PhotoShelter is an outstanding online photo archive management tool that allows you to deliver your images via secure web galleries, pitch stories to publications by branded html emails and add both e-commerce enabled RM licensing and print ordering to your website.
I use PhotoShelter myself for my own photography business and I consider them a must-have for all professional and advanced amateur photographers.
The good news is that the Standard account – the plan that fits most photographers’ needs – costs only $329 a year. Enter code DA6BR5BT44 when you sign up to slice up to $30 off the cost of new accounts. Absolutely no strings attached.
PHOTOSHELTER CUSTOMIZATION
PhotoShelter offers a bunch of templates that include all the pages a full photography website needs in a range of designs. You can literally set up a new website in a few minutes.
These templates look very good and are feature-rich but you will probably want to tweak a few things here and there to add a personal touch or fix something that you would like to see work differently.
More ambitious photographers will want to customize their PhotoShelter pages in depth. That allows you to either build an entirely unique looking website or to seamless integrate your PhotoShelter pages to the look and feel of your portfolio website if you have one. It requires some basic knowledge of coding (css & html) and an understanding of the way the PhotoShelter works but it isn’t rocket science. If you have the time and a taste for coding, go for it.
Contact me with any questions you have about getting your PhotoShelter pages look and work just right.
I'm an Englishman in New York. After growing up in France, studying in England and working in a bunch of developing countries, I moved to New York City in 2004.