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We're always hard at work on evolving PhotoShelter to make your lives easier, and we couldn't do it without your feedback. Don't be shy - drop us a line with any comments or suggestions on what you'd like to see, and come back often to check out PhotoShelter's newest additions!

New on August 11, 2011

  • Batch replace images in print orders
    Save time after a sale and upload full-res or retouched files in batch. Try it on a pending order
  • Cleaner shopping cart statistics
    Now, all carts (not just anonymous ones) older than 60 days are hidden from your stats. View your open carts
  • Manually sort self-fulfilled prints
    Sequence your custom print options in any order you'd like! Edit your sort
  • Improved thumbnail hover preview
    Tighter security and cleaner load. Check it out
  • More website improvements
    Sleeker action bar design, improved button behavior, and more. Get the details

New on July 28, 2011

  • Invoiced client option
    Your trusted buyers can now purchase images and pay later. Learn more
  • Easily change the text of your "Add to Cart" button in Customization Themes
    Make your "buy" call to action custom fit to your needs. Start here
  • More usable browsing & buying experience
    Cleaner site designs, "View All," and more. Get the details
  • Add your own licensing agreement
    Explain your business and restrictions in your own words. Upload your terms
  • Packages can include 1+ download
    Allow as many file downloads per size as you'd like. Set up a package
  • More self-fulfilled product options
    Upload a sample image and specify a production time. Edit your products
  • And more sales improvements!
    Check out the full nitty-gritty in our forum. Read on

New on June 09, 2011

  • Shopping cart overhaul
    The new, dramatically streamlined cart makes it easy for your clients to buy from you. From adding an item to the cart all the way though to checkout, your buyers will find fewer steps, a cleaner design, and more calls to (buying) action. What your buyer sees
  • Image packages
    By popular demand, we've introduced "packages," which allow you to group together prints, products, and/or personal use downloads to sell at one flat rate. Create a package
  • Authorize.net integration
    Make it even easier on your buyers by collecting credit cards directly via leading gateway provider authorize.net - no more sending your clients to PayPal. Learn more
  • Batch add to cart
    Buying in bulk? Now, your clients can buy from the gallery thumbnail view and add up to 100 images to the cart at once. Check it out
  • Guest checkout for downloads
    All orders - downloads, too, not just prints & products - can now be purchased without requiring the buyer to log in.
  • Sales-flavored theme updates
    Across our themes, you'll find an interactive cart link in the navigation, larger and brighter "Buy" buttons, and a reorganized navigation bar, all designed to make it easier to close a sale. Go theme shopping
  • Order tracking page
    You and your clients alike can enjoy easier shipment tracking with a dedicated shipping info page, linked from all print/product invoices.
  • Preferred pricing type
    Choose your own default for "Add to Cart" and define which items your clients see first: Prints, Products, Packages, or Downloads. Set your preference
  • Anonymous carts purged
    By popular demand, on the 60 day mark we are now clearing out all open carts created by anonymous visitors. Visit your cleaner cart stats

New on May 02, 2011

  • No sales activation fee!
    Starters and Basics can now get set up to sell without paying a dime. Get activated
  • New print partner: BWC Imaging
    Welcome an expanded product list, faster shipping, and a new trusted vendor for your print and product sales. Learn more
  • Simplified billing for sales
    All fulfillment costs will now be billed by PhotoShelter as part of your monthly statement. No more charges from vendors. Learn more

New on January 11, 2011

  • PhotoShelter Print Vendor Network: Enhancements
    Browsing the vendor directory and getting set up with a new lab is now quicker and easier! Learn more

New on December 15, 2010!

  • PhotoShelter Print Vendor Network
    Send your print & product orders to any registered lab in the world! Learn more
  • Portfolio enhancements
    New options for your portfolio display include a new transition style, more info about your images on the page, and improved performance and loading behavior - and now with keyboard shortcuts, too! See for yourself
  • Additional photo wall options
    Revamp your wall with a new constrained height display option, additional hover effects, and gallery name display options. See for yourself
  • Brand new, improved rich text editor
    No need to know HTML to customize your website like a pro. Use the new rich text editor's robust toolset to embed images and links, paste Microsoft code without issue, include international characters, and more without a hiccup. See for yourself
  • Facebook "Like" button
    We've updated our social network posting options for your site's images and galleries to include Facebook "Like," in addition to the traditional post to Facebook, Twitter, and other social sharing options.
  • Cropping for self-fulfilled items
    Formerly a tool exclusively for automated print orders, now photographers may offer the crop mask to buyers of self-fulfilled prints and products, too (English units only).
  • Custom CSS for Basic subscribers
    Have a Basic account but know a bit of CSS? Dress up your website using our "Customize CSS (advanced)" area - without needing to upgrade to a Standard or Pro! Happy customizing

New on October 28, 2010!

  • Photo Wall
    An innovative new homepage mode adds major flexibility to your gallery presentation. Learn more
  • Portfolio Page
    Opt for an elegant, traditional (though Flash-free!) portfolio display of your work. Learn more
  • Typekit Fonts
    Our integration with web-based font pioneer Typekit vastly improves the visual appeal of your site's text. Learn more
  • New Theme: Southpaw
    The first theme with a left-side nav comes with 4 Typekit-enabled styles. See for yourself
  • New Styles for Crisp, Mars, and Maui
    Mars -> Swiss and Maui -> Funhouse embrace Typekit, and Crisp -> Matrimony shows its feminine side. See for yourself
  • Custom Pages for All
    Custom pages are now available for all themes, including Crisp and Mars. Update your site
  • Height Constraint
    Present your vertical images with the same height as your horizontals. Update your theme or your manual mode widgets
  • Panoramic Prints
    Panoramic sizes are now available via two of our print partners - Spectrum and EZ Prints! Update your inventory

August 11, 2010

  • NEW FEATURES
    • Filmstrip option on single image view, which allows your site's visitors to quickly and easily scroll through other images in your gallery or search results without returning to the full thumbnail view.
    • Choose to disable our default Image Theft Guard so your buyers can quickly save images to their desktops via "right click" or by dragging and dropping.
    • Your Gallery Slideshow page is now iPhone and iPad-friendly! Visit thumbnails, click "View Slideshow," and choose a transition style to show off your galleries on the go.
    • Your website's Contact Form is now its own page on your website, free to be customized and with your branding automatically applied. The "Contact" link may be added to the navigation and/or footer of any theme.
    • New metadata options for your gallery thumbnail images. Previously limited to displaying the filename only under your thumbnails, you can now add your headline, description, or title. More control for you, as well as better SEO!
    • More image size flexibility. You now define the size of your homepage's featured images separately from the size of the images on your gallery and search results pages. This affords you more visual control over your homepage without compromising image size elsewhere on your site.
    • New "List Public Galleries w/Image" option for your Search Results Image Display page allows you to show a list of the galleries in which your image is contained. This is good for both human visitors and search engine crawlers, who will have more opportunities to discover and index your content.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • Invitations use your site name instead of your first and last name. For those of you splitting our company name into the first and last name fields, this should alleviate any references to only the first half of your company name! Similarly, messages sent through the forum, Customer Carts, and Transfer History will always display your full name.
    • Filename and .jpg added to image URLs. Another win for image-level SEO, the direct link to the image file now includes the filename and extension in the URL, which helps crawlers understand more about the image they've discovered.
    • The Archive Browser now supports displaying up to 250 thumbnails at a time.

June 10, 2010

  • NEW FEATURES
    • Customizable websites for all! All Basic and Starter accounts now have access to our configurable page templates and suite of customization tools, outfitted with...
    • ...our new Maui theme, complete a choice of styles. Maui is available to all account types.
    • In a nod to your creativity and diverse needs, we've added support for two custom pages that you may enable as needed to supplement your existing page templates.
    • Don't know HTML? No problem! Our custom pages, "About" page, and other areas of your themes now automatically format your text for HTML. (Full, custom HTML still supported, too.)
    • We've added a new "Gallery Slideshow Display" page template, therefore allowing you to customize the slideshow that your visitors see when they click "view slideshow" from your gallery thumbnails.
    • Upload your website logo. No need to source your logo from a third party image host -- upload, save, and preview within your PhotoShelter account.
    • Save vertical space with our streamlined IPTC Keyword Display option. Now, image keywords can be displayed as a comma-delimited list, linked to searches for that term, instead of vertically and represented by checkboxes.
    • We've added RSS support to your gallery collections, enabling your visitors to "subscribe" to a given collection. For tech whizzes, this presents an opportunity for creatively displaying a group of galleries.
    • The homepage has been spruced up to include a page dedicated to photo buyers. This gives a more prominent home to featured photographers, channels buyer activity, and provides another conduit for you to get found.
  • USER EXPERIENCE UPDATES
    • No more PhotoShelter-branded pages of your content. To keep your brand first and foremost, we've retired the standardized PhotoShelter look & feel that previously existed for all web pages. This addresses a frequent source of confusion as well as provides an SEO benefit (removing duplicate content from search engines).
    • Nicer URLs. To improve your brand presence within your site address, your site URL is moving to a "subdomain" (also known as hostname) format: http://yourname.photoshelter.com. Also, we've removed excess characters from your gallery URLs. When your visitors page through a gallery and copy the link to a single image, it will no longer include the lengthy (and unsightly) data. Please note that old links will still work and will redirect to their new versions.
    • In an effort to improve your content's visibility within Google Images, we've upgraded user sitemaps to comply with Google's newly released protocol for Image Search. For those of you using a custom domain for your PhotoShelter pages, your sitemap will now observe your domain where possible, increasing the likelihood your custom URLs will appear in search results. (Power users, also note that public but unlisted gallery URLs also appear in your sitemap if they are contained within a public gallery collection.)
    • Uber-simplified workflow for matching your site to your Graph Paper Press blog. No more copying and pasting, converting to manual, etc. -- simply plug your blog URL into your PhotoShelter account and call it a day! Full tutorial here.
    • Simplified navigation of the "My Website" section of your account, which combines like pages and presents website customization options more intuitively.
    • It's now easier than ever to shop for the theme that suits you best -- your website settings are now preserved across themes, so you won't need to reinvent the wheel when trying out different looks.
    • Streamlined gallery management interface. Cleaner design, elimination of pop-up windows, and more relevant data display.
    • Featured galleries -- now called "Large Featured Galleries" and "Small Featured Galleries" -- can be designated from the gallery list page, from the gallery itself, or from the "My Homepage" website page customizer.
    • We've replaced your "My Bio" text field with a pure HTML field to enable you to add images, hyperlinks, and more. Your existing bios have been copied over to the new format.
    • To improve clarity, "private" galleries are now referred to as "unpublished". This is a terminology change only.
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • As part of our sitemap improvement (see above under "New Features"), we suggest that you remove any existing sitemaps from your Google Webmaster account. We now automatically submit and validate sitemaps on your behalf, so there's no need to submit yours separately.
    • To prepare for an eventual shift to a nested gallery structure, galleries may no longer be added to more than one gallery collection. We've added a one-click mechanism to easily duplicate galleries when attempting to add to a second collection. Any galleries currently included in more than one collection can remain as such until further notice.

March 2, 2010

  • NEW FEATURES
    • The Refer-a-Friend program rewards you for sending your friends our way: an account credit for you, a signup discount for them. Hand out your code, email your friends with your personalized referral link, or add a snazzy badge to your website or blog. Learn more.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • All PayPal sellers: We've streamlined the status reporting on orders that are pending payment approval. This should result in clearer action items for you and less friction between PhotoShelter and PayPal.
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • We've updated our Terms & Conditions to include the new Refer-a-Friend rules & restrictions. Don't worry - there shouldn't be any surprises in the fine print, but as always, we encourage you to read the full policy to be aware of the program's nuances.

February 2, 2010

  • NEW FEATURES
    • Hurray! Coupons are here. Define a coupon code, hand it out to your clients, and watch your sales roll in. You may issue discounts by dollar amount or percentage, and you can set an order minimum so you can ensure you don't get burned on smaller-dollar orders. Get the full lowdown.
    • Our integration with print partner AdoramaPix is open for business! Now, in all of your print pricing profiles, you'll be able to set prices on any Adorama print product & finish, including the popular metallic and black & white options.
    • We have upgraded our rights-managed licensing module to automatically calculate the regional variances suggested by fotoQuote software. For example, worldwide licensing will automatically be double the default rate, whereas Canadian licenses will automatically be marked down 10% of the default. Important: If you have manually marked up/down your prices by region, please check your existing RM profiles to make sure you're happy with the new auto-generated prices.
    • Backprinting - adding a custom message to the back of your prints - is now available for your EZ Prints orders, too.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • You will now be notified by email if Exposure Manager or EZ Prints ever has trouble charging your credit card on file for fulfillment costs. This should help prevent unneeded printing delays.
    • Annual Basic, Standard, and Pro subscribers will now be notified by email 30 days in advance of automatic subscription renewal.
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • The fees for production & shipping of AdoramaPix orders will be charged to your PhotoShelter account alongside the order's transaction fee. This is different from the relationships with EZ Prints and Exposure Manager, both of which will continue to charge your Sales Configuration credit card directly for wholesale costs.

December 17, 2009

  • NEW FEATURES
    • New partners, ExposureManager & AdoramaPix, for automated print and product sales. We are integrating two new partners to give you more choice in the labs you use to sell prints and products. ExposureManager will be fully integrated starting 12/17/2009, and we are targeting the following week to launch with AdoramaPix. Setting up sales through the new partners, plus our existing partner EZprints, will be available in your pricing profiles.
    • Sell automated prints & products, and self-fulfill in multiple currencies. Previously, you were only able to transact with $USD if selling through our automated fulfillment partner EZprints. Now you may transact with your customers in up to 16 currencies - USD, Canadian Dollars, Australian Dollars, New Zealand Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Singapore Dollar, Euros, British Pound Sterling, Swiss Franc, Swedish Krona, Norwegian Krone, Danish Krone, Polish Zloty, Hungarian Forint, Czech Koruna, Japanese Yen. You can set this in your sales configuration.
    • Upgraded Rights Managed pricing calculator to fotoQuote 6. Our partner, Cradoc fotoSoftware, recently updated their industry standard pricing calculator for licensing Rights Managed photography. We have upgraded the PhotoShelter/fotoQuote integration accordingly. With these changes, you'll find simpler usage groupings, regional bundling, geographical variance for pricing, and a buyer-selectable start date. You can review the changes in your pricing profiles.
    • Enhanced tax handling . You may now apply taxes to all types of customer orders. In addition, PhotoShelter now supports VAT regulations as well. You can manually enter tax rates by region. You may also opt to require a customer's shipping address for download purchases to determine appropriate taxes.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • Streamlined sales setup. We have combined the sales configuration and sales preferences into one process to simplify sales configuration.
    • Design updates to shopping cart checkout interface. Your customers will experience subtle design changes to facilitate checkout. We anticipate additional design and usability enhancements here.
    • Simplified shipping setup. You may now define shipping methods and zones at the per-product level, and you may elegantly combine shipping rates for multiple items of varying size. This makes it easier to offer your customers simple rates for combining images when you self-fulfill prints and products.
    • Reorganized "My Sales". We made small organizational changes to present the sales history data more logically.
    • Streamlined, more intuitive Paypal processing. For members selling via Paypal, visitors will now be taken directly to Paypal for payment, rather than opening a pop-up window. This change was implemented to prevent lost sales due to pop-up blockers. In addition, full line item data will be listed in PayPal to provide more detail on the transaction, rather than simply the sum total.
    • Rights managed instant sale feature now uses fotoQuote. Instant sales negotiated independently can now be transacted through the normal cart process.
    • Display seller address on invoice. You may now choose to display your address on invoices to customers in your sales configuration.
    • Cropping override. If you enable cropping of images, you now have the option to override user cropping prior to sending images to the print vendor when you review orders that are "Pending Approval."
    • Canadian provinces added to dropdown menus. We've eliminated the free-form text option for province, and added all provinces to US States in all dropdown areas.
    • Help pages pertaining to e-commerce have been re-written and re-organized.
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • Transaction fees on self-fulfilled orders. Self-fulfilled transaction fees were previously charged when the photographer marked an open order as "closed." Going forward, transaction fees will be billed with the member's next monthly billing statement.

November 23, 2009

  • Two new website themes (Soho & Nolita) released
  • "Tweet this" from gallery and images in the Photographer area including bit.ly URL shortening
  • Post to Social Networks customization widget

October 27, 2009

  • Export to Facebook
  • Post to Facebook
  • Post to Facebook fan pages

October 7, 2009

  • TinEye image fingerprinting commenced

October 1, 2009

  • Graph Paper Press/Wordpress blog integration

April 6, 2009

  • NEW FEATURES
    • To help guide users through our host of new search engine optimization (SEO) tools, we're excited to announce our SEO Grader, a tool to help you evaluate your potential level of search engine visibility - and acclimate you to features that can help you improve it.
    • Cart statistics are here! See who's putting your images in their carts and which images are the most popular.
    • Who's visiting your website? See the list of signups through your customized website, including email addresses, to easily stay in touch with your captive client base.
    • Customizable page titles for your website. Improve your ranking in search engines by customizing your page titles with keywords relevant to your business. Head to your page-level customization options to get started.
    • Customizable meta descriptions for your website's pages. Control the behind-the-scenes page descriptions that are transmitted directly to search engine crawlers. Write your own descriptions today.
    • Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools! Let Google know your site's out there by submitting your site to their index. Full tutorial available.
    • Quick-start guide, complete with video help, for all new users! Not new to the system? Check out the Video Welcome Guide at any time.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • Want the skinny on SEO? Get schooled with our SEO Cookbook, a comprehensive overview of how search engines interpret your website - and tips for improving your visibility and extending your marketing reach.
    • SEO Icons, implemented alongside our host of new SEO features, help draw attention to exactly how PhotoShelter can help you improve your search engine ranking.
    • Sort by Date Taken in both Archive Browser and Galleries: Organize your images in true chronological order.
    • Gallery name inserted in links. To ramp up your SEO at the gallery level - and make your gallery links more human readable - the name of your gallery is now inserted into the link that you share with your clients.
    • Auto-generated meta descriptions and page titles for your website. Where page titles and meta descriptions are not customizable, we auto-generate the title and description that are most appropriate for that page - using the metadata and gallery names you've already entered. Search engines love this!
    • Haven't set up your customized website yet? Check out our simplified Theme selector and Customization Settings pages for an even quicker and easier setup!
    • New theme options! In the interest of putting your best foot forward for search engine rankings, now all themes support filenames under thumbnails, keyword lists next to images, and Statement Paragraphs on the homepage.
    • Manual customization users: Create a Site Name that you may choose to use in your page titles instead of your name.

February 18, 2009

  • NEW FEATURES
    • Track your traffic with Google Analytics. Previously available only to Manual Customization users, now any Standard/Pro user may harness the power of this incredible stat-tracking tool by plugging analytics code directly into your Global Theme Options.
    • Add your blog to your site's navigation. Couldn't be easier - just enter the link to your blog in our "Blog URL" field, and your theme-based site will automatically add the blog to your site's navigation bar.
    • Mouseover image previews. You asked; we delivered! Now, visitors to your site may see more about your image - namely the caption and a larger preview - just by rolling the mouse over a thumbnail! To accommodate varying needs, both you and your buyers may turn this feature on/off.
    • Selectable number of thumbs per page. See more images per page! The standard 25-thumbnail view has been expanded: Use your Global Customization Settings to set the default number of images you'd like to display per page, and your buyers may update it according to their preferences.
    • Set the number of galleries per page. To account for ever-growing lists of galleries and cleaner design, we've added pagination to the public Gallery List view - now you may define how many galleries you'd like to display per page (instead of always listing all galleries on one page). Set your defaults in Global Customization Settings.
    • Add arbitrary promo text to your site's footer. Want to display contact info or a marketing message on every page? Enter it in your theme's footer for prominent visibility!
    • "Display Options" link for site visitors. Because the needs of photo buyers and regular site visitors are diffuse, we've clustered the new page viewing preferences into one "Display Options" section where a return user can define his or her optimal browsing experience.
    • Manual Customization users: Search by filename. For those shooters whose clients reference images by filename, make all of your lives easier by adding "filename" as a searchable field to your Advanced Search form.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • Just in: Photographer Website advice from pro photo buyers! We interviewed 550 of the world's top commercial image buyers on what they love - and hate - about photographer websites. Does yours measure up? Get schooled: Browse our research results and take the quiz!
    • New Featured Photographer selection process! Increase your exposure and get your work and name in front of thousands by submitting 1-3 images to be included in our new homepage slideshow. Check out this month's Featured Photographers and become one yourself!
    • Revamped, sleek public homepage. To improve the browsing experience for photo buyers who visit photoshelter.com, we've improved pages on the public site, including Advanced Search and the Photographer Directory.
    • More prominent display of "My Contact Info". To make it easier for clients to contact you, any contact details you've entered and marked as public will now be listed out on the "Contact" pop-up on your portfolio. Check your contact info to make sure everything's current!
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • We've slightly updated our Terms & Conditions for the new year. One key point of note, located in the "Subscribers/Contributors" paragraph, is our tightening of language surrounding billing: "(v) agree to be automatically re-billed at the frequency of the subscription plan that you selected (either monthly or annually)."

December 19, 2008

  • NEW FEATURES
    • Copy to Gallery consolidation: Now, create a gallery, set its visibility, price images, and make images searchable all in one step! Check it out in the Archive Browser.
    • Huge improvements to the FTP Export interface. Initiate transfers to all destinations in one click, set a path name in batch, and work more quickly and efficiently.
    • New Desktop Uploader! Version 2.3.1 supports faster processing of your images, resulting in improved upload speeds. Download and upgrade today.
    • Support for a long description of your self-fulfilled products: Your buyers can now mouse over your product name to see more details on your custom offerings.
    • Photographers may now opt out of customer-facing auto-notifications when self-fulfill orders are marked as "complete".
    • Stretched canvas now a finish option formally offered for self-fulfilled prints.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • Batch download improvements: Support added for buyer-selectable download size; images download in same sequence as original folder or gallery.
    • Skip a step and send galleries to existing gallery collections from the galleries themselves.
    • MU editors - "Filter by photographer" is back in your Archive Browser!
    • Character limit increased to 255 for the following IPTC fields: Contact Address (street address, city, state/region, country, email), Genre, and Location.
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • All photographer names in the Directory and homepage "Recently Updated" list will now click through to your customized sites.
    • The my.photoshelter.com custom URL you've set here will now point to your customized site!
    • To help with SEO, page titles on customized PhotoShelter websites will now use the value in "My Site Name", which you may set here, or your name if no site name is set.

November 13, 2008

  • NEW FEATURES:
    • Trusted Client Download allows you to tag anyone in your address book and assign them with permission to download the hi-res of anything they can view (up to a certain size you indicate). More here!
    • Client-selectable download sizes allow your buyers to choose the size of the image they're downloading (up to the size you indicate). If you allow an original to be downloaded, the buyer may choose to download the original, a JPEG conversion, or smaller versions of the same JPEG conversion.
    • New customization theme! Check out Caboose, designed for those who want a similar look to their DRR pages, and the brand-new Induro.
    • New customization widgets and widget options that allow more flexibility with displaying galleries, metadata, and more. See all customization changes here.
    • Embeddable gallery slideshow - new options! Code your embedded slideshow to always point back to your customized pages, choose the size and color, or disable full-screen mode. See here for the details.
  • USER EXPERIENCE:
    • We've improved the gallery download permissions to allow your clients to download these gallery images globally — even when they're not in the gallery anymore. For example, if your client adds an image to a lightbox, they can download it from the lightbox later. If they find a gallery image in search results, they can download it from there, too.
    • Now, users who download images from your site will no longer be taken to a new page for the download to initiate — the download will start and finish from the page your client is on. No pop-ups, no "back" buttons!
    • Filename sort no longer distinguishes between capitalized and lowercase letters — it is now a true alphabetical sort.

October 17, 2008

  • NEW FEATURES:
    • Customization Themes are here! Standard and Pro account-holders can now use our spankin' new template-based Customization Themes to create a sleek, personalized portfolio website in under a minute. Start exploring the new themes today! Be sure to check back often - more brand-new themes and styles will be rolled out in the coming weeks.
    • Join the party in the new member Forums. We've created six distinct categories for you to post in, including a Critique forum where photographers may submit work for peer review. Paste an image link into your post to embed a gallery or single image thumbnail.
    • Get viral! You may now embed single images or galleries into blogs or outside websites of your choice. This allows you to extend your marketing exponentially without jeopardizing the security of your work. All images are watermarked according to your preference, "right click"-disabled, and have a direct link back to the image within your PhotoShelter account, where it may be purchased (if available). For single images, use the "Get Link" code at the single-image view in the Archive or Gallery. To embed gallery slideshows, use the "Embed Gallery" link at the gallery thumbnails page in the Photographer Area.
    • RSS Feeds now available on all public search, photographer homepage, and public gallery pages. Instead of being limited to 5 RSS feeds that a photographer must set, all of your publicly available content is now automatically available for syndication. Please note that any previously configured RSS Feeds will remain active for any subscribers.
    • Our Virtual Agency tool is now *free*! Only paid subscribers may create Virtual Agencies (up to 3 per user), but anyone can join a VA. Also new: dedicated, private forums for each Virtual Agency, and a public VA Directory for buyers to browse. Create a VA today and watch your marketing reach expand.
    • We've added a slideshow to our public homepage (http://www.photoshelter.com) and have re-set the main PhotoShelter.com domain to point to the Personal Archive homepage. Want to be included in the member slideshow? Send us a note with a link to a gallery of your choice.
    • Download our new Desktop Uploader! We've optimized speed by pipelining files - check out the improved performance today.
  • USER EXPERIENCE
    • Have you noticed our new look? We've completely redesigned our public, client, and member interfaces to make the user experience more intuitive and fun. We love the new feel and hope you do too! For longtime users, we understand it may take a bit of getting used to. Please check out our Redesign Map to find what you're looking for.
    • We've really streamlined the process of setting up your account to sell, particularly if you opt for self-fulfillment of your prints & products. Not a seller yet? Get configured today!
    • We've also reorganized our help documentation - and added a persistent link to the upper right-hand corner of every page. If you've got questions, try browsing our FAQs and tutorials - it save you an email or phone call.
  • POLICY CHANGES
    • To offer maximum protection for your work, all new accounts now have a text watermark set to ON by default. This also means that if you previously had opted to not display a watermark, you will need to change your preference to turn it back off.

August 6, 2008

  • NEW FEATURES:
    • Login-free checkout now an option! Now, your clients will have the option to choose the new "Guest Checkout" option when purchasing prints or image products from you. (For your protection, any buyer purchasing image downloads must still register for a free PhotoShelter account.) This will allow them to breeze through the purchasing process without registering for an account of any kind.
    • New browser upload method now available in the Personal Archive. Need to send images in batch but don't feel like opening the Desktop Uploader? Try the fast, easy Flash uploader without leaving your browser window.
  • USER EXPERIENCE:
    • Larger thumbnails and screen images! You asked, we delivered. Images, both thumbnail and full screen-resolution sizes, have been increased in your homepage, galleries and search pages. General thumbs are now 150px, sub-gallery key image thumbnails are 200px, and screen-resolution images are 550px. (All dimensions refer to the longest side of the image.)
    • Archive Browser supports click-and-drag. Your home for images now behaves just like your desktop. Click and drag your mouse to select images (or use the handy "Select All" command at the top of the screen. Click once to select an image, click twice to enlarge it.
    • Rights-Managed images now purchased through cart. Formerly, RM purchases were treated as single transactions that bypassed the standard Shopping Cart. Now, RM purchases are added to the cart just as any other image is, so your buyers may purchase multiple images at once - whether it's several RM transactions in one batch or multiple license types at once.
    • Printable invoice page. We've made it easier and cleaner for your clients to print purchase info for their records by adding a single-click "Print" function to the final invoice page.
    • FotoQuote usage definitions added to the pricing calculator. Now, when you or your clients price out a usage, you'll see not only a price but a definition of the terms of use. Check it out by creating an RM pricing profile today!

April 10, 2008

  • SOFTWARE UPDATES:
    • New PhotoShelter Desktop Uploader: 2.2.10 Download here!
    • New Apple Aperture plug-in for uploading to PhotoShelter (supports Aperture v.2.1). Download here!

March 28, 2008

  • NEW FEATURES:
    • Introducing the personal use license!
    • EZ Prints updates: products now available for auto-fulfillment. Prints now fulfilled on Kodak Edge & Endura paper!
    • "Products" tab added to the cart. This tab will display both EZP products and (new!) self-fulfilled non-print items.
    • Drastically streamlined purchasing workflow for RM buyers (all priced RM images are available for immediate purchase; no more negotiations). Special Instructions field being displayed to buyers at checkout to reinforce restrictions.
    • New "zoom" option for the [[image]] customization widget allows buyers to zoom a screen-resolution image up to 1000px!
    • New looks for the Gallery (larger thumbnail option!) and Archive Browser (consolidated batch action buttons).
  • USER EXPERIENCE:
    • Faster searches across the entire Personal Archive- internal Photographer Area searches are exponentially faster!