What’s New.

We added Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to enhance the security of your Picflow account. With 2FA enabled, you'll need to provide a second form of verification, such as a code sent to your mobile device, in addition to your password when logging in. This extra layer of security helps protect your account from unauthorized access, ensuring that only you can manage your galleries and projects. Implementing 2FA is a simple yet effective way to safeguard your data and maintain the integrity of your creative work. Enable 2FA in your account settings for increased peace of mind.

Add your own Google Analytics property to track visitors to your galleries and profile. This feature allows you to gain valuable insights into how your audience interacts with your content, including visitor numbers, behavior patterns, and engagement levels. Whether you want to measure the success of a particular gallery or understand overall traffic trends, this integration provides the tools you need to monitor and analyze your audience effectively.

When adding a comment, you can now position it directly at any place on the asset. This feature provides greater clarity and helps avoid confusion when describing changes or giving feedback. By allowing precise placement of comments, you can ensure that your notes and suggestions are easily understood and accurately applied. This enhancement improves communication and collaboration, simplifying providing specific and actionable feedback on creatives. Enjoy a more intuitive and efficient way to manage comments and revisions.

We've optimized our Gallery Embed feature by transitioning from iFrames to native HTML. This update enhances overall loading time, improves security, and introduces additional embed-features. You can now customize the lightbox color, adjust paddings, and use transparent backgrounds. These improvements offer greater flexibility and control over the appearance and performance of embedded galleries, ensuring a smoother and more secure integration with your website. Enhance your viewer's experience with faster load times and more customization options.

Every gallery section can now have its own background color, providing greater flexibility in designing your gallery. This feature allows you to differentiate sections visually, enhancing the overall aesthetic and organization of your gallery. Additionally, each section can have an attached title, simplifying the management and navigation of sections when moving them around. These updates make it easier to create visually distinct and well-organized galleries, improving both the creator's workflow and the viewer's experience. Customize your gallery sections to better reflect your style and structure your content effectively.

You can now easily toggle filenames on or off directly from the gallery section controls. This feature helps clients and collaborators identify assets more efficiently, improving overall communication and workflow. Whether you need to quickly find a specific file or prefer a cleaner gallery view, this update provides the flexibility to customize your gallery display to suit your needs. Enjoy a more streamlined and informative gallery view with this latest enhancement!

You can now upload assets directly from your preferred cloud provider with support for Dropbox and Google Drive. This feature allows you to choose files from your cloud storage and upload them seamlessly to Picflow. It streamlines the process of adding content, making it easier and faster to manage your projects. Whether you're working with large files or need to access your assets from multiple locations, this integration enhances your workflow by providing a convenient way to transfer files directly from the cloud. Save time and improve efficiency by leveraging this new upload option.

Protect your images with the new AI-Resistant Watermarking feature. As AI-powered watermark removal tools become more advanced, this option provides an extra layer of security by using a specially designed pattern that is difficult for AI to remove. This ensures that your watermarks remain intact, safeguarding your work against unauthorized use. This feature is particularly valuable for photographers and creatives who want to maintain control over their digital assets and prevent their images from being misused or uncredited. Enhance the protection of your visual content with this robust watermarking solution.

Ensure the security of your files with our new Antivirus Scanner. This feature automatically checks all uploaded files for viruses, helping to protect the Picflow platform from distributing malware. By implementing this scanning process, we provide an additional layer of security, safeguarding both your and your client's systems. This proactive measure enhances the overall integrity of the platform, ensuring that all shared and stored files are free from harmful software. Enjoy peace of mind knowing that your work environment remains secure and trustworthy.

Access Picflow easily with your Apple ID using the new Apple Social Login feature. This additional login method supports Apple's Private Relay, ensuring enhanced privacy for users. By using your Apple ID, you can streamline the login process, reducing the need to remember additional passwords. This feature not only simplifies access but also aligns with Apple's commitment to user privacy, providing a secure and convenient way to log in. Ideal for users who prefer integrated solutions within the Apple ecosystem, this update enhances both security and usability.

Enhance your commenting experience with the new Comment Threads feature. You, your team, and your clients can now reply to existing comments in organized threads. This addition allows for more structured and clear discussions around specific feedback points. Threads can be resolved, marking them as complete, which helps keep the workflow clean and focused. This update is invaluable for decluttering the comment section, making it easier to track and manage conversations, ensuring that all feedback is addressed systematically and efficiently.

When sharing a folder, you can now set the default sorting method for the galleries it contains. This feature allows you to define the order in which visitors see the galleries, providing a more organized and intuitive viewing experience. Whether you want to sort by date, name, or custom criteria, the chosen sorting method ensures that your galleries are presented in a way that best suits your needs. This enhancement helps streamline navigation and improves the overall user experience for clients and collaborators accessing your shared folders.

Ensure that only approved assets can be downloaded with the "Approved Downloads Only" feature. Once a client has finished approving assets, you can disable the asset status feature to prevent further approvals and simultaneously enable this download restriction. This feature provides an extra layer of control, ensuring that only assets that meet your standards are accessible for download. It streamlines the workflow by allowing clients to focus on the approval process first, then securely download the approved content. This is particularly useful for maintaining quality and consistency in final deliverables.

Enable the "Approve-Only" option for a streamlined approval process, hiding all other asset statuses. This feature provides clients with a one-click approval system, simplifying their experience. "Approve-Only" is also compatible with the Approval Limit feature, allowing you to set limits on the number of approvals while maintaining a straightforward interface. This enhancement is ideal for projects requiring quick and easy client feedback, ensuring an efficient and hassle-free approval process.

Galleries now have statuses to better indicate their progress: "Needs Review," "In Progress," and "Approved." These statuses provide a clear overview of the overall project status, helping you and your clients understand where each gallery stands in the review process. Whether a gallery requires feedback, is being worked on, or is fully approved, these status labels enhance communication and project management. This feature ensures that everyone involved is kept up-to-date, making the workflow more transparent and efficient.

Enhance your asset management with the new status options: "In Progress" and "Needs Review," in addition to "Approve" and "Rejected." These additional statuses provide better control over the state of each asset and improve collaboration by clearly indicating their current stage. Whether an asset is still being worked on, requires further feedback, or is ready for approval, these new options allow for more precise tracking and communication. This feature helps streamline the review process, ensuring that all team members are on the same page and that assets move through the workflow efficiently.

Enable the Approval Limit option to control how many assets a client or collaborator can approve. This feature allows you to set a specific number of approvals, which can be easily enabled and configured. Additionally, there is a "soft-limit" option that permits clients to exceed the set limit while keeping them informed of their current count. This provides a clear indication of their progress and helps manage expectations. The soft limit feature is also an excellent up-sell opportunity, encouraging clients to explore additional approvals. This tool enhances project management by providing structured feedback limits while maintaining flexibility and transparency.

Add tags to your creatives for improved organization and collaboration. Tags are available to the entire team, making it easy to categorize and find assets quickly. You can also choose a color for each tag to enhance visibility and highlight important assets effectively. This feature helps streamline your workflow, ensuring that all team members can easily access and identify relevant files. Perfect for large projects and teams, asset tags simplify asset management and enhance productivity by providing a clear and organized system for your creative work.

Upload a custom video preview image, also known as a poster or thumbnail, to control the appearance of videos in your gallery. This allows you to select a specific image that best represents your video content, ensuring that your gallery maintains a polished and professional look. By choosing a custom thumbnail, you can provide a clear and attractive preview that entices viewers to engage with your video. This enhancement offers greater flexibility in how your video content is presented, helping you to maintain consistent branding and visual appeal across all your galleries.

Elevate your gallery presentations by using a video as the cover. This feature allows you to replace static cover images with engaging videos, creating a more immersive and captivating experience for your audience. Whether you want to highlight a project with a brief teaser, showcase behind-the-scenes footage, or simply add motion to your gallery's introduction, cover videos provide an impactful way to grab viewers' attention.

Control the positioning and alignment of cover text with this new feature. You can now choose exactly where the text appears on your gallery cover, allowing for greater customization and creative expression. Whether you prefer the text to be centered, aligned to the left, right, top, or bottom, you have the flexibility to make your gallery covers look exactly how you envision. This enhancement provides an additional layer of personalization, ensuring that your galleries not only showcase your work effectively but also align with your brand aesthetics. Perfect for creating a professional and visually appealing presentation for your audience.

Organize your galleries more efficiently with the new internal gallery name feature. Previously, the cover title served as the gallery name, but now you can assign distinct internal names to your galleries. This enhancement offers greater flexibility, allowing you to use project codes or internal identifiers for better organization and management. It helps in distinguishing between galleries more effectively, especially in larger projects with multiple galleries. Internal names are visible only to you and your team, ensuring that your public-facing titles remain clean and professional while your internal workflow benefits from improved structure and clarity.

Start Playing—You can now upload, stream, and collaborate seamlessly on videos with Picflow. Supporting all modern codecs, this feature allows you to work with video files up to 4K and HDR quality. This enhancement ensures that your video content maintains the highest standards of resolution and color accuracy, making it ideal for professional projects. Collaborate with your team or clients by sharing and reviewing video content directly within the platform, streamlining your workflow and enhancing the overall user experience. Whether you're working on promotional videos, film projects, or any other video content, this update provides the tools you need for efficient and effective collaboration.

Enterprise customers can now group multiple users together, making managing access and permissions on projects easier. User groups can be added just like individual collaborators, with options for review, view-only, and edit access. This feature streamlines the process of assigning permissions, especially for large teams, and ensures consistent access control across all projects. When users are added or removed from groups, changes are automatically applied to all relevant galleries, saving time and enhancing security. This update simplifies team management, providing a more efficient and secure way to collaborate on Picflow.

Enhance your gallery presentation with expanded styling options. In addition to various layouts and sections, you can now choose a background color for your gallery and select from dozens of different fonts for titles and paragraphs. Customize font colors to match your brand or aesthetic preferences, creating a cohesive and visually appealing experience for your audience. These new styling capabilities provide greater flexibility and control over the appearance of your galleries, ensuring that your content stands out and engages viewers. Perfect for photographers and creatives looking to add a personalized touch to their galleries.

Upload photos and videos directly from Lightroom Classic to Picflow with the new Lightroom Plugin. This integration allows you to manage your media within Lightroom and seamlessly publish updates to Picflow. Keep your work in sync without the need for manual uploads or additional steps. The plugin simplifies the workflow for photographers and creatives, enabling efficient organization and sharing of images. Whether you are editing, categorizing, or updating your media, you can now ensure that all changes are reflected in your Picflow galleries instantly. This feature enhances productivity and ensures a smooth, integrated experience between Lightroom and Picflow.

Enhance your workflow with our new Chrome extension. You can now browse the web and push images directly to a Picflow gallery with just a few clicks. This tool is perfect for creating mood boards, gathering inspiration, or collecting reference materials quickly and efficiently. As you explore various websites, the extension allows you to save images seamlessly, eliminating the need for manual downloads and uploads. This integration streamlines the process of curating content and ensures that all your visual references are organized in one place, ready for collaboration and review.

Share multiple galleries at once by copying and sharing a folder link. This feature is ideal for clients who need access to several galleries simultaneously, simplifying the process of gallery distribution. Instead of sending individual links for each gallery, you can now organize your galleries into folders and provide a single link for easy access. This streamlines communication and enhances the user experience by offering a centralized location for all related galleries. Perfect for event photographers, project managers, or anyone who needs to share a large collection of images efficiently.

Enable clients or visitors to leave feedback and comments anonymously without needing to provide a name or email. This feature lowers the barrier to participation and enhances privacy, making it easier for users to share their thoughts. Each reviewer is assigned a random name per browser session, allowing you to distinguish between different reviewers while maintaining their anonymity. This functionality encourages more open and honest feedback, as users can comment without fear of being identified. It's particularly useful for sensitive projects or for clients who prefer to remain private, helping to foster a more inclusive and responsive feedback environment.

Easily copy existing assets within the same gallery or to another gallery. This feature allows you to duplicate images without the need to re-upload or manually transfer them, streamlining your workflow. Whether you need to organize images across multiple galleries or simply want to create backups, the Copy Images functionality provides a convenient and efficient solution. This enhancement saves time and ensures consistency in your image management, making it easier to handle large volumes of photos and maintain organized galleries.

Share gallery links easily with a QR code. This feature is perfect for weddings, photo booths, or any event where you want guests to quickly access the gallery. By generating a QR code for your gallery, you can provide a seamless and convenient way for people to view and download photos. Simply display the QR code at your event, and attendees can scan it with their smartphones to be instantly directed to your Picflow gallery. This eliminates the need for typing long URLs and enhances the overall guest experience by making your photos easily accessible.

Create and customize text or image watermarks for your photos with Picflow. You can choose fonts, adjust size, set opacity, and align your watermarks to suit your needs. Additionally, it’s possible to add multiple watermarks and apply them individually to different galleries. This feature provides flexibility and control over your images, helping to protect your work and maintain your brand’s identity. Watermarking ensures that your images are secure and professionally presented, whether you're sharing them with clients or displaying them online.

Picflow now supports the native Apple HEIC format, allowing users to upload photos taken with iPhones directly to the platform. This enhancement ensures seamless integration with the most widely used smartphone camera, making it easier for photographers and creative professionals to manage their images. The HEIC format offers superior compression and quality compared to traditional JPEG files, saving storage space while maintaining high-resolution image quality. This update simplifies the workflow for users by eliminating the need for format conversion before uploading, ensuring that your images retain their original quality and metadata. Enjoy a more efficient and streamlined experience with Picflow’s expanded file format compatibility.

Streamline your workflow with the Duplicate Gallery feature. With a single click, you can duplicate an existing gallery along with all its content. This is particularly useful when you need to create similar galleries for different clients or projects without starting from scratch. Save time and maintain consistency by reusing gallery settings, layouts, and assets. Whether you're managing multiple versions of a project or simply want to replicate a successful gallery setup, the Duplicate Gallery feature makes it easy and efficient to duplicate your work, ensuring you can focus more on creativity and less on repetitive tasks.

Easily manage and access all content shared with you using the Shared With Me feature. This feature consolidates all galleries and files that have been shared with you across multiple workspaces into one convenient location. No more searching through different workspaces to find specific projects; everything shared with you is now organized in a single, easy-to-navigate section. This improves efficiency and helps you stay on top of collaborative efforts, ensuring that you can quickly find and work on shared content without hassle. Perfect for professionals working across various teams and projects, Shared With Me streamlines your workflow and enhances collaboration.

Maintain confidentiality with the Private Galleries feature. In addition to edit and view-only permissions for your team, you can now completely hide galleries from certain team members. This allows you to work privately or with specific collaborators without exposing the content to the entire team. Whether you're working on sensitive projects or need to manage access more selectively, Private Galleries provide the flexibility to control who sees what. This feature ensures you can maintain privacy and focus on your work with trusted collaborators, enhancing security and control over your creative projects.

Enhance your gallery management with the new Collaborators feature. Beyond public link access, you can now specifically add members to your galleries, providing more granular control over permissions. Assign different roles, such as edit and review, to ensure the right level of access for each collaborator. For private projects, you can disable public link access entirely, allowing only invited members to view your content. Adding collaborators is free, and each collaborator needs a Picflow account, which strengthens security. This feature is perfect for maintaining control over who can access and interact with your galleries, ensuring your projects remain secure and well-organized.

Easily manage your high-quality photos with the new Upload RAW Images feature. Picflow now supports uploading RAW files from all major camera brands and formats, including DNG, NEF, CR2, CR3, and more. This enhancement allows photographers to maintain the highest level of image quality, providing greater flexibility for editing and post-processing. By accommodating RAW files, Picflow ensures that your original, uncompressed images are preserved and accessible, making it an ideal solution for professional photographers who require uncompromised detail and quality in their workflows. Enjoy seamless integration of RAW images into your galleries, keeping your creative process efficient and organized.

In addition to an image title, you can now add a description to each of your images. This is perfect for providing additional details or context that can help clients and collaborators understand the content better. If your image metadata already includes a caption or description, it will automatically be displayed in Picflow, saving you time and effort. Whether you want to explain the subject, specify editing details, or provide background information, the Image Description feature makes it easier to communicate important information about your images directly within your galleries.

Enhance your gallery management with Custom Presets. In addition to setting default gallery settings, you can now create multiple presets tailored to different project types. This feature is particularly useful if you frequently apply the same settings to specific kinds of projects. Simply choose a preset when creating a new gallery or switch presets on existing galleries to save time and maintain consistency. Whether you have varying review and download options for different clients or projects, Custom Presets streamline the setup process, ensuring each gallery is configured perfectly with minimal effort. This flexibility improves efficiency and allows you to focus more on your creative work.

Simplify your gallery creation with Default Settings. Picflow offers numerous options for review and download settings on a per-project basis, ensuring each gallery meets your specific needs. If you frequently use the same settings, you can now define your preferred defaults. These default settings will be automatically applied every time you create a new gallery, saving you time and ensuring consistency across your projects. Whether it's review permissions, download options, or other preferences, setting your defaults streamlines your workflow and reduces repetitive configuration. This feature enhances efficiency, allowing you to focus more on your creative work and less on setup.

Showcase your work with the new Public Profile feature. You can now make select galleries publicly available on your Picflow Profile. This profile is a straightforward page where all galleries marked “Show on Profile” are displayed, creating a simple and elegant portfolio. Perfect for photographers, designers, and other creative professionals, the Public Profile feature allows you to share your work with a wider audience without needing a separate website. This feature is ideal for those who want a quick and easy way to present their projects. Stay tuned for additional customization options to enhance your profile further.

Invite colleagues to your Picflow workspace and collaborate more effectively. With Picflow Teams, you can create galleries together, share feedback, and monitor client activity all in one place. This feature is designed to enhance collaboration within creative teams, making it easier to work together on projects. Share ideas, make annotations, and keep track of progress with your entire team, ensuring everyone stays on the same page.

Whether you're working on photography, design, or marketing projects, Picflow Teams provides a centralized hub for all your collaborative efforts, improving efficiency and creativity in your workflow.

Enhance your professional image with the Custom Domain feature. Connect your own domain or sub-domain to Picflow, providing a fully branded experience for your clients and collaborators. Every gallery link will now reflect your custom domain, such as "gallery.yourname.com/gallery-id" instead of the default "username.picflow.com/gallery-id". This not only reinforces your brand identity but also offers a more polished and memorable presentation for your galleries. Perfect for maintaining a consistent brand image across all your online interactions, the Custom Domain feature ensures your Picflow galleries seamlessly integrate with your existing online presence.

Keep your Picflow dashboard tidy with the new Folders feature. Now, you can organize your galleries using folders and subfolders, making it easier to manage and navigate your projects. This feature helps you maintain a clean and structured account, allowing you to categorize galleries by client, project, or any other criteria that suits your workflow. By grouping related galleries together, you can quickly find and access the content you need, enhancing your overall efficiency. Say goodbye to clutter and enjoy a more organized and streamlined experience with Picflow Folders.

Simplify your access to Picflow with Account Linking. This feature allows you to log in using either a social login or an email and password. By linking these accounts together, you can choose your preferred login method regardless of your initial signup method. This provides greater flexibility and convenience, ensuring you can always access your account with ease. Whether you prefer using Google, Facebook, or traditional email login, Account Linking keeps your access options open and seamless. Enhance your Picflow experience by making logins more straightforward and tailored to your preferences.

Building on our existing Version Control, this feature allows you to compare any two versions of an image side by side. Easily identify differences, track changes, and make more informed decisions during revisions and retouching. Version Comparison is perfect for detailed analysis, helping you to ensure each iteration meets your standards and project requirements. This tool streamlines your workflow by providing a clear visual comparison, making it easier to refine your work and communicate adjustments with your team or clients. Improve your creative process with precise and efficient version comparisons.

Personalize your workflow with Custom Labels. You can now rename our five color labels (Blue, Orange, Green, Purple, and Red) to suit your categorization needs better. This feature allows you to create a labeling system that aligns with your specific project requirements and workflow. Whether you’re organizing images by project phase, client, or any other criteria, Custom Labels provide a flexible way to keep your galleries orderly and intuitive. Enhance your project management by tailoring labels to your preferences, making it easier to identify and sort images quickly and efficiently. This customization option simplifies organization and boosts productivity.

Manage your creative process more effectively with the new Version Control feature. This allows you to upload multiple versions or revisions of an image while maintaining the complete version history. Track the evolution of your work, see changes made during revisions, and easily compare different iterations. Ideal for detailed retouching and iterative design, this feature ensures you never lose sight of previous edits and can revert to earlier versions if needed. Version Control enhances your workflow by clearly recording all modifications, making collaboration and feedback more straightforward and organized.

Easily update your galleries with the new Replace Image feature. Now, you can replace an existing image without the need to delete it and upload a new one. This ensures that all existing comments, feedback, and annotations remain intact, saving you time and preserving valuable client interactions. Whether you're making small adjustments or significant revisions, this feature streamlines your workflow by maintaining the continuity of your project's feedback history. Ideal for iterative design processes, the Replace Image functionality keeps your galleries up-to-date while retaining all important collaborative input, enhancing both efficiency and user experience.

Enhance your gallery presentation with customizable links. Instead of using the default gallery ID format (username.picflow.com/gallery-id), you can now create personalized URLs for your galleries. This feature allows you to choose a custom, memorable link that is easier to share and looks more professional to end users. Customizing your gallery link not only improves user experience but also aligns better with your branding. Whether you're sharing portfolios, project updates, or client presentations, a custom URL adds a touch of personalization and professionalism, making your galleries stand out.