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Turn a folder of proof photos into a page your client can heart. They send back one line of filenames. You paste it into Lightroom. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

1. Choose your proofs

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2. Details

3. Build the page

Put the downloaded index.html in the same folder as your JPEGs.

Then upload that whole folder somewhere and send your client the link. A free static host (Netlify Drop, Cloudflare Pages, an S3 bucket) takes about a minute. Use an unguessable folder name: anyone with the link can see the photos.

Or zip the folder and email it. That works too, but only on a computer.

When the picks come back

Your client sends one line of filenames. In Lightroom Classic: Library → Find (Cmd/Ctrl+F), set the filter to Filename + Contains, and paste the whole line in one go. Lightroom treats spaces and commas as "any of these". Select all, make a collection, edit.

Capture One works the same way with the same line.

Your proofs

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