Websites & tools for serious photographers
- Launch your new website in 5 minutes
- Sell prints, downloads and products
- Market yourself with social media & SEO
- Securely deliver images to clients
A good looking website's just the start...
Our websites & built-in tools help you show, sell, and manage your photos onlineYour online business should have the strongest possible foundation:
- 9 website templates or design your own
- Marketing tools to get you exposure
- E-commerce to sell your photography
- Pro tools to manage clients & deliver images
- A bulletproof, searchable image archive
- High security to protect your photos
- A community of serious photographers
- Education & resources to grow your photo business
- A live, human support staff that has your back
"You could ask 10 people how they make money using PhotoShelter and you would get 10 different answers. That's what is so great about it. There are so many ways to use it and use it to your advantage." - Craig Mitchelldyer, Wedding & Commercial photographer. PhotoShelter Member since 2005
Build your photography website here
Go live in 5 minutes with our pro templates, or design your own look!
Just a few key website features:
- 9 basic templates with multiple styles - or use manual mode and design away!
- Upload a logo - your branding, not ours
- Multiple image size options
- E-commerce shopping cart
- iPad & iPhone slideshows
- Embed videos
- Integrated SEO and social sharing tools
- Built-in keyword search
- Password protection for client galleries
- Image theft protection
- Unlimited galleries & gallery collections
- One-click integration with WordPress design themes by Graph Paper Press
- Simple menu for adding navigation items
- Standard PhotoShelter gallery pages + custom pages for adding your own content
- Make changes anytime - no coding needed!
"As a web developer, I wanted to build a custom site that did everything I wanted, but then I realised PhotoShelter could do it much better and much quicker." - Lewis Craik, Motorsports photographer. PhotoShelter Member since 2009
Attract new visitors & build a following
Get seen with powerful marketing tools that workYour website's built-in marketing tools:
- 30+ Search Engine Optimization (SEO) factors you control - the best in the industry
- SEO Grader scans your account & helps you climb the rankings
- Post galleries to Twitter, Facebook and over 200 other social networks
- WordPress plugin for efficient photo blogging
- Email gallery invitations directly to clients
- Embeddable slideshows (just like YouTube)
- Virtual Agencies enable groups of photographers to jointly market their work
- Automatic creation and submission of sitemaps to Google
- Simple Google Analytics integration
- PicScout integration allows buyers to find you
- Be one of 20+ photographers featured monthly on our image buyers' page
"I get a great response from editors who've used my PhotoShelter galleries. I've reached markets I never would have explored and attracted a lot of attention from this truly globalized community." - Ami Vitale, Photojournalist. PhotoShelter Member since 2005
Sell your photography online
E-commerce is easy: sell prints, products, downloads & more
Your website's built in sales tools:
- Integrated e-commerce shopping cart
- Sell prints, products, downloads and stock
- No waiting for the money, you get paid instantly at the point of sale
- 24/7 secure sales let you sell while traveling or sleeping
- Multiple professional print partners in the US
- Self-fulfill any print or product you can think of
- Built-in industry standard princing calculator for stock sales
- Unlimited pricing profiles
- Sell in 16 different currencies
- Drive sales with coupons & discount codes
- Sales reports and statistics
- Set taxes by US/Canadian state or country and indicate VAT
- Do business efficiently with our Instant Sale feature
- Low fees. We take 8% to 10% based on account type, you keep the rest.
"PhotoShelter rocks. Not only do you keep bringing joy with update after update - I have made my fourth magazine sale in just under a week, just by being online and searchable. Thanks for everything." - Keith Bedford, Photojournalist. PhotoShelter Member since 2005
Delight your clients with pro tools
Keep clients happy, make life easier, and get your images in their hands fastPhotoShelter is built to help you get the deal done:
- Secure delivery of your high resolution files
- Lightboxes for easy proofing and collaboration
- File transfer statistics
- FTP high-res direct to clients
- Invite-only and Password Protected galleries
- IPTC metadata embedded in every file
- On-the-fly resizing of your files for clients
- Custom download permissions based on email invites, email addresses or password protection
- Optional comp-downloads
"PhotoShelter enables us to delight our wedding and event clients with a fully branded, customized, and password protected environment to review their images directly on our website. Because of this, we view PhotoShelter as a true partner that helps us get business done." - Missy McLamb, Wedding & Editorial photographer. PhotoShelter Member since 2006
Manage your online archive
Upload and organization made simple, and high security to keep photos safe
Your website has a powerful backend for your workflow:
- Unlimited galleries & gallery collections
- Image theft protection
- 9 different upload methods including Lightroom, Aperture and PhotoMechanic
- Custom watermarking
- Photos are kept private until you're ready to show them
- Drag-and-drop organization of files
- Access your original files almost anywhere
- Batch editing
- Automatic import of IPTC data
- Built-in keyword search
"I'm using PhotoShelter for all of my web-based needs. They host over 2,000 of my images and have made the fulfillment of fine art print orders and image licensing extremely easy. With PhotoShelter, I can manage my site from anywhere without knowing how to use HTML or design software. It's the best photography business decision I've made." - Shelley Alger, Travel photographer. PhotoShelter Member since 2009
A community of serious photographers
Education and free resources to help grow your photography businessWe're here to help you find success and community online:
- A community of 65,000 serious photographers
- Free photography business reports
- Monthly live online training seminars
- Tips, tactics and advice from the blog
- Industry discounts to PhotoShelter members
- An active community forum
- Referral incentives for friends to joining
- A community of serious photographers
- Educational events & resources around the US
- A live, human support staff that has your back
"The PhotoShelter community is extremely helpful and supportive in my pursuit of photography through their webinar series and forums. PhotoShelter has given me an easy platform to have a professional web presence. I can make photographs instead of learning hours of html." - Greg Taylor, Music photographer. PhotoShelter Member since 2009