GalleryForge - Client Gallery Builder

About GalleryForge

GalleryForge is a gallery-delivery app for wedding, portrait, and event photographers paying gallery-delivery SaaS forever for something that is, technically, resized images in a nice grid.

🖼️ FOLDER IN, GALLERY OUT

Point GalleryForge at a folder of finished images, pick a theme, and get a beautiful, self-contained client gallery — ready to hand over on a drive or host anywhere, with no ongoing hosting bill from anyone but you.

🎯 HOW IT WORKS

1. Import a shoot folder — GalleryForge builds an EXIF-ordered contact grid for a keyboard-driven cull
2. Batch-process the picks — resize and watermark, all on your own machine
3. Pick a gallery theme and generate the finished site — cover page, lightbox, and download buttons
4. Deliver by folder, ZIP, or a one-click upload to your own hosting

📸 A REAL DELIVERY PIPELINE, NOT JUST A GRID

• Import & cull — folder import, EXIF-ordered contact grid, keyboard-driven pick/reject pass, star ratings
• Processing pipeline — batch resize (web + hi-res), logo or text watermark with position/opacity control, JPEG export, all done on your own machine
• Gallery generator — static, dependency-free HTML/CSS/JS output: cover page, sections, lightbox, slideshow, per-photo and full-ZIP downloads, client-side password gate, responsive layout, with 4 designed themes
• Client selection mode — a favorites picker inside the gallery lets clients export their picks as a file they send back, which GalleryForge imports to show the chosen list — a proofing workflow with zero backend
• Shoot manager — client, date, package, delivery status, and archive locator for tracking which drive the RAWs live on
• Printable proof-sheet PDF — a contact-sheet grid of thumbnails with filenames and star ratings, handy for client review or handing to a lab

📤 DELIVER YOUR WAY

Export the finished gallery to a folder or USB drive (works today, forever), send it as a ZIP for WeTransfer-style delivery, or use the built-in FTP client (plain FTP, not SFTP/FTPS) to upload directly to hosting you already own. The FTP upload is the only feature that talks to the network — everything else, including gallery generation, runs entirely on your machine.

🔒 YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE

GalleryForge works fully offline for import, culling, processing, and gallery generation. It's a one-time purchase, not a subscription: no monthly gallery-hosting fee eating into every shoot's margin. Your images never pass through anyone's servers unless you choose to FTP them to hosting you control.

GALLERYFORGE IS PERFECT FOR:

→ Wedding and portrait photographers tired of paying monthly for gallery hosting

→ Event photographers who need a fast cull-to-delivery pipeline after a long shoot day

→ Photographers who want client proofing without running a web service

→ Anyone who wants galleries that outlive whatever SaaS company folds next

→ Studios delivering print-ready files alongside a polished online gallery