Email ping-pong
Contact sheets sent as attachments, feedback scattered across six threads, and nobody sure which version is the right one.
Solution
The photo studio that runs without email
Alpha studio was imagined by a working photographer, then shaped by more than ten years of daily use in studios. It answers the real question of the trade: how do you get images approved by a client who is not in the room, and deliver their HD files without losing the evening to it?
Designed by a photographerRemote client approvalAutomated HD deliveryUnlimited users
A studio's daily life
What costs you hours every week
It is almost never the shooting that derails a studio schedule.
Missing samples
A set built, a team booked — and three references that never arrived.
File transfers
Links that expire, 40 GB uploads, and clients asking for the delivery again three weeks later.
Filing versions
V2, V2_final, V2_final_OK: files pile up and nobody knows which one was approved.
Incomplete briefs
The instruction was in an email, the guidelines in a PDF, the rough in a message: nothing in the same place.
Non-billable time
All that coordination is real work — but it appears on no invoice.
The answer
A production space shared with your clients
You invite your client into the application. They find exactly what they need to see, and nothing else.
- They approve from their browser — lightweight previews generated on the fly, annotation straight on the image, a dated and traceable decision.
- They follow progress on their own — what has been shot, what awaits their decision, what has been delivered: no more phone calls.
- They receive files automatically — the moment approval lands, by download, FTP or a drop into their DAM.
- You keep the history — up to 99 versions per image, comparable two by two, viewable indefinitely.
- You invite whoever you want — the client, their agency, the clipping supplier: users are unlimited and cost nothing extra.
- You show you are serious — offering an online approval space sets you apart when a tender is on the table.
Modules
The modules that matter to a studio
Module
Approval workflow
A visual's journey from request to delivery: workflows, guidelines, annotation, arbitration.
Learn more → ModuleBrief & Road Book
Guidelines, roughs, layouts and notes attached to the project and to each visual.
Learn more → ModuleSample logistics
The product list per photo and real-time check-in of incoming samples.
Learn more → ModuleRetouching & clipping
Automated round trips with your suppliers, from raw file to finished file.
Learn more → ModuleAutomated HD delivery
Download, dedicated FTP, remote FTP to a DAM: approved is delivered.
Learn more → ModulePIM — product repository
One product record, all its references, its visuals and its stock.
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A typical session
From signed quote to invoice
The project is created
You open the project, import the list of expected visuals (CSV) and invite the client and their contacts.
The brief fills up
Guidelines, roughs, framing instructions, product list: everything lands in the right place, with no attachment.
Samples arrive
You check deliveries in. The client sees for themselves what is still missing and chases their supplier.
You shoot and upload
Files go up online or by FTP. The application checks the naming and files them on its own.
The client approves
From their desk, from home or on the move. Rejections come with a precise annotation, not with "it's not quite right".
Delivery leaves by itself
Approved is delivered. You have nothing left to send.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
The Studio plan is designed for exactly that: unlimited projects and users, built-in briefing, single approval and delivery by download. Setup takes a few hours.
A reviewer has two gestures to make: look, and decide. Training is delivered per profile in short sessions, and a client reviewer is self-sufficient within minutes.
Yes. A dedicated FTP account is configured in the application, and approved files can also be dropped onto a remote server.
A few hours. The configuration is put in place after a scoping session on the way you work, then users are trained per profile.