Live delivery & editor gate
Publish frames live, approve with the editor gate, set gallery visibility.
For events where people want their photos now — a race, a festival, a corporate keynote — SnapFlow can publish frames to the gallery the instant your camera uploads them. The editor gate lets you keep quality control while still going fast. Web
Live delivery
Switch on Live delivery on the album's Edit → Workflows page. New photos then appear in the public gallery as soon as they're ingested — no waiting for a finished set. The gallery shows a Live badge, and guests' browsers pull in new frames automatically (every few seconds), so a phone left open on the gallery keeps filling up on its own.
Pair this with FTP camera upload (see Getting photos in) and your shots go camera → gallery hands-free.
Editor gate
Going live doesn't have to mean publishing every frame. Switch on Editor gate (it appears under Live delivery) to hold raws back until someone approves them. While the gate is on, guests see a friendly placeholder — "Photos are being edited — N shots taken, check back in a few minutes" — instead of the raw feed.
You (or a teammate) then approve shots from the album's Editor queue in the dashboard. Only approved photos go public, so a fast feed never leaks a blink or a test frame. Approved shots — or re-edited uploads via Finals delivery — flow into the gallery according to the display phase below.
Let your editor upload directly
To let an editor push reviewed shots straight into the gallery, add an Editor Finals FTP credential (see Account, storage & billing). Lightroom or Capture One can then export finished JPEGs right into the album.
Gallery display phase
A live album holds two kinds of photo: raws (straight off the camera) and finals (your edits). The Gallery visibility selector on the Edit page decides which guests see:
- Auto (recommended) — SnapFlow does the right thing: while the editor gate is on it shows finals only; once you've delivered finals it shows those; otherwise it shows everything. Leave it here unless you have a reason not to.
- All photos — raws + finals — show both.
- Raws only — camera uploads — the unedited live feed.
- Finals only — edited photos — only your finished set.
This setting applies everywhere the gallery is served — the page, infinite scroll, embeds and ZIP downloads — so unapproved raws never slip out through a side door.
How the pieces fit
Live delivery = publish instantly. Editor gate = approve first. Gallery visibility = which version (raw vs final) the public sees. Turn on all three for the classic "fast but curated" event: raws flow in, you approve keepers, finals replace them as you edit.