How to Save Your Photos

(So You Don’t Lose Them)

Once you receive your gallery, download your images right away—don’t wait. While I do keep galleries online for a set period, it’s your responsibility to download and back them up.

Here’s how to keep your images safe:

1. Use a Computer (Seriously).

Download your full gallery to a desktop or laptop. Phones are great for quick viewing and sharing, but they’re not reliable for long-term storage or full-resolution files. Plus, most phones will compress your images—meaning they won’t be print quality.

I do offer a "web size" download which is a smaller file size that is perfect for just social sharing or keeping on your phone.

Never use screenshots for printing - they will be low quality and you will be disappointed (that goes for social sharing too sometimes).

2. Back Them Up Twice.

Save the photos in at least two places:

One on your hard drive or desktop;

One on an external hard drive or cloud service

(like Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, or Amazon Photos).

3. Don’t Rely on the Gallery Link Forever.

Your gallery will expire in 90 days, and I can’t guarantee storage past that. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.

I charge for re-creating your gallery again once it'd deleted. Here's why:  it takes me time to locate the photos (usually on an old hard drive of mine), create a new album, upload the photos to the album and send it along again.

4. Bonus Tip: Print Something!

Digital images are amazing, but prints are what keep your memories alive for generations. I truly believe that if you invested in a professional photo session, you should be printing your photos. Your gallery has a direct shop link to a professional print service which is the highest quality you can get.  

Forget prints at your local drugstore, wholesale club or department store.  Sorry to say but- they are trash.

Whether it's a framed photo, album, or even a few loose prints—get them off the screen.

Let me know if you need help designing an album from your gallery!