One home for all the mediaof the working photographer.

We built picmiz around one observation that came from the field, not a boardroom: a professional photographer has no platform that stays with them end to end.

Backup sits with one vendor, storage with another, and delivering raw material to a client or editor splinters across tools that were never built for folders weighing hundreds of gigabytes. Every job turns into a chain of makeshift fixes — an external drive left in the car, a transfer link that expires before the client finishes downloading, a folder split into eight parts to squeeze under an upload cap. Every one of those links is another place material can be lost, and a photographer's material isn't a file; it's the work itself.

So we built what we were missing: full-volume backup, storage and transfers — in one system, one interface. The same place where the photos land at the end of the day is the same place they're delivered from, and the original file is exactly what the client receives. There's no export and no conversion along the way, so there's never a moment where the material leaves your control to cross between two services that don't talk to each other.

Three rules follow from that, and every product decision here is measured against them. The first: the system has to be complete end to end — if a photographer has to bolt on another service to close out one job, we haven't finished our job. The second: the material stays yours — files are stored exactly as shot, with no hidden compression and no platform claiming ownership of the result, and you decide what gets sent, to whom, and for how long. The third is pace: we're measured by how long it takes to upload an event and deliver it, not just by the disk space we sold you, because the deadline that matters is the next event's, not the infrastructure's.

That's why we treat security as part of the product, not an appendix. Files are encrypted in transit and at rest — TLS 1.3 on the way, AES-256 in storage — and the keys are managed separately from the media itself. Every asset is kept in at least three copies, across two geographically separated data centers, so a hardware failure or a whole-region outage is a maintenance event, not an archive loss. Transfers move at full volume, with no compression and no splitting, and every link carries the settings you set: expiry, password, recipient limits, and an access log showing who viewed, who downloaded, and when.

Our ambition sounds modest, and it's meant to: to be the one place a photographer needs to store and move media. Not one more tool in the stack, but the one that makes the stack unnecessary.

— The picmiz team

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