Get paid for the weddings you have already delivered.
Hand each gallery to the couple who paid for it. Your storage bill goes away, and you earn a third of the profit on every print they or their guests order — for as long as the gallery exists, which is for good.
No subscription, no setup fee. We'll be in touch within a day.
38
Delivered
None of which you store.
$4,180
Earned this year
15% of prints, monthly.
You are paying, every month, to store weddings you were paid for once.
30 weddings
You pay for 300GB. Everyone is delighted.
90 weddings
You are storing 900GB of galleries nobody has opened in eighteen months.
150 weddings
You archive the old ones, because the alternative is paying forever. Somebody's wedding quietly disappears.
That is why every gallery in this industry has a deletion date. It isn't meanness, it's the only way the arithmetic closes when one fee has to cover storage forever. Afterglow moves the cost to the person who wants the gallery to last — and then pays you.
A wedding you shot in 2019 should be earning, not costing.
Upload it. Hand it over. Get paid for years.
Upload
Drop in the edited set. Faces are indexed and every photograph described automatically, so guests can find themselves and search by what is in the frame. You do nothing but upload.
Hand over
One button. The couple owns it from that moment — you keep access and lose control, which is the point. It settles the rights question too: you put the photographs there, so nobody needs anyone's written consent.
Earn
A third of the profit on every print ordered from that gallery, for as long as it exists — including from the couples who turned down your album, which is most of them. Books and albums follow; prints are what we sell today.
We measure every frame before anyone is allowed to buy it.
You spent the day getting these right, and a soft 16 × 20 with your name on the back is your problem long after it stops being ours. So sizes a photograph cannot carry are not offered for that photograph — not greyed out, not warned about, not there.
Resolution is computed after the crop, not before. A twelve-megapixel frame has thrown away a fifth of its pixels before an 8 × 10 reaches the press — which is why a megapixel count alone will happily sell somebody a soft print.
At 20 × 30 the median crop loss across this library is zero — the size is 2:3 and so is most of the camera work. The 88 frames that cannot carry it are simply never offered it.
The crop is the customer's
A guest drags the frame where they want it and watches what falls outside dim away. A dashed line marks the couple of percent the press trims on every edge, so nobody puts a face somewhere it cannot survive. Nobody is posted a photograph with their own head cut off.
Faces anchor the frame
The opening crop is centred on the people, not on the geometric middle. Centring a group shot on the middle of the frame is how you crop the bride out of it.
Originals, never the preview
The lab receives the full-resolution original with the buyer's crop applied. Web derivatives exist for browsing and never leave the browser.
You already lost the album sale. Earn on it anyway.
Most couples decline the album. They say they'll print their own, and then they do — through somebody who pays you nothing. Every one of those orders placed through Afterglow pays you a third of the profit, on work you have already finished.
And it keeps paying. A gallery that never expires is a gallery somebody opens on an anniversary, at a christening, after a funeral — and orders something from, years after you last spoke.
| Guest pays | You earn | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 × 6 | $4.00 | $0.82 |
| 5 × 7 | $6.00 | $1.20 |
| 8 × 10 | $12.00 | $2.71 |
| 11 × 14 | $24.00 | $5.31 |
| 16 × 20 | $45.00 | $6.60 |
| 20 × 30 | $80.00 | $11.25 |
- Costs you
- Nothing — no subscription, no fee
- Paid
- Monthly, once ordering opens
- Your storage bill
- Removed entirely
Print ordering is being built now. Galleries, handover and guest delivery work today.
The delivery becomes part of what they remember.
Every guest by name
Each household opens a sealed card with their own name on it and the couple's note inside — then the gallery. Not a link and a password.
One selfie finds them
A guest takes a selfie and gets every photograph they appear in. No scrolling four hundred frames looking for their own face.
Nothing expires
The sentence you can say that nobody else can: this will still be here in thirty years.
Afterglow isn't a gallery platform. It replaces the bill, not the tool.
Pixieset, Pic-Time and ShootProof are very good products. They are simply sold to you and hosted on your subscription, priced by how many photographs you are holding — 100, 1,500, 5,000, 25,000 by tier, and about $3 a month to archive whatever spills over. So the gallery is yours to keep paying for and theirs to lose. Keep using yours for proofing if you like. Hand the finished wedding here.
| Afterglow | GuestCam | Pixieset · Pic-Time · ShootProof | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who chooses what guests see | You do, photograph by photograph | Nobody — everyone sees everything | Your photographer |
| Who buys it | You do | You do | Your photographer does |
| Who owns the gallery | You | They do, for a year | Your photographer |
| What it costs | Once | Once | Every month, forever |
| When it disappears | Never | Twelve months | When they stop paying |
| Storage limit | None | By plan | 100 to 25,000 photographs by tier |
| Every guest gets their own link | Yes | One shared code | One shared link |
| Albums only some guests can see | By name — no password exists | No | A second password per album |
| Guests add their own photographs | Yes | Yes | Rarely |
| Prints, mailed to guests | Yes, from a professional lab | No | Yes |
Bring one wedding. See what it pays.
No subscription, no contract, no setup fee. Hand over a single gallery and keep everything you already use.
We're onboarding studios one at a time so the first weddings go perfectly.