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Professional photo printing
A professional lab relationship covers the available print products, production specifications, ordering requirements, and physical manufacturing service it currently offers.
Photography software roles
Loxley Colour and Client Gallery Software for Photographers
Understand the difference between professional photo printing and a client-facing gallery workflow for image selection, products, previews, cart, and checkout.
- Separate production and selling
- Start from the client image
- Preserve order context
Quick answer
Photographers researching Loxley Colour and client gallery software are often comparing two related but different jobs. Loxley Colour presents itself as a professional photo printing service. GalleryDock focuses on the client-facing path that begins with a finished photograph in a gallery and continues through digital or print selection, product, size, crop, room preview, cart, and checkout. A photographer may need a professional production relationship and a separate system for presenting client work and capturing the buyer's exact choice. This guide explains those responsibilities without claiming that GalleryDock is Loxley Colour, integrates with Loxley Colour, replaces every laboratory workflow, or offers identical products and services. Current first-party information should always be checked before relying on brand-specific operational details.
Role clarity
Separate the lab role from the client-gallery role
The software stack becomes easier to choose when each responsibility has a clear owner.
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Client presentation
A client gallery presents the finished photographs in a private or public experience where the buyer recognizes the assignment and the photographer.
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Product decision
The selling layer helps clients connect an image to visible digital or physical products, sizes, prices, crops, and room context.
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Order context
The purchase path preserves which photograph, product, size, orientation, crop, quantity, and price the client chose.
GalleryDock workflow
Build the buyer journey around the approved photograph
The client should not have to translate a familiar image into product codes in a separate ordering conversation.
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Curate the final gallery
Publish the photographs approved for viewing and purchase so the client begins from finished work rather than production files.
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Control the visible catalog
Activate only the digital and print products, sizes, and selling prices that fit the assignment and the intended client experience.
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Preview the visual result
Use orientation, crop, safe area, and room scale to help the client understand how the selected photograph behaves as a product.
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Complete cart and checkout
Keep the product decision connected to the selected image through the cart and payment path instead of rebuilding the order by email.
Stack decision
Choose tools from the responsibilities you actually need
A useful comparison avoids vague claims that one brand is universally better than another.
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List the client-facing needs
Decide whether you need branded presentation, private links, favorites, comments, downloads, digital sales, print sales, and a visible checkout.
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List the production needs
Document the products, materials, color requirements, file preparation, packaging, destinations, and service expectations your production partner must support.
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Verify current first-party facts
Check the provider's current official product, software, region, and ordering information before promising a specific integration or fulfillment route.
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Test the complete handoff
Use a real photograph to verify how the client choice becomes an unambiguous order and how the next production step receives the required information.
Comparison
Compare responsibilities instead of brand labels
The useful question is which part of the photographer-to-client-to-production journey each system covers.
| Approach | Best for | Tradeoff |
|---|---|---|
| Professional photo printing service | Product manufacturing and lab ordering | May not define the complete branded client sales journey |
| Client gallery and shop | Presentation, selection, previews, cart, and checkout | Is not automatically every photographer's chosen production service |
| All-in-one studio platform | Broader business administration | May add complexity beyond the gallery sale |
| Manual email workflow | One exceptional custom request | Requires image and product details to be transcribed |
| Portfolio website store | Public art catalogs | May not match private client-specific galleries |
Portrait studio reorder
A client opens a finished portrait, compares the available wall products, and checks out without sending an image number and size request by email.
Wedding print follow-up
A couple revisits delivered photographs and chooses digital files or prints from the same recognizable gallery context.
Fine art series
A photographer presents a curated collection, limits the catalog, and uses crop and room preview to support a deliberate wall-art decision.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about this workflow
Is GalleryDock the same kind of service as Loxley Colour?
No. Loxley Colour presents itself as a professional photo printing service, while GalleryDock focuses on the client-facing gallery, selection, sales, and checkout workflow.
Does GalleryDock integrate with Loxley Colour?
This guide does not claim a Loxley Colour integration or partnership. Current provider and GalleryDock capabilities must be verified from first-party information.
What does GalleryDock handle for the client?
It can connect the approved photograph to digital and print choices, products, sizes, prices, previews, cart, and checkout in the gallery context.
Can clients buy digital files and physical prints?
Yes. GalleryDock supports digital sales and physical print sales when the relevant products are activated for the gallery.
Why separate client-gallery and production responsibilities?
The separation makes it clear who presents the work, captures the client's choice, prepares the order information, manufactures the product, and handles delivery.
Does this guide claim GalleryDock is better than Loxley Colour?
No. It explains different workflow roles and avoids unsupported claims about superiority, feature parity, integration, products, or service coverage.
Related resources
Photo printing software for photographersMap editing, gallery selling, order preparation, and production across the software stack.Fine art print lab workflowOrganize the handoff from gallery order to the chosen production partner.Sell framed canvas printsSee how a concrete wall product is presented and ordered from a client image.Prepare photos for printingSeparate creative source preparation from order-specific print-file generation.Avoid color casts in black-and-white printsAdd a neutral black-and-white source and proofing workflow to the production handoff.
Pricing
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- 3 galleries
- 1 GB storage
- Photos & videos
- Image upload: 50 MB
- Video upload: 750 MB
- Your own shop for digital sales
- Sell print products in your shop
- 15% shop fee per sale
- Your own profile in client galleries
- Password-protect client galleries
- Use your own logo as a watermark
- Let clients select images and mark favorites
- Control photo and video downloads
- Embed galleries on your own website
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Ideal for photographers who regularly deliver client galleries.
- Unlimited galleries
- 200 GB storage
- Photos & videos
- Image upload: 100 MB
- Video upload: 15 GB
- Your own shop for digital sales
- Sell print products in your shop
- Only 10% shop fee per sale
- Your own profile in client galleries
- Password-protect client galleries
- Use your own logo as a watermark
- Let clients select images and mark favorites
- Control photo and video downloads
- Embed galleries on your own website
- Hide GalleryDock branding
- Use your own logo in galleries
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EUR 348 billed yearly. plus VAT
For photographers managing many projects, videos and growing storage.
- Unlimited galleries
- 1 TB storage
- Photos & videos
- Image upload: 100 MB
- Video upload: 30 GB
- Your own shop for digital sales
- Sell print products in your shop
- Only 5% shop fee per sale
- Your own profile in client galleries
- Password-protect client galleries
- Use your own logo as a watermark
- Let clients select images and mark favorites
- Control photo and video downloads
- Embed galleries on your own website
- Hide GalleryDock branding
- Use your own logo in galleries
For regular client delivery
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Use GalleryDock to present approved photographs, control the visible offer, and test the complete buyer path while keeping production responsibilities explicit.
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