The PhotoDeck blog

It's update day again! Today, we're bringing an updated look to the checkout pages on PhotoDeck websites.

What has changed?

• Cleaner and more robust design on pricing pages;
• Simpler and more modern cart, orders and quotations pages;
• Uncluttered payment page to further reduce checkout friction;
• Fully responsive content to better align mobile and desktop pages.

To benefit from this update already today, please simply accept the prompt to update your rendering engine (for both your mobile and desktop sites) in your admin space!

PhotoDeck turns ten today: as we initially mainly focused on stock photography, what better way to celebrate than bringing our members a little new feature to help license images?

A few days ago, Google's initiative to indicate licensable images in their images search results went out of Beta.

To benefit most from this "Licensable" badge, the best is to make sure the new images you upload and distribute have the proper metadata embedded. This way, when they are distributed and indexed by Google on another website, they can still be linked to your PhotoDeck website for licensing.

For images already on your PhotoDeck website, and to allow linking images directly to their own pricing page, we've added a new feature that lets you tell Google that your images are indeed licensable, without modifying the metadata embedded into your images.

So here you go, a simple switch to turn on (under My Website / Setup / SEO), and when Google crawls your website again, they'll list your images as being licensable -- by default with a link to the purchase page to make it easy for potential buyers!

We've just rolled out a new version of the section in the member admin space dedicated to the managing and customizing your website (the My website panel).

Now, the navigation is organized around the website's menu, making your workflow much more intuitive and efficient.

In addition, switching between the desktop and the mobile sites is also much easier, it's now a single click.

Similarly, for each gallery you'll find buttons to quickly switch between the gallery preview under My site and its management panel under My images.

The actual settings and the interface to customize the design of the desktop and mobile themes haven't changed, so we're confident you'll easily find your way around -- your feedback is always welcome!

To fully benefit from the new interface, please accept the prompt in your interface to update the website rendering engine.

NEW: Upload, deliver, sell RAW files

We've now made it possible to upload to your PhotoDeck account image files in the major RAW formats (DNG, CR2, CR3, CRW, NEF, NRW, ARW, ...)!

While this is mostly meant for commercial client proofing and delivery scenarios, RAW files can also be sold. You'll find a new pricing profile template in your admin space for that purpose.

Following our recent design and themes update, we've been hard at work expanding PhotoDeck's capabilities to make our members' life easier, and better support their business.

1- Custom quotations for images and services, easily

Until now, clients could request quotations for images and video clips from PhotoDeck websites. With this update, PhotoDeck members can themselves create and send new quotations, including for custom services (i.e. things not necessarily related to images), directly from their admin space.

For example, this makes it exceedingly easy to:

• have a client purchase and download a few specific images/clips without having to create a new gallery for him ;
• collect payment for anything, like booking or workshop fees.

The new Create a quotation button can be found under My Business / Orders / Quotations.

2- BETA: PhotoDeck for Teams

We've built the ability to add Team Members to PhotoDeck accounts, so that a member can delegate access to his admin space to different people with different credentials -- and different user rights.

This is a big one. PhotoDeck is used not only by independent photographers but also by teams and organizations, and this feature opens up new possibilities to them.

This options requires a BUSINESS account. It is free of charge during the BETA period, until the end of September. Please contact support to get it!

3- An additional website, easily and affordably

We've also added the possibility to create additional websites under a single PhotoDeck STANDARD or BUSINESS account, sharing the same storage and all features, at a much lower price than a new account.

Many members have distinct specialities, and using different websites helps maintain a focused branding!

This will also come in handy for those who want to try something different without compromising their main website, while keeping the extended feature set they're used to and limiting costs.

The additional website add-on can be found under your subscription management page. Note that we are unfortunately not able to consolidate several existing accounts into a single one and this can only be used for new websites.