I’ve never really been one to embrace change readily- change usually means struggle, and call me crazy, but I don’t like struggling. PASS, the system I use to deliver digital negatives to my clients, first made its debut in 2011, but being the headstrong individual that I was, I first just shrugged it off. My DVDs were getting me by just fine, thank you very much. Well, that’s actually a lie- DVDs were killing my soul, slivers at a time- they took forever to burn, forever to package, and it took me fo-EVAH to get to the post office.

Cue: PASS! I finally decided to give it a try last fall and uploading my images to PASS has quickly become one of my favorite parts of my workflow. With the new updates, the galleries themselves are BEAUTIFUL. So much more of an attractive to way to display my gorgeous brides and handsome grooms than a DVD could ever do. PASS makes it faster for my clients to receive their images- as soon as I’ve uploaded an event, the images are available for viewing, download, and sharing with friends and family. Again, not really something a DVD could ever do without inviting all 150 of your wedding guests over for a viewing party.

But there was still one small thing that felt like PASS was missing- the ability to provide my clients with gorgeous, high-quality prints so that my brides and grooms weren’t having to take their images to (*shudder*) Wal-Mart. The gurus at PASS listened to what we were asking for, and as of this past weekend, I’m SO stoked that my brides and grooms will now be able to order professional lab prints directly within their galleries! Part of the mentality behind PASS is simplifying lives, and because I want it to be EASY for my couples and their families to fill their homes with prints, top-of-the-industry prints are available through PASS at low prices. How low, you ask? This low: 4×6’s- $1.00, 5×7’s- $2.00, and 8×10’s- $4.00. See?! Isn’t that easy?

And the process is simple as well! Here’s an example using William & Meg’s PASS gallery.

The gallery itself before any prints have been ordered- isn’t it pretty?

To start off, simply select the thumbnail of whichever images you want to order, then click on the icon of a photo at the bottom of the right hand menu.

Choose however many copies of each size you’d like to order…

…and when you click “view cart” it shows only the images you’re ordering, along with the size and quantity of prints. I’ve worked with several image ordering systems before, and this is by FAR the easiest one I’ve ever used.

If you click back over to the gallery as a whole, it denotes which images are already being ordered as prints, so you’re not constantly clicking back over to your shopping cart.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. I believe in prints and I want all of my couples to have their wedding images displayed around their home for years and years to come. Making it easier on them is one of the best ways I can make that happen, so when their children and grandchildren ask to see wedding photos years and year from now, they’re not pulling out this ancient thing called a “dee-vee-dee.”

Happy Wednesday, friends!