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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated August 20th, 2026 # Reviews of PhotoShelter for Brands Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.7 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews BC Butch C Exec VPEntertainment, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The startup phase was seamless, and today, Ps is used by my entire firm.“ August 25, 2024 Mahmoud M PhotographerPhotography, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It needs more consideration about the price plans as it is a little bit expensive.“ September 27, 2022 AF Alexia F Ceo Arts and Crafts, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “You have photos and videos that will help you centralize your digital visual content“ December 31, 2022 Jeffrey P Digital Marketing ManagerConsumer Goods, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “PhotoShelter does include some brand management tools but isn't robust enough to be considered a replacement for a true Product Information Manager.“ January 11, 2022 BC Butch C Exec VPEntertainment, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Seamless integration and ease of use.“ August 25, 2024 Matthew D Senior Visual Media ConsultantHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Also, the bandwidth occasionally is slow downloading (which I've mostly noticed with video assets.)“ July 21, 2022 AF Alexia F Ceo Arts and Crafts, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “a great visual space to find your multimedia content.“ December 31, 2022 Rachel K Web Content SpecialistHigher Education, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Nothing major, just annoying.“ February 16, 2021 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 253 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Bill S. VP, Communication Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Reliable Photo Management" August 14, 2019 4.0 Very satisfied, great value for the money. Pros Powerful, robust, reliable, fast, flexible. Cons Takes time to learn features, sometimes UI seems a little dated. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Web Developer Defense & Space Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good digital asset management with SSO capability" February 16, 2025 4.0 Overall Photoshelter has worked well within our organization and has been well received. Pros We are using PhotoShelter as a digital asset manager to share and collaborate with the whole company. With PhotoShelter it's easy to manage, organize and control, SSO capability is also a bonus. Cons It's a bit difficult to handle mass upload of files, if you are curating more select content it's fine but if you want to use it more for archival purposes you may struggle with the format a little bit. Review Source AR Anne R. Graphic Designer Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Not very practical" September 5, 2019 3.0 Libris hosts our photo library. Overall the experience using it has been incredibly frustrating. I feel like I waste an incredible amount of time trying to find images that should be easy to access. Would not recommend this product. Pros Offers access to many photos, variable download size options Cons Search function is horrible (and didn't work at all the first 6 months or so we used the product, so Libris is ridiculously slow at fixing bugs), difficult to find specific images through navigation, multiple clicks required to access search, navigation is not intuitive, images look fuzzy before you download them so you can't tell the quality of the image without downloading it first, lightbox makes you select which box to save to each time, you're unable to put an image into lightbox unless you open the image first, it takes way too many clicks to do anything in this software. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Digital Marketing Manager Consumer Goods Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great content library and media storage platform with search functionality and meta tag features" January 11, 2022 4.0 For an enterprise level product based business with over 100,000 unique SKUs, we were in desperate need of a cloud storage solution for thousands of photos, videos, and text deliverables. PhotoShelter is a professional solution at a price point that will meet most agencies or mid-sized companies. Pros PhotoShelter does an amazing job of storing thousands of high resolution content files. Activity tracking and workflows aid in project management. The cloud storage solution is fast with efficient search and preview tools. Cons PhotoShelter does include some brand management tools but isn't robust enough to be considered a replacement for a true Product Information Manager. Naming conventions and solid standard operating procedures are important to properly upload, label, and tag files. Batch editing or searches without meticulous up front effort is near impossible. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Visual Media Consultant Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Offsite management for your digital assets" July 21, 2022 5.0 It is has been a very reliable partner to use in our cataloguing and storage needs. You can treat PhotoShelter for Brands and a tertiary backup in your strategy. Pros PhotoShelter for Brands is great because our whole team can rely on a robust system to catalog and manage our vast numbers of photo and video assets for usage throughout our organization. Cons I feel like the interface is in some areas not very intuitive and could use some refreshing. Also, the bandwidth occasionally is slow downloading (which I've mostly noticed with video assets.) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Associate Creative Director Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "May not be the best solution for your money" July 25, 2018 4.0 Pros This software allows you to catalog large quantities of photography and for and additional fee video. The ability for others to view and request photography is great. Cons Unless you are selling your photography, and even if you are, there are likely much more economically solutions to your needs. We continue to use it due to an agreement we have, but likely would not choose this again if we needed a new solution. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Computer Networking Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "the best tool for managing your work and doing business on the go" August 12, 2022 4.0 I like this application, if it generates me good turnover. Pros PhotoShelter allows me to Search, browse and access our stock files and download them directly from your mobile device, anywhere, anytime. easy to integrate Cons the application sometimes bugs when downloading HD images with certain android phones Reason for choosing PhotoShelter for Brands the application is confidential and reliable Review Source RD Ric D. Director of Creative and Social Media Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great media organization tool" May 14, 2019 4.0 One of the key benefits to Libris is offsite storage and backup of files. This was a huge selling point for our IT staff. The user interface is easy to use and powerful. Once we have everything loaded and sorted and tagged, accordingly, finding and sharing our photo assets will be easy. Pros Libris makes uploading, organizing, tagging and sharing photos a breeze. It is simple and straightforward. Cons It doesn't do it on it's own. Depending on the size of your asset library, you must dedicate time to creating a standard for categorizing and managing your files and then do it. Review Source JK Justin K. Communications Specialist Public Relations and Communications Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Libris Review" May 14, 2019 5.0 Overall we are very satisfied with Libris. Pros The software is extremely easy to use and manage. It was the perfect solution for our photo archive and has proven to be an efficient method of delivering video and photos to end users. Cons At times we have difficulties sharing lightboxes with other people, but I think that is more user error. Review Source Daniel H. Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations Sports Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helps with Sharing Images On-Campus" August 20, 2019 4.0 Pros The ability to search through images by name or keyword. Cons I haven't found very many cons or things that I don't like about the service that we utilize through our campus public relations / marketing / photo departments. Review Source SM Susan M. Marketing Photographer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Libris has made digital asset management so functional and user friendly for my department " June 27, 2017 5.0 It's an easier access storage solution for our library of images. It's a great system for sharing and collaborating. It has given me the ability to hunt down images fast and deliver them to the client easily. I also love that you can organize it in the way that works best for you. Pros I love that the Libris platform is so intuitive, clean and user friendly. The multiple ways to search give flexibility to the user and the sharing controls really allow you to be specific with who can access your images. Invited users can create light boxes within the system to allow for collaboration which is such a handy feature. I love that the images show up large on the screen making image selection easier and I also love that users can select their desired size of download. You don't always need the full size, full resolution version! Downloads are always fast and without error. The customer support is fantastic and fast. I also appreciate all the tutorials, blogs and webinars offered as part of your membership. They do a great job of keeping photographers up to date on equipment, trends and general news in the field of photography. As a member, you feel like a part of a community that's cheering you on and there to help you succeed. Cons My only complaint about the system is the lightbox feature feels a bit outdated and cumbersome. You can't "select all" for downloading or even to set permissions for downloading. You have to do it one by one, which is very tedious. I hope they update this soon. I've found it's easier to copy selected images into a new gallery instead and share the gallery link as a way to collaborate, but it's just a half workaround because only the admin can create galleries, whereas invited users can only create light boxes. Review Source ML Mike L. Director of Photography Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for the most part but could use some improvement" August 13, 2019 4.0 Visual and tagged searching is great for our department, but often times we have to share a second gallery via Google Drive for off campus/non-users when it would be helpful to send temp links to external consumers once. Our designers cull lightboxes for projects and pull images one at a time, which is a hassle. There should be an option to turn on bulk downloading for registered users. Pros Tagging and importing is easy. Setting permissions for groups is helpful and the interface is mostly intuitive and useful. Getting our archive in front of eyeballs is easier now. Cons Users are unable to bulk download images. We're a unique case use in which we own all of the images we upload to our account, but still users are unable to download more than one image at a time from a lightbox. Gallery sharing doesn't always work. No option to share outside of our user base without setting up an account for them. Resorting to using a third party service to share files. Price per TB of storage isn't in line with other cloud based providers, nor is there an option to use a third party cloud provider with the interface. Reason for choosing PhotoShelter for Brands Features and price at the time. Review Source AG Angela G. Art Director Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Libris spans number sub-departments and varying needs" May 7, 2019 4.0 We are just over a year into using the software, and it has served our needs incredibly well. Libris offers many options for collaboration and the Wrike editing tool has been a huge support to our workflow. I very much appreciate the efforts Wrike makes to listen to their customers and improve their product through constant updates and add-on features. We've been very satisfied with the software, overall. Pros The software offers many options for customization and it integrates well will Google. The Wrike editing tool has had the greatest, positive impact on easing our workflow and process. There are many great options available in Libris that we, unfortunately, have not had time to explore. Cons There was a lot of internal work needed for deployment; the build-out of the application to our department's needs was not very intuitive; and for some, there has been a significant learning curve. The customer service we've received hasn't been impeccable. The response-time has been great, but the knowledgeability from our company rep (in our experience so far) has not been very good. Review Source JEF J. Emilio F. Photo Video Manager Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Night and day difference from previous DAM" August 15, 2017 5.0 Pros Libris is helping us build and share our Digital images with dozens of clients through out the university. Its easy to share contact sheets, fast download times and very clean and pleasant display of images. Love the ability to customize and use our Logo and color in the main page and use a copy rights watermark. Before Libris, we used to have a DAM that was painfully slow in all aspects. I've recommended Libris to other universities and they are also very pleased with what it offers. Cons One of the recurring issues that I constantly hear with some of our clients in the University is that sometimes, whey they search images in the library, they are asked to create a login info, and after that, they are told to contact the administrator. Seems there is a glitch in the system and I've contact their costumer service dept. but they still have not been able to fix it. We like the ability to easily download images using a password, but we don't want our clients to created "another" login in account. Makes no sense to have a "search" button if you can download the images you find in your search. Review Source CK Courtney K. Photographer/Videographer Photography Used the software for: 2+ years ### "No Regrets" May 7, 2019 5.0 The customer service is phenomenal. They tend to take feedback seriously and implement changes, although I haven't seen any changes made to Lightboxes in the last few years. Two thumbs up all around. Pros It saves our team and clients a massive amount of time in the photo search and delivery. It also serves as a portfolio for our photography services. Cons The Lightboxes are nearly useless and need to be updated to improve viewing, uploading, batch downloading and other options. I'd like to have a few options to customize the preview look. There should be an option to increase the viewing size on previews as clients have a difficult time checking expressions and making selections quickly from a large gallery when the previews are so small. Review Source Brooke B. Student Assistant Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "I've had no problems with Libris. It's easy to use and I love having all the photos in one spot. " August 14, 2017 5.0 Ease of access and organization to photos. Pros The organization is amazing. I'm very OCD about having things altogether and this allows us to keep everything in an orderly manor. I love the sharing function as well. I've had to put together many albums for people and it's nice to share the link with them and they have access to that specific folder instead of all our pictures. Cons The only problems I've had were with the users of the software not the software itself. I have no other cons. Review Source TM Todd M. University Photographer Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Our lives are now getting much easier...!" September 7, 2016 4.0 Two years ago we had images scattered all across various hard drives. Then we "MacGyver-ed" an asset collection based on Lightroom, which works wonderfully for one person but is not sharable in an office environment unless you jump through a bunch of hoops to tuck the catalog on the cloud and put all the images on a shared server, blah blah blah. But since we started using Libris about three months ago we've made tremendous progress in setting up our collections and starting to share them with various departments around campus. We're still barely scraping the surface on the possibilities Libris offers, and still have lots of work to do, to be sure. But finally our images are accessible to whomever we want to have access, with just a few clicks. And the customer support is second to none! Pros The different ways of getting images into the system is great. Speed is great. Batch editing image information once in the system is great (as long as you remember to click the APPEND button!! Maybe that should be on by default?) Cons There are a few glitches that sometimes generate errors during exporting from LR. For example I can't get the "Export with previous..." to work. And some functionality is still being developed, like the ability to make a lightbox downloadable with minimal effort. Everything I've stumbled with so far is minimal: things like the ability to resize columns and image previews in the browser. Not having various layout options except for the standard template. Minor things to enhance the user experience. Review Source KB Kelly B. Sports Info Director Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "I recommend Libris even though it needs just a bit more polish" September 4, 2019 4.0 Libris allows my team to access photos from where ever we might be working. And it provides an easy way for contributing photographers to upload photos to our site. Pros •Storage capacity •Ability to categorize collections and galleries •Ability to upload remotely Cons •Lack of ability to make the preview galleries larger so I can see more detail •Lack of easier way to clearly understand the permissions for each collection and gallery Review Source SW Sydnye W. Senior Director of Content & Storytelling Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Tremendous Time Saver" August 20, 2019 4.0 Having multiple photographers and videographers upload to Libris is a great way to collect and photos from our activities happening around the world. I like that there are a restricted number of users who can decide in which folders the assets will be made available and who can have access to them. Pros With Libris, we have saved a tremendous amount of time searching for and delivering content to people outside of our team. Many staff members around the world now check Libris first when looking for photos and videos of our athletes, sports and events. If they ask us personally, we send them straight to Libris. The number of direct inquiries from the public have also been reduces. We've been able to use the time saved on other work that needs our attention. Cons Because only one photo can be downloaded at a time, it can be quite time consuming to download many photos. Review Source JS Julie S. Senior Graphic Designer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Senior graphic designer at a big 10 university for approximately 10 years." August 18, 2017 3.0 Pros it's web-based and centralized, so our department of 50+ can access photos anytime, anywhere. I like having a Lightbox to quickly sort through my favorite photos as well. It's streamlined our production process and has made it easier for us designers to be more self-sufficient. Cons I was not involved in the set-up or back-end of Libris, but it seems like our department is always having issues with our search results despite what I've heard have been several meetings with Libirs per our key-wording and adding descriptions. Most recently I was using the 'enter' key to submit a keyword search (instead of hitting the submit button), which created issues, bringing up non-keywords/non-global results. In my personal opinion, I'm not in love with the user design interface of the site. Per my rating of customer support, I have had no interactions, therefore have given a 'neutral' score. Review Source SM Serena M. Junior Graphic Designer/Photographer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Libris has made our photo organization 10x more efficient. " August 16, 2017 4.0 Pros The best aspects about Libris are its clean interface and ease of use. It has made my work incredibly more efficient because I am able to quickly search for photos by tags, name, and gallery location, and organize folders to my team's specifications. It was surprisingly easy to learn how to use and the interface is readable and light. Additionally, the Libris team is very helpful and friendly. Cons There are few things I dislike about this software. If I had to make one suggestion, I wish the software would automatically apply a cover image to folders to make it easier to differentiate them if we have forgotten to apply a cover image manually. I also think there could be some improvement with the Desktop Uploader. The interface is much less clean than the website and sometimes is laggy. Review Source CO Caroline O. Digital Asset Manager Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "User-Friendly" May 13, 2019 4.0 Aside from the things mentioned above, my experience has been good overall. Pros I like how user-friendly and intuitive it is. Cons I wish custom metadata was available for video and that custom metadata fields for pictures supported more than one choice (example: one of our fields is "constituents". Sometimes a picture might have various groups of people captured and we would like to tag all of them.) I also have encountered some glitching when I add a photo from a gallery to another gallery where all galleries seem to duplicate. Even though they appear duplicated on Libris they have not really duplicated in the system, but the first time I encountered this I thought I had made a mistake, deleted a duplicated gallery, and ended up losing all the work I had done because the system actually deleted my one real gallery. This glitch happens almost every time I add pictures to other galleries and to fix it, I have to log out and log in again. Review Source KL Karen L. Art Director Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "COULD USE ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONALITY" May 14, 2019 3.0 It's a good way to share photos throughout our organization, although some of the functionality is limited. Pros I like that Libris is web-based. It's a good way to share photos throughout our organization, although some of the functionality is limited. Cons • I wish that the search function was better. It would be great to be able to search within a gallery. • I don't like that you can't enlarge the view unless you click on a specific pic. • When you share a lightbox, you can only share it with one person at a time. I wish you could enter multiple email addresses and share with a bunch of people at one time. Review Source eL elaine L. senior graphic designer Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Libris review" September 4, 2019 3.0 Pros Ability to catalog all of our photos and searchable by key words. Cons Many clicks needed before you get to the library of photos. I do not like the landing page with ads for other software apps for Libris. Those apps should be included with the price of the subscription. You should not have to first view this landing page before going to the library. Review Source DB Debra B. Manager, Sales Materials & Training Construction Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Asset Management Ease" August 20, 2019 4.0 Love the Quick Send Feature and the easy access for vendors to upload projects for review. Pros Easy to upload images and create new collections and galleries. Cons Moving images from old company extranet to SharePoint environment was cumbersome. Reason for choosing PhotoShelter for Brands Recommended by sister company Komatsu Mining Corp Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.