more professional, easy to navigate and result in a better user experience. We prepared 3 types of paginations for you: Infinite Scroll Load More button Paged pagination Filter Filter your gallery and portfolio by taxonomies (mostly categories and tags). Let users select a category and see the relevant items. Sort gallery items by date and title Users may sort gallery items by date and title. GIFs Support Our plugin automatically displays the animated GIFs in photo galleries. Also, you can show the animated GIFs on mouseover with the Pro plugin. Items Gutters Manually adjust the spacing between gallery images and projects. Images Lazy Loading Images lazy loading boost your page loading speed. You don’t need to worry about it, just use your beautiful images in the gallery, Visual Portfolio will do all the work for you. Images Aspect Ratio All built-in gallery layouts support custom image aspect ratio. You don’t need to crop the image manually. Images Focal Point Sometimes it is very important to specify the focal point so that the custom aspect ratio does not cut off important parts of the photos. For example, people’s faces on the portrait photos. Custom Links for Gallery Images By default, gallery images will contain the links to original images. You can manually set the custom links, for example, to a website or Youtube video. RTL Support Visual Portfolio natively supports RTL languages, proper styles loaded automatically, without user interaction. Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder support There is a helpful widget for Elementor and shortcode for WPBakery Page Builder, which will let you select one of the available Saved Layouts and output it. Responsive and Mobile Ready Visual Portfolio and Galleries are completely responsive and mobile ready – layouts automagically transforms to display perfectly on your screen size. Custom CSS Deeply customize the look of your gallery using custom CSS and CSS Variables. … And Much More All available features you can find on the plugin’s site and documentation.
