Tonsho has announced a new service for photographers that we think some of our customers, most particularly you younger or newer ones looking to eke out a living in something like senior portraits, weddings, or any other ‘consumer’ level client-driven branch, might appreciate.

Their idea is simple enough: running a website with client-specific galleries for clients to view (and only the right clients to view) and make selections and order prints from is a lot of work, and setting that sort of site up is probably outside the budgets and time-restraints of a lot of working photogs.

Their solution is also nice, and we’ll just use their own wording for it:

You have a collection of photographs from a shoot – a family portrait session for example – and you want to email them to all family members so that they can choose the photos they want to buy from you.

You write an email to all the family members and attach the photos as normal, then send the email through our servers. The photos are removed from the email and stored on our password-protected website. A gallery of thumbnail images is created, with links to reduced-size preview images, each protected by a watermark. The family members receive your email with the large photo attachments replaced by a link and a password to the web page containing the photo gallery.

The customer selects which photos they want from the gallery and the size and fills in some contact details, which we then email to you. You fulfill the order direct with the customer, further strengthening the client relationship.

There’s a one month free trial right now, so grab that up if it sounds like something you could be down with. And, don’t forget our <a href=”http://robertsimaging.com/photolab.jsp”>Online Photo Lab</a> when it comes time to actually fill those print orders, we’re still offering pro-level quality at all sizes for consumer prices. And we ship, too.