Help Center

Complete reference manual
Step-by-step setup guide

• Galleries

  What is a Gallery?
  How should I organize my galleries?
  Gallery Presets
  Display Styles: controlling how images are displayed
  Moving a gallery
  Images order within a gallery
  Private galleries and free downloads authorizations
  Selling a gallery as individual images, or as a single product
  Hiding a gallery
  Allowing comments and ratings
  Creating a blog on PhotoDeck
  Galleries for private clients: events, portraits, weddings
  Galleries for professional clients
  

• Images and Videos

  What kind of files should I upload?
  Uploading video
  Uploading and synchronizing a folder
  Uploading and synchronizing via Lightroom
  Uploading via Photo Mechanic
  FTP upload
  About metadata and ingesting XMP/IPTC fields
  Metadata generation by artificial intelligence: how it works
  How does the search work?
  Customizing and changing watermarks
  

• Collections and Smart Collections

  What is the difference between collections and galleries?
  Using automation features
  What are smart collections for?
  

• Website basic customization

  Using my own domain: step-by-step guide
  Changing my website’s language(s)
  Defining my own Terms and Conditions
  E-commerce integration with an existing archive
  Changing your website’s frontpage
  What is a custom page?
  Using the free content editor
  What is a navigation menu?
  Adding a link, gallery or page in the menu navigation
  Creating a drop-down menu
  Custom slideshows as banners and page backgrounds
  How can I get my site (ranking well) in Google?
  SEO customization with PhotoDeck
  Google Search Console
  Cookies Consent: what option to use and how to customize
  Adding Google Analytics and other tracking scripts
  

• Customizing the website design

  Customizing my website design
  Using my own logo
  Choosing fonts
  Integrating a WordPress site
  

• Ecommerce

  What is a pricing profile?
  Automated print fulfillment via a partner lab
  Customizing a partner lab’s catalog
  Customizing Download / Royalty-Free price lists
  Customizing Rights-Managed profiles
  Selling a gallery as individual images, or as a single product
  How are digital images/videos delivered?
  Defining delivery format of images and videos
  Specifying delivered files’ names
  Showing products sizes that don’t match image ratios
  Prints fulfillment via your local lab
  Discount coupons
  What is a shipping profile?
  Shipping options for partner lab fulfillment
  How do custom shipping profiles work?
  Step-by-step shipping setup
  How do custom quotations work?
  Integrating with Card Payment Providers
  Accepting other forms of payment
  What happens when a client orders digital images or video clips?
  

• Working with your clients

  How do client accounts work?
  Galleries for private clients: events, portraits, weddings
  Galleries for professional clients
  Differentiating files by “PROOF” / “FINAL” state
  Using the mailing facility
  

• Selections / Lightboxes

  What is a selection (or lightbox)?
  Sending a selection to clients
  

• Website Activity tracking

  Understanding the Statistics
  Suspicious-looking activity
  

• Teams and multiple users

  Adding and managing team members
  Creating and using multiple media libraries
  Setting up a multi-photographer agency or a creative agency
  

• Account and billing

  Managing your PhotoDeck account and subscription
  What are microjobs?
  Tell-your-Friends referral program
  Adding and managing team members
  Adding, managing and deleting websites