How to Make MONEY Selling Prints as a Wedding Photographer - Pic-Time Guide for Beginners 2022

[@carolynparr2727]

This was so incredibly helpful!!! Magic, you truly are magic. Made my understanding of Pic-Time so much better :-)

[@TaylorJacksonPhoto]

Hi Magic 🍕🍕🍕

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Hello Pizza Delivery guy. One capricciosa for me!

[@kiabphan1177]

What settings do you use to export photos from Lightroom then use pictime to deliver? I have offered prints yet so I export for social media

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

You need to export full resolution files, and as for colours - sRGB is fine!

[@Luca_Pelucchi]

Hi! Can you explain how do you deal with tax outside pic-time? Thank you!

[@eike.zender]

Thank you again for your informative content ❤️ but how do you deal with different ICC profiles depending on the photo lab and their different printing settings or paper profiles?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Wait, what do you mean? Do you embed specific color profiles before sending to lab? I remember years ago I would just load profiles to preview in LR, but haven't done that in a loooong while. Now I export everything in sRGB to look good on most screens and Pic-Time does recognise if you use sRGB or Adobe RGB, so then the lab also knows what's the color space you used.

[@eike.zender]

@@MagicWeddingPhotographer maybe my workflow is wrong, but when I edit my photos in order to get them printed, I load the specific ICC profile of the paper I'm going to use. The photo lab where I print my albums here in Germany, provides specific ICC profiles for specific paper. I load them in LR where I fine adjust the pictures, as the soft proof view in LR shows me those color areas which are not covered with the printer/paper. Those adjusted pictures I will send to the lab as regular jpeg files - so nothing is embeded.

[@eike.zender]

As far as I know, monitors can output more colors than a printer. So by having - let's say - 1000 shades of green in your jpg, but the printer/paper can only reproduce - let's say - 100 shades of green, you have to rely on the decision of the printing process. But I'm not a professional, maybe I'm talking BS :)

[@peterkenyonjr]

Great video. One thing I don't understand... why would you have to give your credit card to cover the costs of the things that your clients are buying? Aren't the costs covered when they check out of your store using their own payment method?

[@boyantrifonov]

Who are your clients in the case of a wedding? Just the Bride and Groom? Or do you get e-mails from guests during the wedding reception?

[@PabloPuigGC]

Once they pay for digital photos, where does the money go?

[@regnartoja4378]

Teraz by się przydało wideo co dalej jak klient złoży zamówienia. Jak to procesować Zrobiłem wg Twoich wskazówek. Klient zamówił kilka różnych rozmiarów i produktów. I co dalej? W Cart mam co innego, w orders co innego. Jak się w tym połapać? :)

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

No to sukces :) ale carts cię nie interesuje, bo to jest podglad niesfinalizowanych koszyków. Wiec finalnie masz to co w zamówieniu - jak ustawiłeś snap albo nphoto jako LAB to powinno lecieć samo do niego :)

[@regnartoja4378]

@@MagicWeddingPhotographer a to byłoby super. Dzięki za wyjaśnienie. Widzę, że mój paypal przesłał automatycznie dla pic-time kwotę równą wartości zamówień. Ale w nPhoto w koszyku nigdzie tego nie widzę. Czyli rozumiem, że to dzieje się poza panelem nphoto i już nie mam do tego później wglądu?

[@MauryBallstein-go4ne]

Thank for basically letting us know that pictime is one of the most expensive and not so user friendly platforms to order prints from.

[@blackwidowofnorway]

I love Pic-time but I still don't understand why people would want to buy prints with 150-250% markup when they can save that money and basically order somewhere else. Most wedding photogs offer hi res files and full printing rights, so it's just a matter of 'convenience' which comes quite costly in the end. What am I missing?

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

Hey! Yeah, I feel you, but also - there's multiple reasons. One of them would be that in many countries professional labs only serve pro photo customers, meaning your clients are not able to print professional grade products. Most of the times when I see my Clients printing on their own from hi-res files, the prints are cheap, colors are off. When they order trough you and professional lab, there is almost zero risk of low quality or colours. And also - just like you said, it's just super convenient, click in the gallery, pick photos, pick products and that's it!

[@blackwidowofnorway]

@@MagicWeddingPhotographer ah that didn't occur to me at all - definitely makes sense, and a good reasoning to give to the clients. Thank you for replying! P.S. love your channel, the 5 minutes challenges are my all time favorites. Hope you'll do more of those in the future :)

[@daylit88]

But the offer is only for 15% where do I find the 25%? 😅 Many Thanks!!!

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

blackfriday.pic-time.com there’s 25% yearly plans for precessional and advanced!

[@trancer03]

I been using pic time for over a year and nobody ever bought anything. The only feedback i heard is that the stuff in the shop is SUPER EXPENSIVE. So its been completely unusable except for delivering the images digitally.

[@MagicWeddingPhotographer]

How did you set up store? Did you set the prices according to your market? Did you choose local labs? Did you use any marketing / sales automations? And lastly - did you promote the products from your store outside of pic-time?

[@trancer03]

@@MagicWeddingPhotographer I activated the default pricelist store with all the products active. Left all the products in it the way they are. No clue what super expensive means. It's just the feedback I got from my clients. I never ran a store so I don't know how much something should cost for me to earn a profit after taxes etc so I left everything at default. I am scared to advertise the store beyond having it active for the clients when they get their gallery delivered because if it's really super expensive like they telling me it would hurt my business.