Thai New Year, soaked.
Every photo, dry and together.
You are organising Songkran, Thai New Year, from 13 to 15 April: the wat's festival with food stalls and a stage, the Thai association's day in the park, or the family gathering where the younger generation pours jasmine-scented water over the elders' hands in rod nam dam hua and asks for their blessing. Mornings are for merit-making and bathing the Buddha images. Afternoons are for water guns, buckets and a smudge of din sor pong on every cheek. The photos are taken in waterproof pouches by people who are drenched, and they scatter across the whole community. One QR code brings them home.
One-time. No account needed to buy — about a minute.
The moments guests actually photograph at Songkran celebrations
Why Songkran celebrations work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
Upload after the water fight, not during it
Nobody should be holding an unprotected phone in a water fight. Guests shoot through a waterproof pouch, dry off, and upload from the stall queue or on the bus home. The link keeps working for as long as the event is open, so the photos from the soaked afternoon arrive safely the same evening or the next morning, all in one place.
The quiet part of the festival, kept too
Songkran is famous for water, but the heart of it is the morning: young people kneeling to pour scented water over their parents' and grandparents' palms, the line at the wat to bathe the Buddha images, the offerings to the monks. Those photos are the ones families send to relatives in Thailand, and one gallery keeps them beside the noisier afternoon.
A dry screen for a wet festival
At a temple or park festival, put the live slideshow on a screen in the shade near the food stalls, safely away from the splash zone. New photos appear as they arrive, so the morning blessings, the stage performances and the water fight play back to the people resting between rounds. It draws a crowd and reminds them where to upload.
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.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
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.
Private by default, never indexed
The gallery is only reachable by the link or code you share. Guest pages are blocked from search engines and named AI crawlers, and you can close the gallery whenever you choose.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event a few weeks before 13 April and add the QR code to the festival poster, the wat newsletter and the stall signs.
Print laminated QR cards for the temple steps and the food area, where nothing gets wet. Paper signs near the water will not survive the afternoon.
Guests shoot in waterproof pouches and upload once they are dry. Run the slideshow on a sheltered screen by the food stalls.
Download the originals for the temple or association, and send the gallery link to members and relatives in Thailand.
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. In this public demo, photos appear at once and videos wait for a person to approve them; at your own event, you decide.
- 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 Songkran celebrations
Waterproof everything that carries the code. Laminate the QR signs or put them in clear plastic sleeves, and place them where water is not thrown: the temple entrance, the shoe racks, the food queue and the merchandise table. Tell people out loud from the stage that they can upload later, once they are dry, because many guests will not take a phone out of its pouch during the water fight. A sign that says ‘Dry off, then upload your Songkran’ does more than one that just says ‘Scan here’, and it saves a few phones from drowning.
Keep the morning respectful and the gallery will reflect it. Photographing monks and the Buddha images is usually welcome at diaspora temple festivals, but ask the abbot or the temple committee first, and avoid flash during chanting. For rod nam dam hua, the elders are the guests of honour: ask a young relative to take the photos so the ritual is not interrupted by a stranger with a camera. Those quiet pictures of hands, water and jasmine are what families print and frame, far more than the water fight.
Use the guestbook for a New Year blessing. A question such as ‘What is your wish for the new year?’ collects messages in Thai and English from every generation, and the elders' answers are often the most moving thing in the gallery. If your temple runs the festival over two or three days, keep everything in one event so the community has one link to share. Send it out a few days after the festival, once the late uploads have arrived, and members abroad will forward it to family across Thailand.
Common questions about Songkran celebrations
How do people upload if their phones are in waterproof pouches?
They do not need to upload during the water fight at all. Most pouches let you take photos through the plastic, and the photos wait in the camera roll until the guest is dry. The upload page opens from the QR code or the link whenever they are ready, whether that is an hour later at the food stalls or the next morning at home, and everything lands in the same gallery.
Can our Thai temple use this for the Songkran festival?
Yes. A wat or a Thai association can run one event for the whole festival, with the code on the posters and the stall signs and the slideshow on a sheltered screen. If the committee wants to check photos of monks or the Buddha images before they are shown, turn on host review and nothing appears in the gallery or on the screen until a volunteer approves it.
Do guests need to install anything?
No. Guests point the phone's camera at the QR code and the upload page opens in the browser. There is no app, no account and no password, so it works the same for a grandmother visiting from Chiang Mai and a teenager who has never been to Thailand. They pick photos and short videos from the camera roll and send them. The finished gallery works the same way for viewing.
Who can see the photos?
Only people with your link or code. The gallery is private by default, is not listed anywhere, and guest pages are blocked from search engines. A temple can share the link with its members and nobody else will find it. You can close the gallery to new uploads at any time and keep it online for browsing, and every photo can be downloaded at full resolution by the people you invited.
What does it cost for Songkran?
Try it on the Free Preview first: QR uploads and the live slideshow, with the first 60 uploads visible and the gallery locking 7 days after the event. For the full festival, an Event Pass is $39, paid once with no subscription. It covers unlimited uploads up to 25 GB, host review, full-resolution originals and 365 days of hosting. There is no charge per guest, per stall or per day.
Every photo from Songkran celebrations, in one place
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