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Guides to selling event photos, from the QR code at the venue to getting paid directly, and notes on how we build sellphotos.online.
How to sell event photos online: the QR code and selfie method
Guests can't buy photos they can't find. Here's a five-step way to get every guest to their own photos on the day, and get paid directly.
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What event photo platforms really take from your sales
Commission, card fees and flat yearly plans, worked through at $2,000, $5,000 and $15,000 of sales a year.
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Sports day, annual day, graduation: how schools can get every family their photos (and raise money doing it)
A QR code at the gate, a quick photo on the parent's phone, payment straight to the school or its photographer. A practical guide with a safeguarding checklist.
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Face search at events: what to tell guests, and when to turn it off
Selfie search helps every guest find their photos. Here's what actually happens to a face, what to say on the poster, and the events where you should switch it off.
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How we built selfie search for event photos on Cloudflare (and kept the originals out of it)
Browser uploads straight to R2, a container with no network draws the watermark, and the face service only ever sees what the public sees.
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Convocation photos in a day: how colleges can get every graduate their stage photo
Thousands of graduates, one QR code on the stage screen, a selfie, a UPI payment, and the full-size original ready to download by the next evening. Here's how to run it, and how a student photography club can run it as a fundraiser.
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Watermarking 200 photos in the browser, with nothing uploaded
One SVG renderer shared by a server container and a free browser tool, fonts inlined into the SVG, a canvas per photo, and a zip writer in a few dozen lines.
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Got a QR code at an event? Here's how to find your photos with a selfie
A two-minute guide for guests: scan, take a selfie, see only the photos you're in, and download them once you've paid the photographer.
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Notes on generating QR codes for print: error correction, logo holes and quiet zones
What we settled on for QR codes that end up on posters, table cards and phone screens.
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How to sell sports and race photos the same day: a QR at the finish line and a selfie
For photographers who shoot fun runs, marathons, cycling events, school sports meets and local leagues. What works, what doesn't (helmets and sunglasses), and a same-day workflow.
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7 ways to get event photos to your guests in 2026, compared
From a free Drive link to face-search stores: how guests find themselves, whether they need an app, where the money goes, and what each costs.
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Your attendees want their photos. Here's how to give them out, and turn a cost line into a service
A playbook for conference, expo, festival and cultural-show organisers: QR codes on lanyards, selfie search, sponsor-paid free downloads, and numbers you can show sponsors.
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You already shoot local events for free. Here's how to start getting paid for it.
A practical path from hobby photographer to paid event photographer: permission, pricing, and one QR code.
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