Handoff Build Progress

This is a working development milestone, not the finished Handoff Galleries service. Client sign-in, email delivery, full-resolution downloads, Client Save completion, renewals, billing, custom domains, and production upload security are still to come.

The current Handoff Lightroom plug-in is required. Handoff stops before changing a project if the plug-in, preset, catalogue, photo list, or return receipt does not match.

Developer is still a standalone preview, and Adobe Lightroom Classic remains the recommended project finishing route. This work hardens speed and interaction without presenting Developer as finished.

Cover suggestions use small on-device previews and never change Culling or Picking results. This pass also keeps menus and project layouts usable as the window narrows.

The video tool currently supports Sony raw-GOP H.264 RSV files only; HEVC and MXF are not supported. Coldframe checks the installed converter before it starts and keeps every source RAW by default.

This is a safety and provenance milestone, not a culling accuracy claim. Motion-blur and camera-sync tests remain behind internal flags, and normal app runs stay on the supported baseline.

This is a benchmark candidate, not a claimed accuracy win. It still needs a fresh full-gallery run and checks against separate weddings before it can replace the current culling baseline.

Developer is still being built and is not presented as a finished project stage. Photographers can explore it without changing the dependable Lightroom handoff used for real work.

This pass did not change the safety rules behind copying, verification, or finishing. It makes those decisions easier to see and keeps the controls dependable when the workspace is resized.

This is the point where the new structure stops feeling like a collection of screens and starts working as one workflow. The app has been exercised with real hardware, wedding-scale folders, relaunches, and both finishing routes before it reaches beta testers.

This was a deliberate course correction. More capability should not make Handoff feel heavier or more generic. The renewed interface keeps the product moving forward while holding onto its original promise: simple, fast, no fuss, and built to give photographers their time back.

This pass focused on making editing decisions feel deliberate: photographers can compare the change, adjust the frame, and apply work across a set without losing track of what is selected or what will change.

The goal was to make the workspace feel dependable at wedding scale: images should arrive cleanly, selection should stay understandable, and moving between views should not make photographers babysit the interface.

This was deep engine work rather than surface polish: the goal was to make Developer feel more dependable before heavier editing decisions are made, with clearer render routes, stronger tests, and a steadier foundation for real wedding files.

This is the first practical version of Galleries: enough structure to prove the delivery workflow while keeping the focus on finished weddings, simple presentation, and a connected Handoff experience.

This pass was about trust before flash: safer setup, stronger recovery paths, steadier previews, and fewer moments where photographers have to wonder whether Handoff has kept up with the job.

This work was about making Developer feel calm, fast, and trustworthy under real editing pressure: clear navigation, resilient previews, measured performance, and controls that stay close to the Handoff workflow.

This was not just a visual polish pass. The app shell, shared design system, Inter font support, core workspace layout, and UI checks were rebuilt so Handoff feels more like one serious professional workflow tool instead of separate screens stitched together.

This is archive foundation work, not a rushed delete-originals feature. The focus stays on safe conversion, clear evidence, and photographer control before anything destructive is allowed.

Coldframe is still lab and candidate work, but it gives Handoff a clearer path for safe post-delivery archiving without rushing risky file conversion into production.

This section covers the workflow tools that help Handoff feel more like a complete post-wedding workspace beyond the cull itself.

Built from side-by-side checks against completed wedding galleries and Ray's own review notes.

This came from testing overnight wedding queues and watching where the workflow felt unclear.

Built around the reality that wedding work often runs while the photographer is away from the desk.

The goal was to support real folder habits without asking photographers to reorganise first.

This was a big step toward Handoff feeling like one focused desktop app, not a chain of tools.

This was built for Ray's internal review loop: fix the groups Handoff got wrong, understand why, and use those corrections to make the engine better.

This was the first version that connected the idea of Handoff to an actual desktop workflow.

The early goal was simple: prove that one focused app could reduce the scattered post-wedding workload.