Digital Album Studio › Album proofing
Album proofing is how your client checks the album before it goes to print. With Digital Album Studio you send one link: your client pages through the wedding album like a real book on any phone, tablet or computer, pins comments on the photos and approves with one tap. No app, no login, no PDFs.
The album opens closed, as a 3D book with its real cover: the material, the photo or panel on the front, the spine. One tap opens it and the pages turn like paper, with sound. On a phone held upright your client sees one page at a time, large enough to judge every photo; turned sideways, the full spread. On a tablet or computer it is the whole book. “All pages” shows every spread at a glance, and a page number takes them straight there.
Your client taps the exact spot they mean and writes a comment: “a colour photo here”, “can we swap these two?”. A comment can belong to one photo or to the whole page. In the app you see each comment next to the photo it is about, numbered, with the client’s name, the time and the version, and you mark it done when it is fixed. No more guessing which “the third photo on page 12” they meant.
Made the changes? Press Upload and the new version appears on the same link, so your client never has to look for a new email. They always see only the latest version; you keep every earlier one, can preview it as it was and bring the album back to it if needed. The comments and the history stay with the album.
When the album is right, your client presses “Approve for print”; if not, “Request changes”, with a note. You get an email with a summary of the comments per spread, and the app shows the status of every album at a glance: waiting for the client, changes requested, approved. You also see who opened the album and when, so you know whether it has been seen before you chase anyone.
Proofing is one step of a single workflow. You deliver the photos in a client gallery, your client picks their favourites, that collection becomes a new album in one click, you design it, your client approves it online, and you export print-ready files to your lab’s specifications. Everything happens in one app, so nothing is copied by hand between services.
The usual way is a PDF or a folder of JPGs by email, and a reply like “page 7, the second one, lighter?”. Comments get lost between messages, the couple looks at an old file, and you retype every change into a list. With online album proofing every comment sits on the photo it is about, every version is on the same link, and the approval is recorded with a name and a time.
Every album has its own private link, and you can add a PIN. If you create a new link or PIN, the old one stops working at once. Your original photos stay on your computer: only viewing copies go online, on servers in the European Union. Search engines never see your clients’ albums.
The proofing page opens in your client’s language: English, Greek, German, Italian, French or Spanish. Short instructions appear under the album the first time, so even a client who has never seen an online album knows what to do.
Press Upload in the app. The whole album goes online as version 1, with an optional PIN.
Copy the link and send it to your client by email, message or chat.
They page through the album and pin comments on the photos. You see them in the app and get an email.
You upload the changes as a new version on the same link, until your client presses “Approve for print”.
Your clients review the album on any phone: the short video on our YouTube channel.
▶ Watch on YouTubeAlbum proofing is the step where your client reviews the designed album, asks for changes and approves it before printing. Online proofing does this on a link instead of by email or in person.
You send them a link. They page through the album, leave comments on the photos if they want changes, and press “Approve for print” when it is right.
No. The album opens in the browser of any phone, tablet or computer. You can add a PIN if you want.
Yes. They tap the photo and the comment stays pinned to it; they can also comment on a whole page.
As many as you need. Each new version goes up on the same link and your client always sees the latest.
Proofing works with albums designed in Digital Album Studio. If you prefer not to design at all, our album design service designs the album and sends it to your client for approval under your studio’s name.
Founding members use Digital Album Studio free until the January 2027 launch.
No time to design? We design it for you