Can guests make selections?

Not today. The screen is limited to the event's owner, its editors and admins — a guest opening it gets a permission error. If you want a family member to choose, add them to the event as an editor.

Two of us selected different photos. Whose wins?

Both. Selections are stored per person and the photographer sees them grouped by who sent them, so nobody's picks quietly replace anybody else's.

Can I change my mind after sending?

Yes. Reopen the screen, adjust, and send again — what the photographer sees is your current selection.

Is there a target count for the album?

No. The screen shows how many you have chosen and leaves the target to you and your photographer — it does not enforce a page count.

For hosts

Album Photo Selection, without the spreadsheet

A dedicated selection screen with checkbox, shift-click and drag-marquee — then one action that sends exactly what you chose.

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Printed photographs laid out on a table being chosen by hand

The album conversation is usually a spreadsheet of filenames or a thread of screenshots. Both lose track of which frame was actually meant, and both put the fiddly part on whoever is least equipped to do it.

Selection gets its own screen instead, built like a file manager rather than a photo viewer: click to pick, shift-click for a run, or drag a marquee across a block of frames. The count follows you. When you send, the photographer receives the real photos, grouped by who chose them, so two people can each send their own set without either being overwritten.

Operate it

Tick a few frames. The count follows — that is the whole interaction, and nothing is sent anywhere.

Album selection4 picked of 12

Everyone else who opens the gallery can still look, favourite and download — only the couple’s picks become the album.

They mark the ones they want.

Tick a few above and the studio delivers exactly those — no thread of screenshots and filenames, no guessing which frames were meant.

The album selection screen in InstantPix, showing picked frames and who is allowed to pick — Album selection — the picks, and who is allowed to make them.

How it works

01Open the selection screenA separate screen from the delivery gallery, laid out for picking rather than for viewing.
02Pick with whatever gesture suitsPer-photo checkbox, Ctrl/Cmd or Shift click, or a drag marquee that auto-scrolls at the edges.
03Send"Send to photographer" sends your selection; "Send whole album" sends everything if that is genuinely the answer.
04Revise any timeReopen and send again — the photographer sees your current selection, not a pile of old ones.

At a glance

Where: Its own screen on the event
Who can select: Event owner, editors and admins
Gestures: Checkbox · Shift/Ctrl click · drag marquee
Scale: Loads in pages; handles very large galleries
Photographer sees: Each person's set, kept separate

Availability

Live on every event. Owner, editor and admin only.

A delivered InstantPix gallery with the studio's name, the event's sections and a photo grid — A delivered gallery: the studio’s name, the event’s sections, one grid.

Questions

Can guests make selections?: Not today. The screen is limited to the event's owner, its editors and admins — a guest opening it gets a permission error. If you want a family member to choose, add them to the event as an editor.
Two of us selected different photos. Whose wins?: Both. Selections are stored per person and the photographer sees them grouped by who sent them, so nobody's picks quietly replace anybody else's.
Can I change my mind after sending?: Yes. Reopen the screen, adjust, and send again — what the photographer sees is your current selection.
Is there a target count for the album?: No. The screen shows how many you have chosen and leaves the target to you and your photographer — it does not enforce a page count.

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