Introducing: AI Photo Search for Clients!
We are VERY excited to announce our new AI Photo Search for Clients - the next generation of gallery delivery. This is a project we’ve been working on for a long time, over a year!
Your gallery visitors will now be able to quickly find the images they appear in or that interest them. Enabling every gallery visitor to quickly locate their favorite moments, especially in large event galleries like weddings, has the potential to improve engagement, deliver delight, boost photo sharing, and drive up print sales.
About the Algorithm
Our amazing research team developed a photo searching algorithm, tailored to the needs of professional photography both in terms of quality and privacy.
The person identification was built with your clients in mind, and can event detect artistic photos that are taken from the back of someone when the face is not present. The free text search was planned to be optimized for the most relevant terms in our market, especially weddings. We do not use any 3rd party for image detection, so no image information is ever shared with external organizations or software.
An Innovative Gallery Experience
This new feature will allow clients a quick and efficient way to find photos from within their gallery by searching for people of interest or using keywords.
fINDING THE PEOPLE THEY CARE ABOUT MOST
Once applied to a gallery, all of the people photographed at the event will appear in the search window, and your visitors will simply need to click on their person of interest to find their photos. To make it an even more delightful experience, a suggested people section appears once a selection is made and presents people who frequently appear with that person for a quicker search.
AND THE MOMENTS THEY LOVED
Similar to our recently launched AI Image Filter for photographers, gallery visitors can also use a free text search bar to write what they are looking for in free-form text such as dancing, walking down the aisle, cake, and even pets to get relevant images.
So if you’re a close friend trying to locate a shot of a speech you delivered to share on social media - It will now be on your screen in seconds.
works with any Language
The search will work for any language, and automatically translates to display results. For optimal results, it's better to have the gallery set up in the language of your primary clients.
Increasing the Potential of Every Gallery
More photo sharing
Enabling this search to your galleries considerably raises your reach since visitors are more likely to share their images if they have a quick and easy way to do it. Once visitors select their images, they can share them through a menu that opens up when they click on the Share button. This quick action allows them to send images via email or post them on Facebook.
More Download Opportunities
If your gallery visitors have download permissions, they will get a new download window to indicate if they are interested in downloading the search results. Based on the gallery download settings, visitors can then download web-size images or purchase high-resolution images. They can also review which photos they have already downloaded.
More Print Orders
By finding photos they are in faster than ever, gallery visitors can print their photos with just a few clicks. The results page is integrated with the store to allow for a fast ordering process that goes directly from photo selection to viewing and ordering products.
How to Enable the AI Photo Search for Clients
This new addition will be available only for our Advanced Plan users, but we’re opening it up for everyone to try during the first two weeks of the launch.
You can enable the search for your clients by going to Settings > Preferences and unchecking the "Disable AI Photo Search for gallery visitors'' checkbox.
Once enabled, the search will be available for all uploaded Pic-Time galleries from Sep 1, 2023. It’s important to note that the AI search will not be applied to sensitive galleries (boudoir), and you can opt out of the search on a gallery basis in each gallery’s settings.
For new galleries, you can either disable it before uploading the gallery or create a project template with this already disabled in the settings.
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