Gallery storage, and the season that fills it
Checked against CullTone on 18 Oct 2026.
Your RAW files are the heaviest thing you own, and they stay on your own drives, so they don't count against a CullTone plan. What fills a plan is smaller and easier to forget: the finished JPEGs, counted more than once while a gallery is live, in the busy month when four couples are all downloading at once.
What takes the space
Everything CullTone keeps online for you counts toward your plan:
- A thumbnail and a preview of every frame in every project, archived ones included. Each is small, but a wedding has thousands.
- The finished full-size JPEGs, one per delivered photo per version you keep.
- Each gallery's own copy of its photos.
Add up the last two and a delivered photo is stored twice while its gallery is live: once in the project and once in the gallery. The ZIP the couple downloads is built as they download it, so it takes no space at all. The RAW files on your own computer count for nothing.
A worked estimate
Use your own numbers: export one typical finished photo, check its size, and count how many you usually deliver. For the sums here, suppose a wedding of 3,000 frames with 600 delivered photos averaging 10 MB each. Your camera and your look will give a different average.
| What | While the gallery is live | After the gallery's copies are removed |
|---|---|---|
| Finished JPEGs in the project | 6 GB | 6 GB |
| Gallery copies | 6 GB | 0 |
| Thumbnails and previews, 3,000 frames | Small, but measure it | Same |
| Total, before previews | about 12 GB | about 6 GB |
Set that against the plans:
| Plan | Storage |
|---|---|
| Free trial | 2 GB |
| Solo | 25 GB |
| Pro | 100 GB |
| Team | 500 GB |
| Studio | 1 TB |
The gap between the two columns of the first table is the whole planning problem. In wedding season, several galleries are live at once, each at twice its delivered size. The quiet months give the space back.
Size it for your busiest month
Plan for the peak, not the average. Count how many galleries you expect to have live at the same time in your busiest month, multiply by the live size from the first table, then add the finished JPEGs of every project you keep after its gallery has closed.
With the numbers above, four weddings live at once come to about 48 GB. Twelve finished projects kept for the year add about 72 GB more at 6 GB each. That studio needs something above 120 GB in its busiest month, plus previews, and far less in its quietest. Do this sum once with your real file sizes before the season starts.
Two habits move the total more than the plan does. Deliver fewer near-duplicates, since every frame you leave out is saved twice while the gallery is live. And keep one version of each delivered photo; old renders you never sent still count.
Expiry does most of the work
A CullTone gallery closes six months after you make it unless you choose another date, and you can extend it. Thirty days after it closes, the gallery's copies are deleted; the edited photos stay in the project, so a couple who come back a year later can have a new gallery. A shorter expiry is the cheapest storage you'll ever buy.
The app warns you at 70% and again at 90% of your plan. At 100%, a new gallery waits until you free space, add 100 GB for $4 a month, or move up a plan. Galleries already published stay online, and there's no overage bill. The catch is timing: the wait lands on the day you want to deliver, so if you're past 70% going into a busy month, deal with it then.
Finished projects can be archived from the project settings. An archived project can be restored for 30 days, and an owner can delete it for good, which is the only way its previews and finished JPEGs leave your storage.
No gallery is a backup
Nothing here protects the RAW files. A gallery holds only finished JPEGs, and a closed gallery is deleted on schedule. Keep the originals on two drives, one of them somewhere other than your desk, for as long as your contract says you will, and then check that the second drive actually opens. Do it this week.