Put one code on the wall, or send one link. Guests scan it, take a selfie in their phone’s browser, and see only the photos they are in, not a folder of everyone else’s. Weddings, races, conferences, parties: the code works the same way at all of them.
The guest points their phone camera at the poster, or taps the gallery link you sent. The gallery opens in the phone’s browser: no app to install and no account to create. If the gallery is private, they enter the PIN printed on the poster first.
The guest takes a quick selfie with the live camera. It is matched against the faces in that one event only, and the selfie itself is not stored.
Only the photos the guest appears in are shown, from every folder in the event. They download them one at a time or as a ZIP, at the size the photographer chose.
A shared album makes every guest scroll through everyone else’s pictures. Here the code opens a gallery that searches by face, so a guest at a 3,000-photo event sees the forty they are in. Upload more later and the same link shows them; guests who opt in are emailed when new photos of them arrive.
Switch on guest uploads for the event and the same code collects the photos on guests’ phones too. A guest adds them from their own photos page after the selfie, and nothing appears in the gallery until the photographer approves it. Approved photos are indexed by face like the rest, so everyone in them finds them.
A black square taped to a wall tells a guest nothing, least of all that they will be asked for a selfie. Every event comes with a ready-made poster in two sizes: A4 for printing, and 1080×1080 for chats and social posts. It carries:
The code and the link open the same gallery. Use the code where people are standing in front of something, and the link where they are reading a message.
| Where guests are | What to share |
|---|---|
| At the venue | The A4 poster: entrance, tables, registration desk, photo booth or finish line. |
| Group chats and stories | The 1080×1080 square poster, for a WhatsApp status, an Instagram post or the event group chat. |
| After the event | The gallery link, sent by WhatsApp or email from the Share tab once the photos are up. |
| Anywhere else | Copy the plain link and paste it wherever you need it: a newsletter, a website, a thank-you card. |
See which one worked. Links from the poster, the WhatsApp message and the email message are each tagged, so the event’s analytics show how many visits came from the QR code and how many from each message. If the QR number is low, the poster was too small or in the wrong place.
Print one copy before the event and scan it from where a guest would stand or sit. A code printed too small, in low contrast or on glossy paper under stage lights is the usual reason a sign fails.
A private gallery opens only with a 6-digit PIN, and the poster prints it under the code. Anyone who can see the poster can use it, so keep posters with a PIN inside the venue and the square version in private chats rather than on a public profile. If a PIN travels further than you meant, regenerate it and the old one stops working.
Seeing the gallery is not the same as seeing everyone’s photos: a guest’s selfie returns only the photos they appear in, and it is matched against that one event, never a search across the internet. The selfie image itself is not stored.
The code works the same everywhere; where you put it and who scans it changes.
A poster on every table, and the same code collects the guests’ own phone photos.
A QR at the finish area and race-pack pickup; athletes find every frame from the course.
A private, company-branded gallery, with the PIN in the internal announcement.
A QR on the screens between sessions; attendees find themselves across every room.
A card on the cake table, and the square poster in the party group chat.
Signage and screens across the site, for a crowd too big to sort by hand.
A QR sign is the easiest way to get wedding guests to the gallery. Whether they find their photos once they are there depends on what the code opens.
The photographer covers the day; the guests cover everything the photographer could not be there for. One QR code can bring both sets into the same gallery.
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A QR code that opens an event’s photo gallery, printed at the venue or posted where guests will see it. Guests scan it with their phone camera instead of typing a link. With FotoMe AI, the gallery it opens searches by face, so each guest takes a selfie and sees only the photos they appear in.
No. The code opens the gallery in the phone’s browser. Guests take a selfie there and see their photos, with no app to install and no account to create.
The code holds the gallery’s link, so it works for as long as the gallery does: until the link’s expiry date if you set one, and until the end of the event’s retention period. The link itself does not change when you upload more photos.
Yes. The gallery link and its QR code exist as soon as you create the event, so you can print posters in advance. Guests who scan later see whatever has been uploaded by then.
Yes. The gallery link is an ordinary web address, so any QR generator can encode it. The code on the FotoMe AI poster is tagged, though, so its scans show up as QR visits in your event analytics; a code made from the plain copied link counts as a direct visit.
Yes, when you switch on guest uploads for the event (they are off by default). Guests add photos from their own photos page after the selfie, in JPG or PNG, and nothing appears in the gallery until the photographer approves it.
Make the gallery private and it opens only with a 6-digit PIN, which the poster prints under the code. Anyone who can see the poster can use that PIN, so keep it to posters inside the venue and private chats. If it leaks, regenerate it and the old one stops working.
Nothing on the guest’s side: the QR code is the gallery link in a form a camera can read. Use the code where people are standing in front of something, and the link where they are reading a message. Both open the same gallery.
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