Christmas got the photos.
Boxing Day gets a gallery.
Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, is the second gathering: the side of the family who spent the twenty-fifth with the in-laws arrives for a leftovers lunch of cold turkey, ham and whatever the trifle became overnight, the walk goes out in whatever weather the country offers, and the television is on for the Test from the MCG in Melbourne or the football fixtures in England. You are hosting it because you hosted yesterday and the house is already set up. The trouble is that everybody spent their photographic energy on Christmas Day, so the twenty-sixth, which is often the more relaxed and more crowded of the two, ends up with three blurry photos and a video of the dog. One QR code on the leftovers table gives Boxing Day its own gallery, and lets the relatives in another hemisphere watch it live.
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The moments guests actually photograph at Boxing Day gatherings
Why Boxing Day gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
A gallery for the day everyone stopped shooting
By the twenty-sixth the phones hold hundreds of photos from the day before and nobody feels like taking more, which is why the relaxed gathering with the other side of the family goes unrecorded. A code on the leftovers table gives every guest a reason to take five more, and puts them in one private gallery rather than in the camera roll of the one aunt who still bothered.
Watched from the other hemisphere
Boxing Day families are the ones split across the Commonwealth: a son in Perth watching the Test at breakfast, a sister in Toronto still asleep, grandparents in Manchester with the football on. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and puts the lunch on a private link with sound, so the ones who could not fly for Christmas get the second day at least.
Your side of the family, kept apart from Christmas Day
The twenty-fifth belonged to the in-laws and the twenty-sixth belongs to your side, and each half wants their own photos without scrolling through the other's. Run Boxing Day as its own event, or as a sub-event under one Christmas code, and send each side the link to the day they were at, with full-resolution downloads for both.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Broadcast it to the people who couldn't come
A private live broadcast is included with the Event Pass: stream up to 90 minutes to 100 viewers on a private link, with sound, and keep the recording afterwards.
A guestbook with your own question
Replace the generic prompt with one that fits the day. Written messages are collected alongside the photos and kept with the gallery.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event on Christmas night, once the dishes are done, as its own event or as a sub-event under the Christmas code.
Print one QR code for the leftovers table and one for the sofa, where the Test and the football keep everyone for hours.
Guests upload through lunch, the walk and the afternoon. Put the slideshow on the TV during the tea break and the day plays back to the room.
Download the originals before the New Year and send the link to both sides of the family, and to the relatives who watched from abroad.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Boxing Day gatherings
Set the event up on Christmas night, not Boxing Day morning. By the time the second-day guests arrive you will be reheating, and the code needs to be on the table before the first plate is filled. If you also collected Christmas Day, add Boxing Day as a sub-event under the same code so the whole holiday sits in one gallery with the two days kept apart, and both sides of the family can find their own day. If yesterday belonged to the in-laws and their gallery, start fresh with a new event and your side gets a clean link with nothing of the other family in it.
The walk is where Boxing Day photos come from, so send the code out with the walkers. It is the one moment the whole extended family is outdoors together in the same light, wrapped up, with the dog, before the sun goes at four in the north or with the sea behind you in the south. Ask two people at the back of the group to take the wide shot and upload it from the pub or the car before they forget. Back at the house the sofa takes over, and the phones come out again only if the slideshow on the TV during the tea break reminds them.
If the Test is on in Melbourne or the football fixtures are running in England, the room is already turned towards the television, so use it. Put the slideshow on the screen at the tea or half-time break, and everyone who did not upload sees the walk and the lunch and does. For family in another hemisphere, remember the time: a lunch in Auckland is the previous evening in London, and breakfast in Perth is late night in Toronto. Send the Live Broadcast link the night before with the start time written in their zone, and put the phone where it hears the room rather than the commentary.
Common questions about Boxing Day gatherings
Everyone took hundreds of photos on Christmas Day. Will they really take more on Boxing Day?
They will if there is somewhere for them to go and a reason to look. Boxing Day photos die because nobody asks for them; the code on the table asks. A guest scans it with the phone camera, the upload page opens in the browser without an app or an account, and the ten photos they took on the walk go in before the kettle boils. Put the slideshow on the television during the tea break and the people who see themselves on the screen add their own.
We did Christmas Day with the in-laws and Boxing Day with my family. One event or two?
Either works, and it depends on who wants which photos. If both days are yours to host, one event with each day as a sub-event keeps the whole holiday under one code with the days in their own sections. If Christmas Day was at the in-laws' and they ran their own gallery, create a separate event for Boxing Day and your side gets a link that contains only the day they were there. The price is per event, and a sub-event costs nothing extra.
Can family in Australia or the UK watch the lunch live?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass and streams up to 90 minutes with sound on a private link to as many as 100 viewers, in a phone browser with nothing to install. The catch is the clock: a Boxing Day lunch in Sydney is the small hours of the morning in London, and a lunch in Manchester is the evening in Melbourne. Send the link the day before with the time written in their zone, or ask the table to upload a short video greeting they can open when they wake.
Is the gallery private? Half the family are in it in pyjamas.
It is only reachable by someone with the link or the code, is never listed, is not indexed by search engines and is blocked from AI crawlers. If you want to see what comes in before the rest of the family does, turn on host review and each upload waits in your queue. When the holidays are over you can close the gallery to new uploads while it stays online for everyone to browse and download for the 365 days of hosting on an Event Pass.
What does it cost for a lunch and a walk?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, with no subscription and nothing charged per guest. It covers unlimited uploads from every phone at the table and on the walk, the written guestbook, the slideshow for the television, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. Live Broadcast is included for the family overseas. If you already have a pass for Christmas Day, Boxing Day as a sub-event under it costs nothing more.
Every photo from Boxing Day gatherings, in one place
One-time Event Pass, $29. No subscription, no per-guest fee.
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