Build a Smarter Photography Website
with PhotoShelter
Online photography portfolios with sales and marketing tools built-in
It all begins with a better photography website
We believe that serious photographers should have an easy and powerful way to display, distribute, and sell their work online. With PhotoShelter, you get a customizable online portfolio with a searchable archive, marketing tools, and an online storefront all-in-one.
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Websites that let your photos
do the talking
Every year we ask over 1,000 photo editors, image buyers, and clients what they want in photographer websites and design our online portfolios accordingly. PhotoShelter portfolios provide your website visitors with a fast and intuitive way to see your best work.
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Instant website templates
Launch your website in minutes with no coding necessary. Choose from 10 buyer-friendly photography website templates with thousands of layout options. See examples »
Completely custom designs
Create a custom photography website with complete control over the HTML and CSS. Use our themes as a starting point, match the design of an existing website, or make something entirely unique. See examples »
Integrate with a WordPress blog
Add our shopping cart and marketing tools to your blog using 8 different Wordpress themes from Graph Paper Press, the leader in Wordpress themes for photographers. Easily add photos and slideshows to your blog with the PhotoShelter Wordpress plugin. See examples »
Workflows for the way
you actually work
In 2005, PhotoShelter was founded by professional news and sports photographers who needed a better way to publish and distribute their work. Today, over 70,000 photographers from every specialty rely on PhotoShelter workflows to power their businesses online.
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Upload almost anything
from almost anywhere
Choose any of 7 different upload methods to fit your workflow. Send photos directly from Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, and Aperture, or FTP images directly into your account. You can even send us a hard drive. We support RAW, TIF, JPG, and even PSD, with no limit on file size.
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Adopt a client-centered approach
With PhotoShelter, you decide how your images are displayed and what your visitors can do with them. Sell stock photos via public galleries, send wedding clients proofs with password protected collections, or give commercial clients access to your high resolution files with invite-only access.
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Build a following with easy social media tools
PhotoShelter websites are plugged into all of the major social networks. Share entire photo galleries on Twitter or Facebook without leaving your account, and let your website visitors tweet, like, and promote your images on Google+ and LinkedIn. Learn more »
Give your customers the industry's best e-commerce experience
The PhotoShelter shopping cart, which comes standard with all PhotoShelter websites, is the result of months of research and user testing around the most profitable e-commerce workflows on the web. The result is a frictionless shopping experience that will keep your clients coming back for more.
Sell almost anything, almost anywhere
Sell prints, products, packages, personal-use downloads, royalty-free or rights-managed stock, or your own services directly from your website. Fulfill orders automatically with our 4 integrated pro labs, choose from 170+ ultra high-end vendors in our worldwide Print Vendor Network, or self-fulfill orders to give your clients a truly white glove experience. Learn more »
You decide how to get paid
With PhotoShelter, you're the merchant of record on every sale - so your customers stay your customers. We give you 4 different ways to securely collect the money. Choose from the most trusted payment gateways including: PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net and Netbilling. Learn more »
It's your money. Stop waiting for it
Photographers are typically cash flow sensitive so it doesn't make sense to use a hosting service with payment thresholds and 30-day waiting periods. PhotoShelter is different - you collect the money instantly at the point of sale for every transaction. Learn more »
PhotoShelter Print Vendor Network
PhotoShelter's Print Vendor Network connects photographers with over 170 high-end print partners worldwide. Set up self-fulfilled products and send the order to your favorite print vendor to print and ship for you. Don't see your go-to vendor listed? Invite them! Learn more »
Built-in help with pricing
Pricing rights-managed and royalty-free stock photography is easy with FotoQuote, the industry standard pricing calculator, built directly into your PhotoShelter shopping cart. Need to price a full-page placement in a South African consumer magazine? No problem. Learn more »
Exclusive e-commerce tools
We're constantly dreaming up tools that will help you do more business with clients. For example, our Instant Sale feature allows you to negotiate a sale offline and then to select the single image from your archive, affix a license and price, collect payment online, and have an automated delivery to the client. Learn more »
Everything's easier with a little help from your friends
We understand the needs of serious photographers because we are serious photographers. Every day, each member of our team endeavors to make our industry a little better; we take pictures, we take phone calls, we listen to our community, we solve problems, we innovate, we publish the coolest free business guides, and we find the most inspiring photos being taken today and shout about them to anyone who will listen.
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A real, human client services team
Our client servies team is friendly, extremely knowledgable, and works right here in our NYC office. They’re all trained product experts with photography backgrounds, and they can help you get the most from your account whether you're just starting out or have relied on PhotoShelter for years. Learn more »
Free phone and email support
We can answer any question by phone or email. At a time when most companies have cut back live phone support, we’re still growing our support team to ensure that we can help you when you need it. Contact us at 212-206-0808 or email support@photoshelter.com. Learn more »
Extensive help documentation
Our online help section contains comprehensive written tutorials on every one of our hundreds of features and tools.
Live monthly webinars
Attend our monthly webinar series. You'll learn how to get the most from your PhotoShelter account and you'll improve your business with advice from top photo editors, art buyers, and expert consultants. Learn more »
Hours of educational videos
Our help section and Vimeo pages include hours of educational videos with tutorials on everything from how to configure your website, to image pricing and how to light a celebrity portrait.
Bulletproof photo hosting
Over 70,000 photographers, photo agencies, and institutions rely on PhotoShelter to display, sell, and safeguard millions of images. We keep multiple copies of your files in multiple geographic locations to ensure that your photos are secure and accessible to your and your clients 24/7. Learn more »
Not just Search Engine Optimized, we're Search Engine Obsessed
We believe that getting top search engine results is the best way to promote a photography website, attract new visitors, sell more photos, and book new assignments. PhotoShelter websites are built to get your photos the search exposure they deserve.
Try PhotoShelter free for 14 daysThe industry's most powerful SEO
It's no wonder that Digital Photo Pro Magazine said "PhotoShelter's advanced features and SEO settings are the best we found." With PhotoShelter, you have control over 30 of the most important SEO factors for your website. Learn more »
The research and tools to back it up
We literally wrote the book on SEO for photography websites. Since the first edition of our SEO Cookbook in 2008, we've lead the industy in SEO research for photographers. In addition, our members have access to the SEO Grader, an exclusive tool that analyses their websites and suggests SEO improvements. Learn more »
Integrated with Google
All PhotoShelter websites have turn-key support for Google Analytics, the most powerful (and free) website analysis tool available. We also automatically generate and submit an optimized sitemap of your website to Google so they know exactly where to find your content. Learn more »
We couldn't say it better
Washington DC-based photographer Mark Finkenstaedt uses PhotoShelter to power his website, which not only gives him a great way to display his images, but provides him with a unique set of tools to distribute high resolution files, enhance his SEO, and sell directly to his customers.
Try PhotoShelter free for 14 daysJoin a community of over 70,000 amazing photographers
We're thankful to have one of the coolest communities in the industry. Serious photographers working in every specialty rely on PhotoShelter power their businesses online. Here are a few success stories from our talented members:
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| › Customizable website themes | 1 | 10 | 10 |
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| › Sell prints, products, stock and downloads | Free Set-Up | Free Set-Up | Free Set-Up |
| › E-commerce fee (if you sell photos) | 10% | 9% | 8% |
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| › Secure storage (add more anytime) | 10GB | 60GB | 1TB (1000GB) |
| › Monthly Pricing | $9.99/month | $29.99/month | $49.99/month |
| › Annual Pricing (save 8%) | $109.00/year | $329.00/year | $549.99/year |
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