This guide walks you through every feature in Samaro v2.0 from setting up your first event and uploading media, to AI culling, gallery customisation, client sharing, and building your public profile. Whether you are just getting started or switching from another platform, this is the complete reference for the new workflow.

1. Create Your Account

2. Create Your First Event

3. Add Sub-Events

4. Upload Your Media

5. Add Guests and Co-hosts

6. Set Up Albums (Favourite Lists)

7. Share the Gallery

8. Create a New Gallery (Gallery 2.0)

9. Gallery Customisation for Photographers

10. Set a Cover Photo

11. AI Editing

12. Configure Event Settings

13. Dynamic Watermarking and Sponsor Frames

14. Google and Meta Integration

15. My Account: Public Profile and Portfolio

16. My Account: Cloud Storage

17. My Account: Plan and Storage

If you shoot weddings, corporate events, or any gathering where clients expect their photos delivered fast and beautifully, you already know the problem. The shoot is the easy part. Everything after organising thousands of frames, building a gallery, sharing it with clients, managing downloads is where hours disappear. Samaro is a photo delivery platform for photographers built specifically to fix that. And with version 2.0, the entire workflow has been rebuilt from the ground up.

This guide covers the complete v2.0 journey end to end: account setup, event creation, uploading, guest management, sharing, gallery customisation for photographers, AI editing, AI photo culling, watermarking, and your public profile. Every step, every screen.

Step 1: Create Your Account

Open samaro.ai or the Samaro app. On the sign-in page, choose Continue with Google or Continue with Email. New users land on the account creation form where you enter your name, select how you heard about Samaro, agree to the terms, and click Create account.

The Samaro sign-in screen. Two options, no friction.

Enter your name and a few quick details to complete sign-up.

After creating your account, Samaro asks for your WhatsApp number. This is used for account verification and platform notifications sent through Samaro’s verified WhatsApp channel.

WhatsApp number verification for account security.

Step 2: Create Your First Event

After sign-up, you land on the main dashboard. As a photo delivery platform for photographers, Samaro organises everything around events one event per shoot, with all its media, guests, and galleries in one place. On the right, you will see your current plan details and a Get started checklist that guides you through the initial setup. Click Create event to begin.

The dashboard. Events, storage, and your setup checklist in one place.

On the Create event screen, fill in the event name, select the event type, set a custom URL slug, and add the start and end dates. You can also add a description and pin the location. Once done, click Create event in the top right corner.

Event name, type, URL, and dates. Fill these in and your event is created.

Step 3: Add Sub-Events

Inside your event, go to the Media section from the left sidebar and click Add sub event. Sub-events let you organise photos by ceremony segment, for example Reception, Haldi, Mehendi, or After-party.

Each sub-event gets its own media folder inside the event.

Once your sub-events are created, the next time you upload media, the upload popup will ask you to select which sub-event you want the photos to go into. This keeps everything organised from the moment it lands in Samaro, and guests browsing the gallery see a clean, segmented view instead of one large unsorted library.

Step 4: Upload Your Media

Select the sub-event you want to upload to, then click Add Media in the top right. A modal appears with four upload options: Upload files, Upload folder, YouTube or Vimeo, and Cloud Imports from Google Drive or Dropbox.

Four ways to get your media in. Upload folder is recommended for large shoots.

For large event shoots, Upload folder is the fastest option. If you are shooting a live event where clients are already waiting, Camera2Cloud photography takes this further Samaro’s Camera2Cloud feature lets you upload directly from your camera to the cloud during the event, without waiting until you get home. Photos appear in the gallery in near real-time as you shoot.

Once photos are uploaded, you can select multiple photos using Ctrl or Cmd and perform bulk actions from the bottom action bar, including moving to a sub-event, marking as private or public, triggering Auto edit, running AI cull, or downloading.

Select multiple photos and use the bottom action bar for bulk actions including Auto edit and AI cull.