Proofing & client delivery

Proofing is how a client picks their favourites before you spend hours editing. Turn it on and your gallery becomes interactive: guests heart the shots they want, you get the selection back as a clean list, and you deliver the finished, edited set separately. Web

Turn on proofing

On the album's Edit → Workflows page switch on Client proofing. Pro Optionally also switch on Watermarked preview so clients select from watermarked thumbnails and never receive full-res files until you deliver them.

What the client does

With proofing on, the public gallery shows a banner — "Tap the heart on any photo to select your favourites" — and a heart on every photo. Tapping fills the heart; a floating bar at the bottom counts "N photos selected".

When they're happy they tap Submit selection, enter their name and email, and their picks are sent to you. The email lets you reply with the finished gallery.

Getting the selection back

On the album in your dashboard, open View proofing. Selections are grouped by visitor (so a couple choosing together stay separate), and you can export:

• Download ZIP — the original files the client picked, bundled as <album>-selections.zip, ready to pull straight into Lightroom or Capture One.
• Export CSV — the selection as a spreadsheet (filenames + who chose them), for tracking or invoicing.

Each visitor also has their own ZIP link, so you can pull just one person's picks.

Finals delivery

Proofing gives you the picks; finals delivery is how you hand back the edits. Switch on Finals delivery on the Edit page. Studio You then upload your edited JPEGs back to SnapFlow — including straight from Lightroom or Capture One via a dedicated Editor Finals FTP credential (see Account, storage & billing for credentials).

Finals are stored separately from the camera raws and can replace them in the gallery, so clients see your polished set rather than the unedited feed. Exactly what shows when is controlled by the gallery display phase — covered in Live delivery & editor gate.

Sneak peek

Want to tease a few hero shots while the full gallery stays private? Switch on Sneak peek Pro and mark individual photos as a sneak peek. The public gallery then shows only those photos — with a "a curated preview, the full gallery arrives soon" banner — until you open the rest.