The workflow
Upload, approve, get paid. The only creative decision left to you is whether the draft is good enough to send.
You, ten minutes
Drag in the finished event gallery — the same export you'd hand a client. We generate the display and print sizes, and drop the duplicates and the frames you clearly rejected.
We keep derivatives, not your originals: a thumbnail, a preview, and a print-resolution file. Your archive stays yours. Keeping originals here is a paid add-on, and it's off unless you turn it on.
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Us, a few minutes
Hickory reads every frame and builds a full book — cover, sequence, pacing, and page count. It arrives finished, not as a blank template waiting for you.
Then you edit like an editor, not a designer. Swap a photo, reorder a spread, change the cover. Most studios touch three or four pages and publish. If the draft is wrong, tell us why — that feedback trains the engine.
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Your client, on their phone
Send one link. Your client browses on their phone, favorites what they love, and buys the book without making an account. Everything they see carries your studio's name.
We print and ship straight to them. You pay the print cost, keep the rest, and never touch a box. Nothing in the package points back to us.
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Straight talk
Hickory books are press-printed casewrap hardcovers on archival paper. They are not lay-flat flush-mount albums, and we won't market them as such. Sell this beside your flagship album, not in place of it. Studios that pitch it that way sell more of both.
Cover
Casewrap hardcover
Premium press, archival paper
Binding
Standard bound, not lay-flat
Turnaround
Printed and mailed in 7–14 days
You don't need a new shoot to judge this. Upload a gallery you already sent, and look at what comes back.
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