New Features/In Progress:
Feedback: Whilst the registration, log in and other form interactions are fairly straight-forward and streamlined, we understand they are lacking feedback, we're in the process of improving this for you.
Albums: Upload your photographs to albums, these can be private or public, your choice, they can be sharable, and downloadable, so you can share these albums with clients and if you want, allow them to download the complete album.
Contact Sheets: Similar to mood boards, but this will just be for your photographs, these will always private but shareable, contact sheets will never appear in search engines, and are purely designed to show clients a set of photographs for approval, clients will be able to browse the contact sheet and approve individual images, once completed, you can automatically create a downloadable album based on approved images.
Direct Messaging: We've started on this feature, but we're still some way off pushing it live.
Completed
Quality of life updates: Adjustments to image processing, including colour profiles and compression rates. Added a maximum upload size and feedback. Fixes to image uploads and other code improvements. Grid view now show correct aspect ratio for photographs. General site performance updates, including a large portion of code refactoring.
Completed: September 17th, 2025
Social Element/Personalisation: We're going to allow you to follow photographers, and they can follow you back.
Completed: September 5th, 2025
Favourites: Whilst mood boards are a core feature of FOTO, we want to add the ability to tag photographs and photographs as favourites to quickly re-find them at another time. We aim to be able to let you do this from the feed and detail pages.
Completed: September 5th, 2025
Removing Boards: Yes, we somehow managed to miss this when we added boards, but you can now remove boards.
Completed: September 4th, 2025
Personalised Homepage: There's no algorithm, but your homepage is now personalised based on your selected specialisms.
Completed: September 4th, 2025
Ad Spaces: In an effort to prevent us from having to add a paid account, we've introduced ads on the site, we've thought carefully about both options, and we've rather not charge for accounts, we've also considered the placement of these ads carefully too, and we're hoping these won't be too intrusive.
Completed: September 2nd, 2025
Tagging: Allow you to add your own tags to images.
Completed: July 11th, 2025
Availability: Allow you to filter photographers by availability.
Completed: June 15th, 2025
Metadata: Improve metadata for photographs and users, this will allow us to improve search features as well as improve search engine exposure.
Completed: June 25th, 2025
Mood board: We want to allow you to add a photograph to a mood board directly from the image feed, so you don't have to view the photograph detail page.
Completed June 26th, 2025
Mood board: Currently in development, the ability to remove a photograph from a mood board.
Completed June 26th, 2025