AccioPix Blog

Getting event photos to the people in them. Notes for hosts, photographers, and anyone stuck with a 900-photo Google Drive folder.

The words 18,814 photos. One old laptop.
October 25, 2026
Privacy

Immich Setup on an Old Laptop: Moving Off Google Photos

I moved 18,814 photos off Google onto an old laptop running Immich, with Claude Code doing the setup: Takeout import, Cloudflare Tunnel, phone backup and a nightly backup to a second SSD.

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A guest selfie beside the wedding photos she appears in
October 24, 2026
Weddings

Questions to Ask a Wedding Photographer Before You Book

Twenty-three questions on price, portfolio, contract, backups and delivery, plus how to choose and whether to tip.

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A guest selfie beside the group photos she appears in
October 24, 2026
Weddings

Wedding Group Photos: The Family Photo List, in Order

Ten groups in shooting order, three minutes each, one relative calling names, and enough frames that nobody blinks.

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A guest selfie beside the wedding photos she appears in
October 24, 2026
Photographers

Photography Quotation Format: A Free Template to Copy

The thirteen lines a wedding quote needs, a worked example, GST and copyright for India, and a blank template to copy.

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A grid of wedding photos with the keepers in colour and the rest greyed out
October 24, 2026
Comparisons

Aftershoot Pricing 2026, Against Imagen and Narrative

Every culling plan's price, read from each vendor's own page in October 2026, and a free culler that runs in your browser.

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The words 12x36 is the open sheet
October 24, 2026
Weddings

Wedding Album Size: Karizma 12x36, Sheets and Prices

Open sheet or closed page, sheets or spreads, and the pixels a 12x36 sheet needs, with printers' own prices.

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A grid of wedding photos with one guest's photos in colour and the rest greyed out
October 24, 2026
Weddings

Google Photos Shared Album for a Wedding: Setup and Real Limits

What Google's 20,000-photo album can and can't do at a wedding, how iCloud compares after iOS 27, and when one selfie beats scrolling.

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The words 300 DPI is not a size
October 24, 2026
Free tools

What Is DPI? How to Check DPI, and What 300 DPI Means

A 300 DPI tag means nothing without pixels. How to check it on any device, and the pixels each print size needs.

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The words One photo. Six files.
October 24, 2026
Free tools

JPEG vs PNG vs HEIC vs WebP: One Photo Saved Six Ways

One photo saved as PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIC and AVIF at the same measured quality: file sizes, transparency, what opens where, and which to use.

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The words Seven countries. Seven rulebooks.
October 24, 2026
Free tools

Can You Smile in a Passport Photo? The Rules by Country

Only for the US. Glasses, background colour, head coverings, retouching and babies: the official rules for seven countries.

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The words Photo to PDF. Already on your iPhone.
October 24, 2026
Free tools

How to Convert a Photo or HEIC File to PDF on iPhone, Mac and Windows

Print, Files, Preview, Books and Shortcuts on iOS 27, page order and size, and a free HEIC to PDF converter that never uploads.

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The words Shoot raw. Deliver JPEG.
October 24, 2026
Photographers

RAW vs JPEG: What a RAW File Is, and When to Shoot It

12-bit against 8-bit, Nikon's own file sizes, what NEF, ARW, CR2 and DNG are, and how to open or convert them free.

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A grid of wedding photos with one guest's photos in colour and the rest greyed out
October 24, 2026
Weddings

Candid vs Traditional Wedding Photography: The Styles, Explained

Candid, traditional, documentary, fine art: what each style means, how to brief your photographer, and why candid coverage runs to thousands of frames.

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A branded QR card for Emma & James on a reception table, beside the selfie page it opens on a phone
October 23, 2026
Free tools

Do QR Codes Expire? Static vs Dynamic QR Codes, and Why Some Stop Working

Static QR codes never expire; dynamic ones stop when the trial or plan ends. What six generators say in their own FAQs, and when a dynamic code is worth paying for.

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The watermark maker with a logo in the corner of two wedding photos
October 15, 2026
Free tools

How to Watermark Photos: Text, Logo, and Where to Put It

Size, opacity and placement for delivered photos and proofs, why the same mark on every photo can be removed, and the credit that survives a crop.

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The free video compressor fitting a phone video under a target size
October 15, 2026
WhatsApp

WhatsApp Video Compression: Size Limits and HD, Explained

The 64 MB and 2 GB limits from WhatsApp's own help pages, 480p against 720p HD, and four ways to send a long video without the blur.

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The free EXIF viewer showing a photo's camera details and GPS position
October 15, 2026
Privacy

EXIF Data: What Your Photos Reveal, and How to Remove It

Camera, time and often your exact location sit inside every photo. Who can read them, and how to view, edit or strip them free.

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A grid of event photos with one guest's photos in colour and the rest greyed out
September 4, 2026
Photographers

What is photo culling? Meaning, ratios and how it's done

What culling means, how many frames a wedding really loses, what gets rejected, and the two-pass method that makes it fast.

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A grid of event photos with one guest's photos in colour and the rest greyed out
September 4, 2026
Photographers

How to cull photos in Lightroom Classic, fast

Embedded previews, the flag keys, Compare and Survey, Refine Photos, and how AI culling tools hand their picks back into your catalog.

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The AccioPix upload page with an event album filling with photos
September 3, 2026
AccioPix

One event, two photographers: how collaborators work

Invite a second shooter with one link. Their photos land in your event, on your credits, with a budget you set.

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The same photo before and after, side by side
August 2, 2026
AccioPix

How AccioPix Compresses Photos — Original Resolution, Near-Lossless

Our compression methodology, documented: event uploads keep every pixel you shot. Exact quality settings, RAW and HEIC handling, and what "near-lossless" actually means.

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Under 16 MB.
July 20, 2026
Weddings

How to Send Large Wedding Video Files Without Killing the Quality

Your wedding film is 38 GB and WhatsApp caps out at 2. The best free WeTransfer alternatives — SendGB and Toffee Share — to send it at full quality.

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The same photo before and after, side by side
July 6, 2026
Free tools

How to Compress 1,000 Event Photos in Your Browser (No Uploads)

Compress an entire shoot locally — no uploading gigabytes to a random website, no paywalls, and no third-party server holding a wedding album.

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A parent's selfie beside the birthday party photos of her and her son that it found
October 23, 2026
Events

Birthday Party Photos: Every Family Gets Their Own Set

Upload once, print a QR card, and each guest finds the photos they're in with a selfie. No group chat full of other people's children.

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A QR card for Emma & James on a reception table, beside the selfie page it opens on a phone
October 23, 2026
Weddings

Ring Ceremony Photos: What to Shoot, Who Gets Them

The moments worth planning at a ring ceremony, a second shooter in the same album, and one QR card so every guest finds their own photos with a selfie.

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A guest's selfie beside a grid of the photos she appears in
May 20, 2026
Events

Graduation Photo Delivery is a Logistical Nightmare: Here is How to Automate It

Delivering stage photos to 1,000 graduates is a mess. Learn how to automate photo delivery using facial recognition instead of manual sorting.

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The same photo before and after, side by side
March 16, 2026
Free tools

Free Photography Tools That Actually Run Locally

Stop uploading gigabytes of event photos to shady online tools. Here are 4 browser-based tools to cull, compress, and convert your photos 100% locally.

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Sorted by sharpness.
March 16, 2026
Free tools

How to Batch Remove Blurry Photos Without Paying for Software

Score a whole shoot for sharpness in the browser, keep the keepers, and know which blurry photos can still be rescued.

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A grid of event photos with one guest's photos in colour and the rest greyed out
March 16, 2026
Free tools

How to Automatically Pick the Best Photos from a Large Album

Shooting thousands of photos but only need 100 for the client's physical album? This free automated tool ranks and selects your best photos in seconds.

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300 iPhone photos, to JPG.
March 16, 2026
Free tools

How to Convert HEIC to JPG in Bulk on iPhone, Mac and Windows

The iPhone transfer setting, Preview on Mac, the two Windows codecs, and a free browser converter that never uploads.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
June 25, 2026
Comparisons

Pixieset Price and Plans in 2026, and the Guests

Client galleries and print stores vs WhatsApp + AI selfie delivery to every guest. Which fits how you actually deliver event photos?

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
June 25, 2026
Comparisons

AccioPix vs Foto Owl: The Best Foto Owl Alternative for Event Photo Delivery

WhatsApp + AI selfie delivery to every guest vs gallery links and paid plans. Which fits how you deliver event photos?

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
June 25, 2026
Comparisons

AccioPix vs Premagic: The Best Premagic Alternative for Event Photo Delivery

WhatsApp-first guest delivery vs a conference/corporate event platform. A simpler Premagic alternative for weddings and events.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
June 25, 2026
Comparisons

AccioPix vs Algomage: The Best Algomage Alternative for Event Photo Delivery

Looking for an Algomage alternative? WhatsApp + AI selfie delivery, pay-per-photo, no subscription.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
June 25, 2026
Comparisons

AccioPix vs Memzo: The Best Memzo Alternative for Event Photo Delivery

WhatsApp + AI selfie delivery vs a browser-based gallery. A pay-per-photo Memzo alternative.

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A grid of event photos with one guest's photos in colour and the rest greyed out
March 1, 2026
Weddings

How to Select the 100 Best Wedding Photos for Your Album

Choosing from a gallery of 3,000 is awful. A way to pick the hundred that belong in the album without decision fatigue.

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₹0.20 a photo. beside an album of event photos
March 1, 2026
Comparisons

Samaro AI vs AccioPix: Pricing, App and Delivery Compared

Samaro\'s yearly storage plans against ₹0.20 a photo, and what each one actually puts in a guest\'s WhatsApp.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
March 1, 2026
Comparisons

AccioPix vs Kwikpic: Subscription Price, Free Plan and Delivery Compared

Kwikpic's 2026 plans from ₹3,490 a year against ₹0.20 a photo, the break-even point, and how each gets photos to guests.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
March 1, 2026
Comparisons

AccioPix vs Kamero: Which AI Photo Sharing Platform Should You Use?

App-first vs WhatsApp-first, opaque pricing vs transparent pay-per-photo, and how each handles a guest's selfie. Everything you need to decide.

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The AccioPix upload page with an event album filling with photos
May 29, 2025
AccioPix

Introducing AccioPix

Say goodbye to complicated apps and hello to instant photo delivery directly to guests' phones via WhatsApp.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
November 25, 2025
Photographers

How to Get Clients for Photography With Instant Delivery

Word of mouth is still how photographers get clients. How instant delivery turns every wedding guest into a referral.

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A WhatsApp chat on a phone showing delivered event photos
May 29, 2025
Weddings

Photo Sharing Apps for Weddings: Why Guests Ignore Them

Wedding photo apps lose guests at the download and the signup. What to look for instead, and the no-app WhatsApp fix.

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Share it. Don’t store it.
November 15, 2025
Events

Google Storage Full? What to Delete and What Google One Costs

The 15 GB covers Gmail, Drive and Photos. What to clear first, Google One prices in India, and how to share albums without storing them.

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