25 mai 2026
How MyTools Helps You as a Wedding Photographer
Wedding photography is mostly the wedding. Thirteen side tasks around it (contracts, watermarks, social cuts) handled free in your browser today.
Photographing a wedding is mostly the wedding. Reading the light at the altar when the doors open, framing a sister-of-the-bride who is about to cry, catching the ring exchange without dropping the second body, dragging the off-camera flash into place before the first dance. That is what the couple paid for. That is what the day asks of you.
The rest of it is paperwork and pixels. The signed model release that came back as a phone photo of a clipboard. The album proof PDF the couple wants in three formats because the bride's parents only open files on an iPad. The thirty-second vow clip for the couple's launch reel, cut from ninety-two minutes of footage. The preview gallery with your studio name in the corner so no one screenshots a bare frame. Twelve resized JPGs for the wedding planner's website by Friday. These are the tools for wedding photographers that don't fit in a camera bag.
Below are thirteen of those side tasks, with the free in-browser MyTools tool that handles each one. No installation, no account, no friction.
The signed model release that came back sideways
It is Sunday morning after the wedding. The maid of honor scanned the release on her flatbed at home, with the page rotated ninety degrees, and emailed it back at 2 a.m. You need a clean copy for the gallery release file, not one the bride's mother has to tilt her phone to read.
Rotate Image takes the JPG or PNG and turns the file itself, not just the preview. One click for ninety degrees, lossless on a right-angle turn so the signature stays as crisp as the scan was. Download, drop it into the wedding folder, move on.
A "DRAFT" stamp on the album proof before the couple signs off
The album proof goes through three rounds. Round one is the layout, round two is the colour, round three is the captions. Until the couple has signed off, every page of the sixty-page mockup PDF needs to carry a DRAFT stamp so an aunt does not screenshot a spread and post it as the final.
Watermark PDF adds a text or image stamp across every page in one pass. Set the opacity, set the rotation, save the marked-up copy. The unmarked original stays untouched for the final delivery once round three is in.
The 200-page album PDF that will not email
Your album software exports at full print resolution. A 200-page hardcover proof comes out at 240 MB. The couple's email rejects anything over 25 MB, Dropbox shows the upload bar moving like a glacier, and your assistant on the road can't get the file at all.
Compress PDF brings the file down without re-doing the export. Pick the compression level, watch the projected size update before you commit, and the same album ships at 18 MB with no quality drop the couple will notice on an iPad screen. Email, done.
Just spreads twenty-two to twenty-seven for the bride's parents
The bride's parents only want to see the reception spreads. They are not interested in the rehearsal dinner, the first-look set, or the family formals. Sending the full 200-page proof and asking them to scroll is how you lose the parent print package.
Extract PDF Pages pulls the exact range you want into a clean new file. Type 22-27 into the range field, save, send. The original stays put for the next round of edits with the couple.
Three documents the couple needs to sign in one go
The contract, the model release, and the delivery schedule live in three different PDFs because they came from three different templates. Sending three attachments to the couple invites two of them to be ignored. One signing packet keeps the day moving.
Merge PDF combines them in the order you set. Drag the contract first, the model release second, the delivery schedule third. Download the unified PDF, send one attachment, get one signed file back. The couple does not have to wonder which document is which.
The preview gallery with your studio name in the corner
The preview gallery goes out the Tuesday after the wedding. The couple needs to feel ownership; you need to keep your name on the frames until the balance is paid. Without a watermark, one screenshotted favourite ends up on Instagram credited to no one.
Watermark Image stamps your logo or studio text on every preview in one batch. Position the mark once in the corner, set the opacity, run the whole gallery through. The previews go out branded, the high-resolution unwatermarked files wait for the final invoice.
Twelve images for the planner's website by Friday
The wedding planner emails on Thursday: "Twelve from the day for the portfolio page, please. 1200 wide, JPG." Your delivery folder has eight hundred frames at 6000 pixels wide. You are not opening each one in Photoshop and exporting twelve times by hand.
Resize Image handles a batch in one pass. Drop the chosen twelve, lock the longest side to 1200, output as JPG. The originals stay untouched and the planner gets a folder she can drag straight onto her site.
Guests who did not sign releases, in the public portfolio
The couple signed a release. Their families did not. For the portfolio page on your site you want the wide table shots in, but you need to blur the faces of the cousins and the plus-ones who never signed anything.
Blur Image lets you paint a blur over just the parts of the photo you want. One pass at eye level over the cousin's face, a quick pass over the toddler at table seven, save the new JPG. The composition stays, the consent issue goes away.
A thirty-second clip of the vows for the couple's Reel
The full ceremony video is ninety-two minutes. The couple wants to launch their marriage on Instagram with a thirty-second clip of the vows that starts when the bride says "I, Sarah," and ends just after the kiss. They want it Sunday night, not next Wednesday after a full edit.
Trim Video lets you drag two handles on a timeline preview. Set the in-point at the start of her vows, the out-point after the kiss, download the cut. Frame-accurate, no re-encode, file the same shape as the original.
The highlight reel before it goes on Vimeo
The three-minute highlight reel goes up on Vimeo for the couple to share. The free tier has no DRM, the embed runs anywhere, and screen recorders are cheap. You want your studio mark in the bottom corner so any reshare carries your brand.
Watermark Video adds a logo or text overlay with timing and fade controls. Position the mark, set the opacity, decide whether it fades in at the second mark or holds steady for the full reel. Render, replace your master, upload the watermarked cut.
The maid of honor's toast, audio only, for the family group chat
The maid of honor's toast was the moment of the night. The video is in the dinner reel, but the bride's grandmother does not stream video well over her rural connection. She wants the toast. Just the audio. As an MP3, to listen to in the car.
MP4 to MP3 pulls the audio out of the dinner clip in a single pass. Drop the file, pick the bitrate, download the MP3. The toast is a 4 MB file the grandmother can download once and keep on her phone. The video file goes nowhere.
The father-of-bride toast, recorded from the back of the room
The on-camera mic on the second body was twenty metres from the head table when the father of the bride started. His toast is in the audio track, but it is faint. The DJ's PA carried it for the room; your camera caught a quieter version through forty people of crowd noise.
Boost Audio Volume runs the file through a brick-wall limiter that pushes the level up without clipping. Pick the boost in decibels, watch the projected peak stay under 0 dBFS, download the louder file. The toast is now usable in the family's slideshow without anyone reaching for the volume knob.
The QR code on the printed thank-you card
The couple wants their printed thank-you cards to point at the private gallery. Typing a sixty-character URL into a phone is not how a thank-you card reads in 2026. A QR in the bottom right of the card design, scanned once, opens the gallery.
QR Code Generator takes the gallery URL and outputs a clean PNG or SVG. Pick the size, drop it into the InDesign template the printer expects, send to print. One scan, one tap, the couple's grandparents are looking at the album on the couch.
A signed release, an album proof, a thirty-second vow clip, a QR code. None of it is photography. All of it lives in the same week as the wedding shoot itself, and in the weeks after, when the couple wants the album in three formats and the planner wants the website cuts and the parents want their five spreads.
The tools for wedding photographers do not all live in a camera bag. Some of them live in browser tabs, where the side work gets done while the next wedding's couple is choosing a venue. With the admin in tabs instead of installed desktop suites, the time goes back where it should: behind the camera, framing the next couple's moment as it happens. That is the part that mattered when you signed up.