How to send high-resolution photos to a client
The reliable way to send high-resolution photos to a client is a private gallery link where they download the full-quality files themselves — not an email attachment (which bounces over ~25 MB) and not a transfer service that expires in a week. Email caps kill it instantly; transfer links rot; a proper client-gallery delivery gives the client full-resolution downloads that stay available for years.
Why email and transfer links fail for hi-res
- Email attachments are capped at roughly 25 MB by most providers — one RAW-quality JPEG can blow that, let alone a set.
- WeTransfer / transfer links work once, then expire (often 7 days), and the client has to download everything at once before it disappears.
- Cloud folder shares (Drive, Dropbox) aren’t built for photo delivery: no branding, download-quota walls, and clients frequently get “storage full” or permission errors.
None of these give the client a calm, branded place to come back to.
The reliable method
- Export at full resolution. Deliver full-size JPEG or HEIC converted to sRGB. Colour management matters — without it the client sees shifted colours on their screen that you never exported. A good platform serves a fast web-sized preview and keeps the full-resolution original for download.
- Upload to a gallery with verification. On a large set this is where delivery quietly breaks. Use resumable, checksum-verified uploads so a dropped connection resumes and every file is provably intact before it’s marked done — no silently truncated files.
- Send one private link. The client opens it in a tap (no account, optionally PIN-gated), and downloads the full-resolution files as many times as they need. No bandwidth throttling, no expiry surprise.
- Let them download all, or pick. Whole-gallery download for the full set; individual downloads for favourites. Either way it’s the full-quality file, not a compressed preview.
What “high resolution” should mean at delivery
Deliver the resolution you exported — don’t let the platform silently downsize the download. Check that the downloaded file’s pixel dimensions match your export, and that the colour profile is intact. If a platform can’t tell you what it does to your files on the way to the client, assume it’s doing something.
CuratePics delivers full-resolution, colour-managed files over a private link, with unlimited client downloads and no throttling. See how it works →