woocommerce photos to buy

Alright I’ve got a few things I am trying to do. All related.

I am trying to build a photography website where people can buy and pay for images from the site. I am running into some problems trying to make it work. I have looked at woocommerce and several other plugins but they are always missing a little functionality that I need and I’m not sure how to fix it myself.

So this is what I am looking to do. I want to upload my images to an album. Right now, I’m using the standard media gallery with The7 theme. For each image in a gallery (for each client) I want the client to be able to have a button to add to cart. Each image will be $35.

From the selected images, the user will then be able to choose products they want to associate with each image.

This allows the image usage rights to be purchased once, and then can use on multiple products which have been discounted to account for the $35 usage rights.

So in woocommerce, I know i can set up each product, though it is going take forever. And I know I can also make each image into a product, which I’m hoping a plugin will do easier than manually entering each one.

but how do I connect each image to the respective product?

Also, is there a way to get rid of certain fields I do not need for woo commerce so I can enter data more easily? I’ve got over 600 different size variations, and a couple thousand pictures, so I need the easiest method of making this all work together. Please let me know what you all can come up with. thanks.