PhotoShelter for Brands Reviews & Product Details

The Lightroom Classic integration has been a game-changer for our workflow. I can publish assets directly to our brand library without leaving Lightroom, eliminating manual exports and saving real time every week.

Sharing with stakeholders is equally impressive. A quick share link gives clients and team members access to clean, professional galleries without needing an account. What used to take email chains now takes seconds.

The platform is powerful for admins but approachable for stakeholders who just need to view or download assets. That balance is rare and genuinely appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasional performance issues can disrupt the workflow. The site sometimes loads slowly and requires logging out and back in to resolve, which is a minor but noticeable friction point during busy periods.

The bigger frustration is the pricing on AI/Intelligence features. The benefits are clear and compelling, but the cost is high enough that budget conversations rarely get past the price point. For departments without enterprise-level budgets, it feels like a valuable tier that stays just out of reach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use PhotoShelter for Brands as an effective catalogue for brand assets, especially images and video. It's easy to use and intuitive in design, which helps equip my teams to make their jobs better, easier, and more effective. It allows all team members access to our catalogue of images, making us more efficient as a small team and helping us make better use of our time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Personally, I'd like to see it help us code images faster and easier to make search better and faster. It may very well do that, but I have not experienced that yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PhotoShelter has been a great place for us to collate all of our video and photography in one spot. Compared with our previous software, the faster load times in PhotoShelter are really noticeable. As soon as we open a folder, the images are there straight away, which helps keep our workflows moving quickly and means the platform doesn’t slow our team down. The AI search is also unbelievably good. It has saved us time as we no longer need to add lots of tags to our images, instead we can use the AI search as it quickly and accurately picks out objects/activities in the image. The overall system is easy to use and the support from the team has always been great whenever we've had any questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the difference between Collections and Galleries less intuitive than hoped. For a start, the two words mean the same thing, so it's already confusing to explain to our new users. I think simplifying this approach would be really beneficial. Make it really clear where the photo physically exists, and then also make it really clear that when it is in a 'Gallery' that it isn't another copy of that image, but instead links back to the original, so each photo only exists once, only has one reference number and one location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate that the metadata is stored with each file, that you can see which folder(s) each photo is located in, and that you can organize a photo into multiple project folders without having duplicate files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sharing permissions are extremely finicky, they're difficult to set up and to maintain. It seems like every time I add new content to a folder that a specific user group is supposed to be able to access at every level, they can't see any of the new content and I have to completely reset permissions for the whole project folder. I've asked customer service reps to help me troubleshoot this, and they patched over the issue with a "bandaid" solution that worked for the few folders we were looking at, but did not provide a long-term solution. Overall, it's very difficult to grant viewing and downloading permissions without either making everything public or making everything private. We work with external vendors frequently and want to be able to share certain photo albums with them without having them made public to anyone, and the Lightbox feature is too clunky. Lightboxes also seem to require individual permissions settings to view/download each photo, rather than one setting for the whole Lightbox. There's so much room for improvement with sharing features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like organizing images and using the search to find them. The search is very easy, and I also appreciate the ability to share what we want to share. Setting up PhotoShelter for Brands was also easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is sometimes difficult to download the images I am searching for in bulk. Some UI interface improvements in searching and being able to select the images you want to download. It is a little pricey but does the job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Photoshleter has significantly improved our workflow and made it much easier for us to access the photo library we already have. It’s also given us the opportunity to build and grow our first DAM smoothly, and we’ve been able to do that with ease thanks to the team’s strong support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Photoshelter is incredibly customizable for whatever your needs are. That flexibility is a big plus, but it can also feel overwhelming if you don’t already have some background in how DAMs work and how to use them to your advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Photoshelter is an amazing software that is super versatile and easy to teach to others. Photoshelter is the most used website in our department. Our reps are PS are also super helpful, responsive and care about our organization and how PS can fit us best with its use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do wish the platform had more affordable add ons, we love PS but we do spend a ton of money on it every year and would love to see more affordable integration options! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate that PhotoShelter for Brands lets me store InDesign files, PDFs, and other kinds of media, which is great. I also like having a thumbnail view because it's much more visual and intuitive compared to our current SharePoint system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's some UX navigations that are currently pretty confusing for me -- collections vs. galleries, and the public vs private links. Would love for these to be more intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how PhotoShelter for Brands makes it easier to organize photos for our university. It helps us find the photos we need faster and keeps them organized. I really appreciate the AI search feature. Sometimes our photos aren't tagged the way we search for them, so the AI search helps with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not always sorted by year, and sometimes photos that are old pop up when we don't want them to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really enjoy the look and feel of PhotoShelter for Brands more than anything else; it significantly enhances the aesthetic experience while using it. The workspace feature is another aspect I appreciate a lot. It not only makes my work more enjoyable but also simplifies processes for others by reducing the need for frequent photo requests. The simplified usage prevents people from being overwhelmed, especially when dealing with specific requests, making the platform user-friendly and not perceived as overly complex or daunting. Overall, these aspects have greatly improved my workflow and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The search bar and searching of tags in PhotoShelter for Brands is not intuitive. Users often give up after a few tries as it is not as effective as expected, particularly with AI. It feels repetitive with images, and there should be a simpler way to eliminate or not display duplicate images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.