Create a session

Set up a session, choose where photos go, and start shooting.

By the CloudTether team · Updated

A session is a single shoot — it groups the photos you capture and the destinations they go to.

Steps

  1. In the app, create a new session and give it a name (e.g. "Smith Wedding").
  2. Choose the destinations for this session (where photos should be delivered). You can add one or several.
  3. Connect your camera if you haven't already.
  4. Start shooting — captures appear in the session as they come in.

You can review a session's photos and their delivery status any time from the Sessions list, on the phone or the web dashboard.

Choose where a camera's shots go

Point each camera at your services — or keep its shots on the phone — and change it any time.

Not sure which you have? 1.1 has the tabs Home · History · Deliver · More; 1.0 has Home · Playback · Destinations · More. What changed in 1.1

  1. CloudTether 1.1 Send its shots to picker with the shoot sending now to Dropbox and Google Drive, This phone only, and earlier shoots that send to your services

    1Open “Send shots to…”

    Tap “Change” next to “Sending to …” at the top of Home, or on the sheet that opens when a camera connects. “Sending now” is the current choice; under it are “This phone only” (shots are kept here in Not sent yet, or copied to Photos if you set that up), “New shoot to saved destinations” and “Shoots that send to your services”.

  2. CloudTether 1.1 New shoot screen: name your shoot, then pick destinations such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive and Amazon S3

    2Pick services for a new shoot

    Tap “Choose other services or folders”. Name your shoot (it defaults to today's date and time), tick the services under “Deliver to” — Dropbox, Google Drive, a gallery, FTP… — and tap “Create shoot”.

  3. CloudTether 1.1 Saved destinations screen with a Weddings set sending to Dropbox and Google Drive and a Client previews set sending to Dropbox

    3Save the set for next time

    Under the current shoot, tap “Save these destinations…” and give the set a name. It appears in Deliver › Saved destinations and as “New shoot to saved destinations” in the picker — one tap starts a new shoot, named for today, on the same services.

  4. 4Reconnecting later

    Each camera remembers its choice. Reconnect the same day and it rejoins that shoot; on a later day it starts a new shoot on the same destinations, so next week's job never lands in last week's folder.