Learn how to use Snapshot Albums!
To create an account, simply click or tap the Sign Up button at the top of the page, or create an account here.
You will be prompted to connect your Google™ account. Select the account you'd like to connect for your event.
This account's Google Drive™ will be used to store the event's photos.
Allow all requested permissions for Snapshot Albums to work correctly.
Permissions can be revoked anytime in your Google™ account's third-party apps and services page.
Once you sign up, you'll see the User Dashboard. From the Dashboard Navigation menu, select "Create Album."
Enter your Event Title, the folder name you'd like to appear in Google Drive™ for your event, and the Event Date.
Click or tap "Create" when you're done.
You'll be redirected back to the user dashboard to see your new album listed.
Note: Your Google Drive™ folder is created once you make your album in Snapshot Albums.
After you create an album, you can see it on the dashboard. To upload a test image, click or tap the "Guest Link" button on your album.
This copies the link to upload to your album. This will also be the URL you share with your guests when you're ready!
Open a new tab or window and paste the link in the URL bar to load your personalized upload page.
Select "Browse Files," choose your test image, then click or tap "Upload" when you're ready.
Go back to the user dashboard and click or tap on the "Go" button under the Drive™ Album column.
This takes you directly to your Google Drive™ folder associated with the album you created.
This is also where the photos your guests upload will go. This is a private link that only you can see and access.
Confirm the photo you uploaded as a test shows in your Google Drive™ folder.
On the user dashboard you can download your album QR code for use on event flyers, table tents or any other printing use.
Once you click the "Download" button under the Guest QR Code column the QR code will download on your device automatically.
You'll find your QR code file as a PNG image within the downloads section of your device's file browser.
Note: Paid users can access Canva™ templates to use with their QR codes on the "Account" section of the Dashboard Navigation menu.
This makes it easy to customize your flyer for the event!
Paid users have access to over 10 pre-made Canva™ design templates! They are found on your "Account" page on the dashboard navigation menu.
These designs are fully editable and have space for you to place your album QR code so your guests can easily scan and upload their event photos.
Become a paid user for $99 a year and get access to the Canva™ design templates,
the ability to create unlimited albums, and enable sharing on your albums for your guests to see the uploaded photos!
Once your album has been created, you can add a personalized background image to the image upload page your guests see. From the user dashboard,
click on "Upload Image" in the dashboard navigation menu. Click or tap "Browse" and select the image you'd like as your backgroud.
Next, select the album to apply the background to. Select "Upload" when ready.
Test this by viewing your Guest Link on the Dashboard.
Paid users have the ability to enable sharing on their gallery, giving their guests the ability to see all the images that were uploaded to their albums.
From the user dashboard, click or tap "Enable" on the Gallery column of your album.
You will be redirected to the Snapshot Albums Premium payment page. Once payment is complete, the gallery is enabled. Click or tap the "Gallery" button and the gallery page for that album will open in a new tab.
Copy and paste the link in a message to your guests or use on social media to share the images.
Editing an album's title, folder name or date is not currently available. Create a new album (paid users) or delete your album from the dashaboard and create a new album with the correct details.
From the user dashboard, click or tap "Delete" on the album you'd like to remove.
Note: Deleting an album in Snapshot Albums does not delete it from your Google Drive™
Deleting a photo from a public gallery (paid users) is simple! If a photo is removed from the associated Google Drive™ folder, it will be removed from the gallery view.
If you'd like to keep a copy of the image before deleting, download the photo from your Google Drive™ folder first, then delete it.
Note: Access your album Google Drive™ folder on the user dashboard.
Cancel your recurring payment on your Account page. From the user dashboard, click or tap "Account" from the dashboard navigation menu. Then select the "Cancel Subscription Payment" button. When the button reads "Reactivate Subscription Payment" your payment has been cancelled and will not renew. When the button reads "Cancel Subscription Payment" your recurring payment is active and you will be billed annually on the date noted above the button.
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