About

Built for photographers
who take headshots seriously

Headshot Queue is made by PortraitDesk — a small, focused product company building tools for professional portrait photographers.

The problem we solve

Running a headshot day should not require a spreadsheet

Photographers running corporate headshot sessions were managing everything manually — taking names at reception on paper, renaming hundreds of files after the shoot, copying and pasting gallery links into emails one by one, chasing retouching selections by email. On a 200-person shoot day, that admin takes longer than the photography itself.

Headshot Queue was built to automate every step of that — from the moment a client scans a QR code to the moment their retouched gallery lands in their inbox. Zero spreadsheets. Zero manual file renaming. Zero chasing.

The result is a photographer who arrives on shooting day with one URL, one QR code, and a laptop — and leaves with every client already notified, every file already named, and every gallery already delivered.

The product

Purpose-built, not adapted

Most gallery platforms are built for weddings or school photography and stretched to cover corporate headshots. Headshot Queue is built exclusively for the headshot workflow — tethered shooting with Capture One or Lightroom + Smart Shooter, high-volume client registration, and private individual gallery delivery.

The six-step workflow is identical whether you are shooting a 10-person team or a 400-person corporate event: QR registration → live queue → automatic file naming → private gallery delivery → retouching selection → contact sheet. No configuration changes between sessions.

The platform is entirely browser-based — nothing to install on shooting day. Queue, uploader, and galleries all run in any modern browser on Mac or Windows. Bring a laptop, open three tabs, start shooting.

The company

PortraitDesk

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Based in Italy
Built in Florence, Italy. Serving photographers worldwide.
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Single focus
One product, one workflow, done properly
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Real cameras only
Not an AI generator. Built for photographers shooting tethered sessions

PortraitDesk builds workflow tools for professional portrait photographers. Headshot Queue is our first product. The domain portraitdesk.com is our company home — planned to expand as we build more tools for the portrait photography market.

Worth knowing

Headshot Queue is not an AI headshot generator

AI headshot generators create synthetic portraits from uploaded selfies — no photographer, no camera, no session. Headshot Queue does the opposite: it helps real photographers run real sessions more efficiently. If you shoot headshots professionally, this is built for your workflow.

Ready to run your first headshot session?

Basic €25 / 30 days · Pro with white-label €50 / 30 days.