Working document
The Gallery to Print Delivery Checklist
Every step a solo portrait studio should hit between the pre session conversation and the framed print reaching a client wall.
Free resources
Resources for Portrait Studios That Sell Prints
Practical tools for the stretch between the shutter and the framed print, built for photographers running a studio alone.
Everything here is written for one kind of reader: the portrait photographer who shoots the session, culls it, sells it, orders the prints, inspects the box and answers the phone when a frame arrives late. That operator does not need a general small business guide. They need numbers about lab margin and a sequence that keeps a 20x30 from being cropped wrong.
The calculators run in your browser and store nothing. The comparisons name real products and stay at the level of fit rather than inventing details about anyone else's plans. The checklist is a working document meant to sit beside the monitor through senior season, not a brochure.
Free tools
Free Calculators for Solo Portrait Studios
Run your own numbers on print order margin and on the hours lost collecting favorites, using defaults drawn from how a working portrait studio actually operates.
Comparisons
ProofRoom Compared With the Other Proofing Galleries
ProofRoom is the proofing gallery for a one person portrait studio that wants favorites, print ordering and delivery living inside a single client link.
Main guide
What a 20x30 Wall Portrait Costs to Produce, Line by Line
It settles what a 20x30 wall portrait actually costs a solo studio to produce and deliver, from lab paper and framing to card fees, sales tax and your own retouching hours.
Magazine
The Proof Sheet
Craft, pricing and paperwork for solo portrait studios, from lab paper and cropping to sales tax and print orders.
About
Who writes all of this
A short page on who writes this material, from senior and family sessions and wall portrait price lists to pro lab orders, and why ProofRoom stops at the proof gallery instead of trying to run the rest of your studio.
Keep the free material, look at the gallery separately
The calculators, the comparisons and the delivery checklist stay open whether or not you ever open an account, and there is nothing gated behind a call. When you want that sequence running without you, a demo shows one link carrying favorites, crop previews at 16x20 and 20x30, and a finished print order into your lab queue. Bring a senior session you have already shot and we will use that one.