Send a proofing gallery, get picks back

Proofing that comes back as a decision, not a thread

A proofing round usually ends as a mess: a folder of files, an email thread of filenames, and a client who "thinks it was the third one from the top". Sending the gallery as an EveryPage link replaces all of that with a structured selection. One URL opens the whole set in the browser, on any device, and each reviewer marks every page pick, maybe, or reject right there - so what comes back to you is an answer, page by page, not a paragraph to decode.

The same link is where feedback lives. Instead of "the one with the tree, make it warmer", a reviewer draws a box on the exact frame and pins the comment to it. You open one report and see every annotation grouped by page, next to the pick/maybe/reject tally for that page and the name of whoever left it - the entire round in one place.

How photo proofing works

• Pick, maybe, reject - per page.One image per page works best: each page becomes a unit a reviewer can mark. Every mark updates a live per-page tally so you can watch the shortlist form.
• A breakdown by reviewer.You get more than a total - you see which reviewer chose pick, maybe, or reject on each page, so you can tell the art director from the client and act on the split.
• Named reviewers via invites.Send the gallery to a list and every set of picks arrives with a name attached rather than as anonymous marks - the same email-invite distribution that names your readers.
• Box-and-comment annotations.A reviewer drags a box around the detail and attaches a comment to it; you read them all grouped by page, tagged with who left each one - no account required of the reviewer.
• Selections that persist across visits.A reviewer's marks are saved to them, so proofing can span several sittings and pick up where they left off - and a returning client sees their own shortlist intact.
• Export the selections to CSV.Pull the whole round out as a CSV - every page, every reviewer, every pick/maybe/reject - to hand to the retoucher, the printer, or your own records.
• Watermark and self-destruct the preview.Client previews are proofs, not deliverables: per-viewer watermarking names every page per reviewer, and a self-destructing link lets the whole gallery expire on a view budget or a date once the selection is made.

What the owner actually sees

Your side of a proofing gallery is a single report. Each page shows its pick/maybe/reject tally and, expanded, the individual reviewers behind those marks; each annotation sits under the page it belongs to with the box preserved and the commenter named. The shortlist is whatever you filter to - every page a majority picked, everything one specific client rejected - and the CSV export hands the same data to whoever does the next step.

And because an EveryPage link is tracked underneath all of it, the selection sits on top of full readership: you know the gallery was opened, which frames held attention longest, and whether a reviewer came back for a second pass before committing - usually the sign a decision is close. None of it stores a reviewer's IP address.