Download all your photos

Every PixVenu gallery includes a one-click bulk download. From the host detail page, open the Export hub and start a Download archive — we package every photo and video in the gallery into a single streaming ZIP, and the browser downloads it as soon as the first bytes are ready. The archive is a complete backup of your gallery, so it includes everything you can still see on your dashboard: approved uploads plus any you've hidden from guests or that are still pending moderation. Only photos you've moved to Trash are left out.

Files are full-resolution. Whatever your guests uploaded — full-size JPEGs, HEICs from iOS, raw MP4s from Android camera apps — comes back to you at the exact size + quality they sent. We don't recompress, watermark, downsize, or strip EXIF (other than the host-opt-in GPS scrub on the upload path; once a file is in your archive it's the original). The live gallery shows compressed thumbnails for fast scrolling, but the export gives you the real file behind each one.

Photos are grouped into per-guest folders. Inside the ZIP, each guest's contributions land in their own folder named after the uploader label they typed at upload time. The folders sit at the top level of the archive — there's no extra wrapper folder to click through — and filenames are tidied to lowercase so they unzip cleanly on Windows, macOS, and Linux alike:

your-gallery-photos.zip
├── Anna Lee/
│   ├── 0001-img_3492.jpeg
│   ├── 0002-img_3501.jpeg
│   └── 0003-video.mp4
├── David Kim/
│   ├── 0001-pxl_20260514.jpg
│   └── 0002-pxl_20260515.jpg
├── Anonymous/
│   └── 0001-photo.jpeg
├── guestbook-attachments/
│   ├── 0001-anna-lee-photo.jpeg
│   └── 0002-david-kim-video.mp4
├── README.txt
├── guestbook.txt
├── guestbook.csv
├── photos.csv
├── contributors.csv
├── comments.csv
├── rsvps.csv
└── pre-launch-signups.csv

The 0001- prefix on each filename preserves the original upload order so an archive of a wedding reception still reads as the night unfolded. Guests who skipped the optional name field land in a single Anonymous/ folder.

Guestbook messages come along. If your gallery has a guestbook, the ZIP includes both guestbook.txt (human-readable: one message per paragraph with the guest's name and timestamp) and guestbook.csv (machine-readable: same data in spreadsheet form, RFC 4180-compliant so it opens cleanly in Excel + Sheets + Numbers).

A README and spreadsheets ride along too. Alongside the guestbook files above, a full-gallery archive also includes a README.txt that orients whoever opens it years later, plus several more CSVs you can open in any spreadsheet app: photos.csv (every item with its caption, uploader, moderation status, and engagement counts), contributors.csv (a per-guest rollup of who shared how much), comments.csv (any photo comments left during the event), rsvps.csv (RSVP responses, if you used Digital Invitations), and pre-launch-signups.csv (anyone who asked to be notified before the gallery went live). If guests left photo or video well-wishes in the guestbook, the files themselves land in a guestbook-attachments/ folder. These companion files only appear in the full-gallery download — the scoped ZIPs below (a single album, one contributor, or a hand-picked selection) carry just the photos you asked for.

Tips before you click Download

• Download to a computer, not a phone. Even a moderate gallery is hundreds of megabytes; phone storage fills fast and the file manager UX is hostile for multi-GB ZIPs. Use a laptop or desktop and you'll have access to the right unzipping tools.
• Have enough free disk space. A gallery with lots of video easily runs into multi-gigabyte territory. Aim for 2× the gallery's storage tile as your buffer (one copy in the download folder, one extracted).
• Back up the ZIP somewhere off-device. Once you've downloaded, copy the archive to a cloud drive (Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud) or an external SSD. PixVenu keeps the gallery accessible through your hosting window, but the moment you have the ZIP it stops mattering whether anything happens to our copy.
• Don't wait until the last day of your hosting window. Even if everything goes right, the download itself takes time. Give yourself a comfortable buffer before the gallery expires.

If you only want a slice of the gallery — a specific album, just the videos, just the photos from one guest — the host dashboard's bulk-selection toolbar can pull a ZIP of just the photos you've ticked. See the per-album ZIP article for the album-scoped flow.