I think I mention how amazing my brides my brides are on a daily basis, but I am going to do it again. Recently one of my brides….like many recently…..opted to have a Bridal Boudoir session the morning of the wedding. (This is when the bride wants to take a few photos in some bridal lingere or just her bridal shoes and veil….classy, sexy, cute, stunning images to surprise her hubby with after the wedding.) When I returned the images to her, she wanted to share the whole PASS link, but didnt want anyone to see those images in her “Bridal Boudoir” folder. She then also had a few family members that were not comfortable with everyone seeing their faces/images either. I completely understood…old school…traditional. 100% ok.
So after a little digging and time, my bride found a way to not only make a gallery of images in PASS, but organize and re order images so that her family and friends viewing the images would not know that any images were really missing from the day. When I saw how she did this, I asked her to guest blog for me today and tell all of my clients and fans HOW this can be done without sacrificing the amazingness of all things PASS!!!
TUTORIAL: HOW TO SHARE JUST YOUR FAVORITE PHOTOS IN A PASS WEB-ALBUM.
Hello fellow KNP brides! As Kaitlin has probably explained to you, Pass is the best way to share your gorgeous high quality photos. The only problem is that once the photos have been uploaded to Pass, they can’t be edited or rearranged! I myself am totally OCD when it comes to the chronological order of photos. I guess I just wanted to share our memories in the order that they happened, just like telling a story. And I only wanted my favorite photos to be shared. Don’t get me wrong, I totally LOVED every single shot that Kaitlin took for us, but I just didn’t want to overwhelm my friends and family with a couple thousand photos to look through! Lol! And so I figured out a way to pick out my favorite shots, and still be able to share them in HD!
**Before you go through this whole process, I’d like to share all the pros and cons.
Pros:
-Custom album with just your favorite photos.
-You can still have your photos divided into sub-albums like Kaitlin has them.
-You can arrange the photos in the order you like.
-It’s won’t cost you anything.
-You will still be able to share your photos in HD unlike with other platforms like FB or Instagram that cause pixels and graininess in the photos.
-You won’t lose all the other photos. You will still have the entire album that Kaitlin has given you to keep forever. (The new album won’t change or alter your original album!)
Cons:
-The whole process is a bit time consuming.
-You would have to download Pass (which isn’t really that bad).
-Your new album will only be sharable for 30 days (unless you pay an additional $29 upgrade charge to keep them up forever).
-Your new album won’t be linked to Kaitlin’s website, but when you share it with family and friends, be sure to tag, hash tag and link her. She will greatly appreciate that!
-When your guests view the new (free) Pass album, your guests will only be able to download one photo at a time.
Ok, so those are all the pros and cons I’ve come up with. The biggest “con” for me is not being able to share Kaitlin’s website with my guests directly from the album. Meaning, no “Thank you” page, “Meet the photographer” etc. So what I did was to just share her web address link to my guests along with the link to my new album. Also, not being able to keep my photos sharable for more than 30 days was initially a big concern too… I thought of paying for the upgrade, but then I changed my mind. I actually think 30 days is long enough for me to share this album. I’m planning on saving the photos to DVDs or USBs to give them to special family and friends anyway. But that’s just me…
So if you decide to make a new Pass album like I did, here are the steps I took:
Step 1- PICK YOUR FAVS
Go through each Collection (album) that Kaitlin has uploaded. It is easier to go through one album at a time! Let’s start with BRIDALS. Pick out your favs and download each photo. (You’ll need to create a username and password to download photos.)
Step 2- DOWNLOAD THE PHOTOS
Once you’ve downloaded all the photos you want from the BRIDALS album, go to your computer’s DOWNLOADS folder. Once at the DOWNLOADS folder, create a sub-folder and title it BRIDALS. Transfer all the photos to that sub-folder.
Step 3- CREATE MORE ALBUMS
Repeat the previous steps with the other collections Kaitlin has put up. Each album should be a separate folder. It’s just much easier that way when you’re uploading your photos again. Also, it will be much easier to rearrange your photos in small batches than if you downloaded everything to one location.
Once you’ve finished working on all your albums, then you can download Pass.
Step 4- DOWNLOAD PASS
You won’t be able to upload the photos directly to Kaitlin’s Pass website. You will actually have to SIGN UP and DOWNLOAD PASS yourself!
Go to your web browser and type: http://pass.us/
Next, click the link “Get PASS Now.” And proceed to create a Pass account. You’ll need to enter your name, email and create a password. Business name? You can make something up… Don’t worry, you won’t need to give any credit card info, downloading Pass is totally free! Once you’ve downloaded the app to your computer, you can start creating a new Event with new Collections.
Step 5- UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS TO PASS
Create a new event by dragging your first album (Probably “BRIDALS”) to the Pass drop box. While those photos are going up it’s going to ask you to name your event and create an event link. Keep in mind, these names will be the titles for your entire event album not just the first collection. Click “NEXT”.
Then you will need to add a recipient. You can put any name and email here, it doesn’t matter. ☺ Click “NEXT” again. Now you will see that your first album has been uploaded.
Step 6- ARRANGE YOUR PHOTOS IN THE ORDER YOU LIKE
If you click on the “MANAGE” link on the left you will be able to see all of the photos you’ve just put up. If you mouse over the photo you’d like to move, click and drag it to a new position. It’s as simple as that! You can arrange the photos however you like, or in chronological order like I did. ☺
Step 7- UPLOAD MORE ALBUMS
To upload another album, make sure you’re still on the “MANAGE” link. From there you will see tabs for “Key photo”, “All photos”, “Collections” with the sub-tab “+ Add Collection” and “+ Add photos.”
Click on “+Add Collection” and start typing the name of your second album and press “ENTER”. You will know that your new album has been created if you see it has a different colored square before it. I believe the first album has a green square and the second will have a blue square. Sorry to go into so much detail, it got a little confusing for me the first time I did this and I kept uploading to my first album by mistake!
Make sure you click on the “collection” you’d like to add photos to before you click “+ Add photos”. Once you’ve highlighted both tabs, then you can drag and drop your photos.
As long as you are still working on your album, you can customize it as you please. For example, right clicking the name of a collection will give you more options like changing collection titles or deleting collections all together. That’s pretty much it! I hope this tutorial was helpful and not too confusing! ☺
PS- Thank you Kaitlin for bearing with my craziness! And thank you so much for all you’ve done for us! We still can’t get over how beautiful our photos turned out. Thank you!!
Wow! How amazing was that everyone?!!?! I told you….BEST BRIDES EVER AWARD TO ALL MY KNP BRIDES. I hope everyone enjoyed this guest blog and that you will leave a little feedback and positive love for my bride for taking time our of her day to write this for all of us.
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