SmugMug Feature Requests

[Thando]

Got an idea? Give it to us here. All of the SmugMug crew read this thread so feel free to share your ideas. Go ahead, let us have it.

We try to respond to as many requests as possible, but we can't always reply to each one.. but know this: we see them all! Thanks :deal

Summary of FRs implemented from the prior thread:


4x8 Baby Cards
5x7 Folded Cards
Sharegroups inherit Hide Owner properties when all sharegroup galleries use Hide Owner
Sharegroups show in the breadcrumbs
Metallic Prints and additional products
Ability to use a photo as a preview for a video rather than automatically generating a photo from the video
Calendars (through MyCanvas)
Stuff already asked for by multiple people:

Virtual Galleies
More levels of categorization
Coupons
Packagages
Pro 'lightbox' or 'favorites'
Self Fulfilmnet
More Pro Lab Options
Improve Bulk Setttings in many ways
PWD protect a category
Improve the Search- vastly improve it!

Prior Threads:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=101208
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=79593
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=71342
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=57396
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47572
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=40139
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29858
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=23482
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=1349

[omonra21]

Got an idea? Give it to us here. All of the SmugMug crew read this thread so feel free to share your ideas. Go ahead, let us have it.



I would like to request that visitors be given the option to show either ALBUMS or CATEGORIES on the front page. More specifically, that the site owner can control whether visitors have the option.
I find the current either/or paradigm very stifling. People who know me probably want to see just the latest albums whereas new visitors may want to look at categories. Either way, the option should be there (the button that site owner has now is probably a good way to enable it). If anybody doesn't want to give their visitors this option, they should simply disable it in the customization section.
Could you please let me know if you consider this a good idea and if/when it would be implemented.

--Victor

[agallia]

We need a quick way to see which photos are marked "hidden" in a gallery. As of now, we have to look for a "check mark" on each individual photo. Very awkward and time consuming.

Please consider adding a "flag" (similar to Smugvault icon) to Owner view thumbnails to show all "hidden" photos at a glance. Or maybe something like the Rotate or Delete tools to show all hidden photos together.

[Andy]

We need a quick way to see which photos are marked "hidden" in a gallery. As of now, we have to look for a "check mark" on each individual photo. Very awkward and time consuming.

Please consider adding a "flag" (similar to Smugvault icon) to Owner view thumbnails to show all "hidden" photos at a glance. Or maybe something like the Rotate or Delete tools to show all hidden photos together.
We'll do this. It's on a list already.

[agallia]

We'll do this. It's on a list already. You guys are really great! :bow

[DJ-S1]

The ability to choose the sort order for keyword-generated galleries would be awesome! They can be very powerful but their functionality is hampered with the current newest-to-oldest sort requirements.

[Allen]

We need a quick way to see which photos are marked "hidden" in a gallery. As of now, we have to look for a "check mark" on each individual photo. Very awkward and time consuming.

Please consider adding a "flag" (similar to Smugvault icon) to Owner view thumbnails to show all "hidden" photos at a glance. Or maybe something like the Rotate or Delete tools to show all hidden photos together.
Add the keyword "hidden" to each photo you check hide. Then they can all be
seen in your keyword listing, but by only you logged in.

[ashishpandey]

Add the keyword "hidden" to each photo you check hide. Then they can all be
seen in your keyword listing, but by only you logged in.
Thats 2 steps to do one thing - check hidden and edit keywords. And then we have to make sure that we always keep them in sync (specially when unhiding). Once they go out of sync, the problem comes back to not knowing where the problem may be because we cannot list out the smugmug hidden and cross check with keyworded hidden
IMO, an enhancement on smugmug side should be the way to go in this

[agallia]

Add the keyword "hidden" to each photo you check hide. Then they can all be
seen in your keyword listing, but by only you logged in. Hi, Allen. Okay, that would serve as an awkward workaround for the problem. But I agree with ashishpandey's response, we have to worry about adding/deleting the "hidden" keyword when we hide/unhide each photo. This is a feature request SM needs to consider ASAP. :wink

[papajay]

Hi, Allen. Okay, that would serve as an awkward workaround for the problem. But I agree with ashishpandey's response, we have to worry about adding/deleting the "hidden" keyword when we hide/unhide each photo. This is a feature request SM needs to consider ASAP. :wink

The ability to hide a photo is a good feature. The place(s) where I've encountered some confusion and inefficiency with the capability is in the various editing modes (bulk keyword and caption; arrange drag and drop; etc.)...why spend time adding captions or keywords, or change an arrangement location for a photo I've already decided I'd prefer not be seen? Which also begs the question, Why not have an option to mass delete all the photos I've flagged "hidden"?

I'm hoping the SM enhancement will take this into consideration:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=844590&postcount=34

[agallia]

The ability to hide a photo is a good feature. The place(s) where I've encountered some confusion and inefficiency with the capability is in the various editing modes (bulk keyword and caption; arrange drag and drop; etc.)...why spend time adding captions or keywords, or change an arrangement location for a photo I've already decided I'd prefer not be seen? Which also begs the question, Why not have an option to mass delete all the photos I've flagged "hidden"?

I'm hoping the SM enhancement will take this into consideration:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=844590&postcount=34 Yes. But we need to see all "hidden" photos in gallery to review and perhaps select the ones to delete. Maybe a page similar to one for Tools "many photos delete"...

[agallia]

I know this feature was suggested on past thread...to add Tools for Copy similar to Move tools. Is there any consideration by SM team on this item?

[papajay]

...we need to see all "hidden" photos in gallery to review and perhaps select the ones to delete...

I may have been unclear...yes, all "hidden" photos should display when logged-in as a site owner in all gallery and edit-tool views. It should be obvious in any multi-image view which ones are "hidden" (via a watermark, red "X" or "H" across the thumbnail, colored borders, "flashing lights and horns" :wink ...whatever) and which ones are not.

[MSchuermann]

I'd love to see some basic Facebook Connect support. Note either how Apple has implemented it in the new iLife apps, or on a site like Vimeo. Basically, you link your SmugMug account with your Facebook account through Connect, and then SmugMug can automatically add a "news feed item" whenever you upload new pictures, create a gallery, etc. What could actually be the items of notification could be up to SmugMug, but it would be very nice to have. Apple is doing something similar through some of their iLife apps where if you update your iWeb site, etc., it automatically posts a news feed story to Facebook.

Thanks for the great work!

Michael Schuermann

[agallia]

I know this feature was suggested on past thread...to add Tools for Copy similar to Move tools. Is there any consideration by SM team on this item?Comments?

[RogersDA]

Ones that can be placed on an image and resized/moved as needed relative to that image. Sometimes static watermarks just don't work for some images, and you wind up having to create multiple marks and testing them out to see if they look o.k.

[bkazdan]

Hey guys!

I have been a SmugMug user for quite some time, but thus far haven't been a community member. I figured it is time to change that. I love what SmugMug offers and hopefully I can contribute some ideas to make it even better.

Sometimes when I post a video, I don't want the people viewing it to be able to get back to the gallery. It would be great if there was an option to not have referring links in the flash video. I know that a password protected gallery can handle this, but that is overkill for what I am looking to do. I just want the video not to offer a referral. It would be awesome if this could be offered as a choice in the embed code.
Apple just released a facial recognition product in their iPhoto '09 (http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/#faces)product. This seems like such a cool idea. I'm not sure if it is even possible to do on SmugMug, but if it is, it sure would be a great feature to have!
My wife is a huge fan of Facebook. She loves to share our photos there. It would be great if there were some way to easily move photos back and forth between the two sites.Thanks for listening. All the best!

[pietermn]

Dear Smugmug developers,
Over the past couple of years, there have been multiple requests for variable (bigger) photo sizes in Journal style. Could you let us know if we can expect that feature to happen? If positive, when?

If not, that's also fine but I will no longer be waiting and look for something else.

Thank you very much & have a nice day,

Pieter
:gone

[Andy]

Dear Smugmug developers,
Over the past couple of years, there have been multiple requests for variable (bigger) photo sizes in Journal style. Could you let us know if we can expect that feature to happen? If positive, when?

If not, that's also fine but I will no longer be waiting and look for something else.

Thank you very much & have a nice day,

Pieter
:goneHello, thanks for the FR. You don't list your site, but if you are power or pro, there is a javascript trick to make journal pics larger.

Doing it 'native' in SmugMug is something we'd like to do, {JT}'s got it on a list but it's not at or near the top yet, I'm sorry.

[pietermn]

Hello, thanks for the FR. You don't list your site, but if you are power or pro, there is a javascript trick to make journal pics larger.

Doing it 'native' in SmugMug is something we'd like to do, {JT}'s got it on a list but it's not at or near the top yet, I'm sorry.

Thanks for the information Andy, with the javascript trick, you mean the one described in http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=27067 ?

Best regards,
Pieter
www.pieterenjulia.smugmug.com (http://pieterenjulia.smugmug.com)

[habanr]

I have 3 requests concerning your SmugMaps
#1 Please add GScaleControl() to the javascript code of your map pages. Simply add line
map.addControl(new GScaleControl());
after your

map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
This enables to show actual map scale. Without scale your "maps" are only pictures of a terrain not maps.

#2 Enable to display "Terrain" map
Add javascript line map.addMapType(G_PHYSICAL_MAP) before
map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl()); #3 Enable mouse wheel control of the map scale
Add javascript line map.enableScrollWheelZoom(); Thank you

[Andy]

I have 3 requests concerning your SmugMaps
Thanks!

[tidbitz]

One suggestion for the "Around the world" feature on the home page. Maybe you have this and I haven't found it, but if you don't, I think it would be a good idea.

The map only shows pins for the 150 most recent pictures you have posted. One of the things I would like the map to do is show where I've traveled, so I think it would be nice if you could modify the algorithm slightly to choose one geotag from each gallery (randomly? first picture in the gallery? whatever), then populate the rest of the 150 pins with the recently-posted pictures. That way, you get the breadth of the pins across the map, and the map is a little more useful.

I love the service anyway, but I think this would be a small improvement.

[NWMtnGuy]

I haven't posted this feature request for a couple of years so I'll toss it in again to see if it can get some traction. :wink

1) It would be great if you could limit which gallery styles a visitor could select from. For example, maybe you want them to be able to see "SmugMug" and "All Thumbs" but not "Critique". From a user perspective this seems like the type of thing that could be put in the gallery customization screen -- a user could simply turn on/off gallery styles with checkboxes or something. I realize it's a lot more complicated on the back end of things, but it would still be cool.

2) I would still like the option to rename the "SmugMug" gallery style. I appreciate the branding and I'm all for driving traffic to SmugMug, however the name is unintuitive in that it doesn't provide any useful hint about what the layout looks like, whereas something like "All Thumbs" is pretty obvious. Visitors to my site may know nothing about SmugMug so having "SmugMug" as a layout style is a bit confusing. A name like "Lightbox" would be a lot more useful.

Thanks!
Dale

[NWMtnGuy]

2) I would still like the option to rename the "SmugMug" gallery style. I appreciate the branding and I'm all for driving traffic to SmugMug, however the name is unintuitive in that it doesn't provide any useful hint about what the layout looks like, whereas something like "All Thumbs" is pretty obvious. Visitors to my site may know nothing about SmugMug so having "SmugMug" as a layout style is a bit confusing. A name like "Lightbox" would be a lot more useful.
In response to my own question, one approach would be to add some artwork that hints at the gallery styles. Apple does this on MobileMe galleries and I think it's fairly effective:

26364

Dale

[Andy]

In response to my own question, one approach would be to add some artwork that hints at the gallery styles. Apple does this on MobileMe galleries and I think it's fairly effective:

26364

Dale
Takes about 60 seconds to put this great bit of customizing on your site. http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=111251 And, you can limit the styles.
See? http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1931195_PX2pn#163234748_XebtV :D

[lemieszek]

this was first requested over 3 years ago, and we were told engineers were working on it. apparently that was not the case, so here it goes again.

support for foreign/accented characters in keywords. it's just annoying to have tags like "españa" or "münchen" that display as "espaa" or "mnchen". we've been told developers have a numbers of priorities before this one, but come on... since 2005? I know, I know, it's in the url, it requires some work to be done before it can be implemented... but it's an annoying little bug that's been around for quite some time. I'm sure you have enough foreign users, or even american users who might like to use local names for visited places, to justify the investment.

my subscription expires in about two weeks, and any response to this might define whether I'll migrate to another service or not. this is in no way a threat; just a display of the relevance of the issue - and of the time this request has been kept at the bottom of the priorities list.

thanks.

[habanr]

this was first requested over 3 years ago, and we were told engineers were working on it. apparently that was not the case, so here it goes again.

support for foreign/accented characters in keywords. it's just annoying to have tags like "españa" or "münchen" that display as "espaa" or "mnchen". we've been told developers have a numbers of priorities before this one, but come on... since 2005? I know, I know, it's in the url, it requires some work to be done before it can be implemented... but it's an annoying little bug that's been around for quite some time. I'm sure you have enough foreign users, or even american users who might like to use local names for visited places, to justify the investment.

I agree with you. It's really extremely annoying this bad support for accented characters. It concern's not only keywords by also of SmugMap image labels - surprisingly if you jump from SmugMaps to Google Earth image labels are correct. Also Smugmug Simple image uploader destroys accented UTF8 IPTC data and I have to correct all label by my script from IMatch (Photo managment SW).

[pietermn]

Hello, thanks for the FR. You don't list your site, but if you are power or pro, there is a javascript trick to make journal pics larger.

Doing it 'native' in SmugMug is something we'd like to do, {JT}'s got it on a list but it's not at or near the top yet, I'm sorry.


Sorry for bothering you Andy, but could you let me know if you are referring to this one http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=27067 or another version I'm not aware of. The one I mention here does not work (any longer) in IE.

Thank you,
Pieter
www.pieterenjulia.smugmug.com (http://pieterenjulia.smugmug.com)

[NWMtnGuy]

Takes about 60 seconds to put this great bit of customizing on your site. http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=111251 And, you can limit the styles.
See? http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1931195_PX2pn#163234748_XebtV :D Andy,

Thanks! Seems like last time I asked about this a couple years back everyone told me it wasn't possible. Never saw these particular threads. Cool!

Dale

[jfriend]

Andy,

Thanks! Seems like last time I asked about this a couple years back everyone told me it wasn't possible. Never saw these particular threads. Cool!

Dale It just hadn't been invented as of a couple of years ago.

[chrisedwards]

Right now the keywords in my password-protected gallery's are useless (except to me). They can't be used by people logged into that gallery.

See: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=79889&page=2

The only option in Smugmug's current scheme that could work is for a keyword search to include the keywords from all galleries that you have recently supplied a password for. Galleries that you have not recently supplied a password for would not be searched and matches would not be returned. If you want to search a particular gallery, then just open it (supplying the password in the process) and then search.

A more involved scheme (and probably too complicated to set up and too much work to implement) would involve true access control where you'd create username/pwd combinations and then give a given username/pwd combination access to a given set of galleries. Then, when that user "logged in" to your site, their search would apply to all the galleries you had given them access to.

I would like to see either of these options implemented, or at least a display on the private gallery's page that lists all the keywords in that gallery in similar style to what the homepage does for all public images.

The first option above (remembering which gallery's the visitor has access to, and allowing search of those gallery's) would work very well with the already requested category passwords. That way you could put all of your Family photos in one category and give your family that password.

Another feature down the road that would compliment the above request would be to allow us to give authenticated users to a protected gallery different permissions-- such as allowing anyone authenticated to a gallery in the Family category the ability to change keywords in the photos they have authenticated do.

[delenca]

Mid-way through my trial.
Feature Requests/Suggestions:

1) Allow control of how many thumbnails are shown per page.
2) Allow option to display Filename in lightbox
3) Allow option to display Filename in Slideshow
4) Allow the user to advance slideshow using keyboard arrow keys.
5) In slideshow, pre-load picture N+1 while viewer is looking at picture N.

Rationale:
1) This is an element of customization that allows me to display the pictures as I would prefer them to be seen. I don't have to worry about pictures moving to a 2nd page where they are much less likely to be viewed.
2-3) Simple to implement - consistent with gallery behavior.
4) Allowing the user to advance slideshow fits expected behavior (consistent with lightbox, i.e.) but it makes for a better user experience; every time I move the mouse to advance the picture, the thumbnails pop up, etc - it's a distraction (but I also see a function for the thumbnails, so I don't want to turn them off altogether)
5) Prefetching during the slideshow makes sense. It'll make for a much smoother user experience (especially for the majority of users who don't have uber-fast connections) and it's not wasted bandwidth to prefetch N+1 picture - as it's a safe assumption that if someone clicked on slideshow they are very likely to look at the next picture in the series. I think this also fits with the akamai principle (and which I assume is not being used in slideshow).

My 2 cents,
-Alex

[jfriend]

I'm noticing a trend where more and more people want to just start with a plain theme before customizing. They either want plain black with white text or plain white with black text. Neither seems to exist. As a consequence they start with the black theme and then ask how do they get rid of all the green text (which is a pain when you include all the graphics in the buttons) or they start with the white theme and ask how they get rid of all the fancy shaded borders that don't work with customization.

For these types of customizers, it would be nice to have a plain black and plain white theme to use as a starting point. Plain text colors. No backgrounds. Nothing funny in the extraDivs. Primed for customization.

[winterminute]

Any chance you guys will allow standard accounts to use GA or the other one (sorry I don't remember exactly what it is called)? I realize that you aren't blocking GA for free accounts, but rather you're blocking HTML-level customization for free accounts. However, this is similar to GoogleMaps, you could have said "Sorry, GoogleMaps required you to add this HTML code", but instead you wrote a nice simple wrapper around it to expose it for free accounts. Can you do the same thing for 3rd reporting?

I think we all know that smugmug's default reporting is really really lacking, but I can't justify upgrading to a Pro account just to get better reporting. I'm not a professonal photographer, part budding amateur and part friends-and-family stuff, neither of which justify double the price. If this was a feature that smugmug had developed and part of the business model what to offer better features in the higher priced SKUs that would make sense, but this is a 3rd party solution and doesn't take money away from smugmug or de-value the Pro account.

Smugmug reporting is fine until you get some real traffic and you have more than a handfull of photos per album. A friend suggested Zenfolio, which seems to offer more features for the same price and internet reviews hold both companies in high regard. I've been with smugmug for a couple of years and would hate to jump ship, but not having good reporting is starting to drive me crazy.

Thanks!

[jfriend]

Any chance you guys will allow standard accounts to use GA or the other one (sorry I don't remember exactly what it is called)? I realize that you aren't blocking GA for free accounts, but rather you're blocking HTML-level customization for free accounts. However, this is similar to GoogleMaps, you could have said "Sorry, GoogleMaps required you to add this HTML code", but instead you wrote a nice simple wrapper around it to expose it for free accounts. Can you do the same thing for 3rd reporting?

I think we all know that smugmug's default reporting is really really lacking, but I can't justify upgrading to a Pro account just to get better reporting. I'm not a professonal photographer, part budding amateur and part friends-and-family stuff, neither of which justify double the price. If this was a feature that smugmug had developed and part of the business model what to offer better features in the higher priced SKUs that would make sense, but this is a 3rd party solution and doesn't take money away from smugmug or de-value the Pro account.

Smugmug reporting is fine until you get some real traffic and you have more than a handfull of photos per album. A friend suggested Zenfolio, which seems to offer more features for the same price and internet reviews hold both companies in high regard. I've been with smugmug for a couple of years and would hate to jump ship, but not having good reporting is starting to drive me crazy.

Thanks! Not to take anything away from your request, but I just wanted to make sure that you realize, you don't need a pro account to use analytics like Google Analytics - it just takes a power account at $59.95/yr.

[lemieszek]

this was first requested over 3 years ago, and we were told engineers were working on it. apparently that was not the case, so here it goes again.

support for foreign/accented characters in keywords. it's just annoying to have tags like "españa" or "münchen" that display as "espaa" or "mnchen". we've been told developers have a numbers of priorities before this one, but come on... since 2005? I know, I know, it's in the url, it requires some work to be done before it can be implemented... but it's an annoying little bug that's been around for quite some time. I'm sure you have enough foreign users, or even american users who might like to use local names for visited places, to justify the investment.

my subscription expires in about two weeks, and any response to this might define whether I'll migrate to another service or not. this is in no way a threat; just a display of the relevance of the issue - and of the time this request has been kept at the bottom of the priorities list.

thanks.

I would like to hear anything from the crew on that matter. affirmative or otherwise.

thanks in advance.

[papajay]

Especially when using the bulk caption and keyword editor...the small thumbs are often too small to be useful (e.g. in a group photo situation) when captioning or keywording (can't easily identify the faces in the group in order to caption "L-R, John, Sally, Bob, Jim, etc., etc).

"Hovering" (not clicking to "select") the mouse over the tiny thumb for a brief fraction of a second to temporarily launch a larger (4X, give or take) thumbnail view would be a big help.

I got the idea from the TTLJournal site where they incorporated this functionality in their gallery creation API. I asked them if they could add this functionality in their edit screens and about two days later, voila!...it was done! (It works beautifully...and it is quite helpful, by the way.)

Personally, I would find it useful in the SmugMug arrange sceens, mass delete, etc. ...but the bulk caption and keyword editor would be the "priority" application for this functionality, IMHO.

[Andy]

this was first requested over 3 years ago, and we were told engineers were working on it. apparently that was not the case, so here it goes again.

support for foreign/accented characters in keywords. it's just annoying to have tags like "españa" or "münchen" that display as "espaa" or "mnchen". we've been told developers have a numbers of priorities before this one, but come on... since 2005? I know, I know, it's in the url, it requires some work to be done before it can be implemented... but it's an annoying little bug that's been around for quite some time. I'm sure you have enough foreign users, or even american users who might like to use local names for visited places, to justify the investment.

my subscription expires in about two weeks, and any response to this might define whether I'll migrate to another service or not. this is in no way a threat; just a display of the relevance of the issue - and of the time this request has been kept at the bottom of the priorities list.

thanks.we very much want to do this - it's not trivial, as the utf-8 characters become parts of the urls... and they need special treatment then. Our sorcery team is fully aware of the request - we've not been able to get it done yet, but I'm hopeful we will one day soon. I'm sorry I don't have a more definitive or better answer for you.

[Andy]

Personally, I would find it useful in the SmugMug arrange sceens, mass delete, etc. ...but the bulk caption and keyword editor would be the "priority" application for this functionality, IMHO.
We have it in some of the tools already... maybe we can get it in the caption tool one day, thanks!
http://img.skitch.com/20090126-ku4td1jtd85egsbt2scxu9y651.jpg

[winterminute]

Not to take anything away from your request, but I just wanted to make sure that you realize, you don't need a pro account to use analytics like Google Analytics - it just takes a power account at $59.95/yr.

You're right I was getting pricing/account SKUs mixed up. My original comment still stands that it doesn't feel right to charge people to use a 3rd party feature when it doesn't take away from Smumug's revenue. Is this being talked about or are there no plans to allow standard accounts to use GA?

[Andy]

You're right I was getting pricing/account SKUs mixed up. My original comment still stands that it doesn't feel right to charge people to use a 3rd party feature when it doesn't take away from Smumug's revenue. Is this being talked about or are there no plans to allow standard accounts to use GA?
We'd like to have it for standards. We'll see!

[lemieszek]

we very much want to do this - it's not trivial, as the utf-8 characters become parts of the urls... and they need special treatment then. Our sorcery team is fully aware of the request - we've not been able to get it done yet, but I'm hopeful we will one day soon. I'm sorry I don't have a more definitive or better answer for you.

thank you for your answer. I don't really need a definitive answer, a deadline or anything. it's just that this matter has been around for a while, and people requesting this have been told it was not anywhere near the top of the priorities list (don't remember the exact words). a sincere statement that you're working on it and it'll be implemented whenever it's viable is largely enough for me. if it's in the back burner, saying so would be appreciated as well.

again, thanks for your time.

[xenonsupra]

I post images to forums all the time from my smugmug

it would be really nice to have the ability to check the photos you want and generate links (including img tags) for all those photos to share on a forum.

doing it 1 by 1 is very tedious

[absolutic]

what is the timetable on adding more themes?

[eoren1]

Two suggestions
1st (from the previous thread but does not appear in the summary here): I would like to have the ability to categorize contacts in the email page. Ideally, I would like to be able to select multiple contacts more easily. I typically send gallery updates via a shared photo by email. I have to hunt and choose 7 contacts (grandparents, aunts/uncles) each time. There has to be an easier way...

2nd: Just saw this posted elsewhere:
http://theturninggate.net/lightroom/ttg-iphone-portfolio
Having the possibility of an iPhone/mobile presentation (ie theme) would be incredibly useful.

Thanks,
E

[dwayne]

I dunno, this might be pie in the sky, but here goes...

I have noticed that my current "organization" is becoming, well not organized. When I move photos between galleries I have noticed that my links in forums are broken. Would there be a way to move photos between galleries and catagories without loosing the links?

[jfriend]

I dunno, this might be pie in the sky, but here goes...

I have noticed that my current "organization" is becoming, well not organized. When I move photos between galleries I have noticed that my links in forums are broken. Would there be a way to move photos between galleries and catagories without loosing the links? If you use Move Photo to move a photo between galleries, the direct link to the photo does not change. So that means that I can move this image: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/photos/344291068_HdnTo-L.jpg (http://jfriend.smugmug.com/photos/344291068_HdnTo-L.jpg) to any gallery and this direct link to the image will not change, thus preserving any external links to it I have already done (forums, etc...). The only caveat is that you have to make sure the new gallery has "external linking" enabled and that the image is not marked hidden in the new gallery.

The link to the page that the image is shown on in the gallery like this (http://jfriend.smugmug.com/gallery/5608869_vwzCG#344291068_HdnTo (http://jfriend.smugmug.com/gallery/5608869_vwzCG#344291068_HdnTo)) will change when you move the image to a new gallery because this is a gallery link, not an image link and you moved it to a new gallery so it has to be a different gallery link.

To summarize, if you link directly to the image, it's link will not change if you move the image to a new gallery. If you link to the gallery page, that link will change when you move it to a new gallery (because it's a different gallery so the link to that gallery has to be different).

[Linh]

On the video side of things, I'd like to have the ability to jump to any part of the video from the get go. I was thrilled when you could finally do it in youtube. Hulu was the first thing I saw that did it well barely skipping a beat (well, before it got really popular).

[Lamah]

If you use "Save for web" in Photoshop CS4 to save a photo, and you choose to include all metadata (including shooting information), it doesn't write EXIF information. All the information that would be written as EXIF gets written as in XMP format instead.

It'd be great if Smugmug could read this information.

[lemieszek]

it would be great to be able to just drag and drop, or to attribute frequently or recently used tags to the photos you're viewing. it could be nice to just scroll through the photos and just pick tags you could use for each picture instead of manually typing them. the current bulk edit mode is great; it's just that it could use this simple upgrade.

[everydaymemories]

I organize my photos by making a gallery for each date I have photos. Often I have wished that I could navigate to my next or previous gallery directly, rather than backing out of the one I'm finishing looking at to the main page to go to another gallery. I realize this doesn't make sense if you're organizing by theme, not date, but maybe there is a way. I hope I explained that well.

[Evan78]

It would be great if visitors could download a whole album as a zip file.

I already allow this by zipping the files, uploading to my website, and providing a link in the description of an album, but something that works on the fly would be even better and would do the job for those that don't know how to take the extra steps that I do. I'm familiar with all the great uploaders and downloaders already out there, but obviously those take many more steps than simply clicking a link or two.

I tell everyone that will listen how great smugmug is, but this is a feature that is keeping a couple friends on Picasa instead of making the switch. I believe the Apple/Mac site allows this as well.

[Mr. Frog]

I'd love to see some basic Facebook Connect support. Note either how Apple has implemented it in the new iLife apps, or on a site like Vimeo. Basically, you link your SmugMug account with your Facebook account through Connect, and then SmugMug can automatically add a "news feed item" whenever you upload new pictures, create a gallery, etc. What could actually be the items of notification could be up to SmugMug, but it would be very nice to have. Apple is doing something similar through some of their iLife apps where if you update your iWeb site, etc., it automatically posts a news feed story to Facebook.


Yeah I would like to have something like that too on Facebook!

Also, I would like to have face/things taggings, just like iPhoto'09, Facebook and Flickr and it could be awesome if this could be exported/synched with iPhoto with the Connect thing. It's really something I would like, since almost all other photos websites offer this now.

Also, it could be nice to be able to add a google map in each Category / Gallery, just like on the front page, with the pictures of that Category / Gallery.

When arranging the order of the galleries, having a Drag'n Drop way to do it would be great, using the arrows on the left sidebar isn't really that functionnal.

When rotating pictures, it could be fun to have a better way of doing it, rotating the thumbnail live or something, to have a real visual feedback of what we did and on which picture we did it!

For the videos, on my Power account, 150 seconds isn't a lot, I don't take big videos, but having at least 4-5 minutes in DVD quality would be way better. I don't want to pay for the Pro account for HD, I don't have any HD yet and I don't have that much video to put.

Being able to download a complet album in a .zip file would be nice also.

And, accentued characters / UTF-8, éàëöê, yeah, add this to my wish list too! ;)

Thanks a lot!

-Cedric

[EJP Photo]

I know that "virtual galleries" comes up in every one of these threads and it's even in the first post... but still, I can't emphasize enough how that's a desperately needed feature. Uploading the same photo multiple times to multiple galleries is just impossibly difficult to manage.

Other than that, I suppose my number one feature request at the moment would be to be able to offer "Custom framing through Imagekind" to customers and site visitors. I really like Imagekind, and the integration released a few months ago is very nicely done, it would be great to just take this to the next level, especially as Smugmug currently offers no framing options itself.

[tarheels]

It would be great if persons using the site-wide viewing password could see keywords. Right now, if your entire site is protected, only the owner can see keywords once logged in.

Example of how this would help:
Your site is locked-down due to company policies. There is one "admin" in the company that maintains the photos and therefore uses the admin account. However, there are lots of people in the company that use the "viewing password" to view and pull photos for use in web, print, etc. Those people are handicapted because they can only use the galleries and categories to navigate because the keywords only show for the admin/owner. Making keywords show for people who are using the site viewing password would remedy that.

[encosion]

Just had a great idea to embed the full screen slideshow button from a gallery in a blog post... Alas, I could figure out how to hack it myself though... But pretty please consider it?

[AngryScot]

PLEASE!!!!!!
:bow:bow:bow

Gmail from phone doesn't work for email upload :cry
Why all the love for iphone and the rest of us have to suffer :scratch

Thank you!
Smugmug rocks! :clap

[RustyBucket]

Good Morning -

After entering the "Buy" button on the user gallery page to purchase pics, it takes you to the purchasing page. From there you go to the "Checkout" page. If you push the "Home" button at the top of the page, it sends you to the Smugmug site instead of returning to the users site. Can this be changed to returned to users site ? Or better yet, remove the whole line of info and just have the "continue to Browse" button.

Thanks,

[YTSEman]

It would be nice and from my POV very easy to do (if you have right design/implementation) to support localization of smugmug pages into different language. Now I have to use very complicated javascript to be able to do it and on your side it could be solved by very simple form where I just specify mapping of english words to the new ones.

I think this is certainly required by lot of international users so you probably already heard of it.

Second idea is similar - it would be great to allow UTF-8 characters in the name of (sub)category (seems like your db is not in UTF-8 :) ).

Any plans/dates/suggestions?

Thanks,
Petr

[ryness]

I didn't read through all the prior posts in this thread so forgive if this has been raised before:

General organizational interface to manage pictures and galleries in categories and subcategories is a clunky PITA. Please overhaul to make it easy to manage large numbers of photos in lots of galleries with various options for category or tag display.

[Andy]

give us timeline feed!

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=119856



:D Ok, it's done and live :thumb

http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/2009/02/13/contact-a-hero-and-bug-fixes-february-12-2009/

[RustyBucket]

Andy -

Just looked at the work that you did on the gallery page for me and hopefully for others. It's a terrific header ! ! !

Many thanks to you and your staff for the support that you provide to people like me........

Rusty Russ :barb
ID# pho395

[jchin]

Can it be possible to "dim" the thumbnails of hidden photos?
That would make it a lot easier to see which ones were marked "hide photo" when you have lots of photos in a gallery.
Thanks.

[jchin]

Takes about 60 seconds to put this great bit of customizing on your site. http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=111251 And, you can limit the styles.
See? http://andydemo.smugmug.com/gallery/1931195_PX2pn#163234748_XebtV :D

Andy, how did you change the style names in that demo gallery?

[apexonephoto]

I have been here for almost 3 years, and would like to start by saying that everyone at SmugMug has been great. Can we get Google Image Search to work ever.

[I Simonius]

I notice that when I have the file number below a pic, if I click on capt9o to add text the file number gets killed

I would much rather have it that the file number automatically starts the caption or at least remains as oart of the caption somehow

AS it is I have to copy the file number before clicking the caption option then paste the file number

[Allen]

I notice that when I have the file number below a pic, if I click on capt9o to add text the file number gets killed

I would much rather have it that the file number automatically starts the caption or at least remains as oart of the caption somehow

AS it is I have to copy the file number before clicking the caption option then paste the file number
You could add this to expose the filenames.

#fileNameBoxWrapper {display: block;}
or
.notLoggedIn #fileNameBoxWrapper {display: none;}

[I Simonius]

You could add this to expose the filenames.

#fileNameBoxWrapper {display: block;}
or
.notLoggedIn #fileNameBoxWrapper {display: none;}


Thanks Allen biut where would I put it in the customise box, anywhere or does it need to be at a certain point in relation to all the other css there?

[Allen]

Thanks Allen biut where would I put it in the customise box, anywhere or does it need to be at a certain point in relation to all the other css there?
You can add it anywhere. If added at the bottom and doesn't work there is
an error somewhere above.

[MichaelKirk]

Not sure if this was posted already, but this is a request I have seen for quite a while, but no updates that I have come across.

Looking for the ability to sell websized downloads. Something like 72dpi with max length at 800 px or so.

Michael

[Andy]

Not sure if this was posted already, but this is a request I have seen for quite a while, but no updates that I have come across.

Looking for the ability to sell websized downloads. Something like 72dpi with max length at 800 px or so.

MichaelYeah I hope we'll add those. For now, you can make them yourself, and call them "original" and sell them that way.

[MichaelKirk]

Yeah I hope we'll add those. For now, you can make them yourself, and call them "original" and sell them that way.

Not quite following you Andy on thsi "work around"
I assume this would mean to have a second copy of an image that would be uploaded as Low resolution as sold as a download "original? If this is the case, it would be fine other tham most of the people requesting this feature are sports photogs that are uploading a galler sometimes with 1000 images....having a 2nd copy of all these images would be just too confusing for use and the buyers......unless I'm reading into your suggestion wrong.

Michael

[Andy]

Not quite following you Andy on thsi "work around"

It's not an ideal thing - I was only showing you that you could do it if you had a few to do - hundreds, thousands - you probably wanna wait for us to do it.

[SethStevenson]

I would love to see the subcategory field show up in more RSS feeds, specifically the recent galleries feed.

[I Simonius]

You can add it anywhere. If added at the bottom and doesn't work there is
an error somewhere above.

Thanks Allen, that worked where the filename was short but I notice sometimes where the filenema eis long e.g. IMG_1234_5_6.copy, instead of offering the 'edit' link after the fileneame it sometimes says 'add caption' instead, when I click on that the filename still dissapears.

Im not really sure what thats about do you have any more suggestions please?

thanks

[Allen]

Thanks Allen, that worked where the filename was short but I notice sometimes where the filenema eis long e.g. IMG_1234_5_6.copy, instead of offering the 'edit' link after the fileneame it sometimes says 'add caption' instead, when I click on that the filename still dissapears.

Im not really sure what thats about do you have any more suggestions please?

thanks
I see the filename below the caption. Blank captions are automatically filled
with the filename and the only way I've found to override this is add some
dummy html like <> to the caption.

IMG_1582

Filename: IMG_1582

keywords: festival car......

[I Simonius]

I see the filename below the caption. Blank captions are automatically filled
with the filename and the only way I've found to override this is add some
dummy html like <> to the caption.

IMG_1582

Filename: IMG_1582

keywords: festival car......

Thanks for your reply but Im sorry I dont really understand. Nevermind it's not a huge problem:wink

[eccentricreality]

Hi Team,
One thing that has frustrated me thus far is that the only plan level to have a custom watermark feature is the Pro level.

As a blogger I would love to have an account at the Mid level (cant remember the plan name but the one down from pro) and the only extra feature I need is to be able to custom watermark.

Main reason is that as a blogger, I often have a lot of my images ripped off by people reading my blog so I need to watermark them and while I could do that prior to uploading them it means that I loose the added benefit of having the non watermarked versions backed up etc.

I feel that if this option was added to the mid level plan it would be a perfect plan for bloggers to use at a really affordable price point.
Cheers
Stuart

[AyatinGL]

I have a simple suggestion for an improvement to customizing galleries. I would like to see the option to set the largest size available to "Small" so viewers can only see thumbnail-like pictures. That way, if they are interested in using a full-size version of one of your pictures they have to come to you first (for you to set the largest available size to a larger size than "Small") and cannot simply download a copy from SmugMug on his / her own. Thanks.

[Mr. Frog]

Hi again,

Being able to geotag a complete album, a bit like iPhoto'09 and Gallery do, it would be cool!
99% of my pictures aren't Geotagged, and since I have more than 9000 pictures, I would like to be able to just geotag a complete album of pictures, instead of 1 picture at the time.

Thanks!

[marius-c]

First off, I would definitely like to geotag an entire album too.

Second, I would like to be able to invite someone to a passworded gallery without them having to put in the password. I was thinking that there could be a button you could press which gives you a link the visitor can access for a brief period of time (ex. 5-10min) after which the link expires. The link can also expire once the visitor has accessed it. It might be a good idea for the system to record which IP accessed the link.

Also, I would like to be able to customize the "popular photos" gallery like any other gallery (by going to Tools>This Gallery>Customize Gallery).

[jinspin]

I was thinking how great it would be to integrate with facebook so that you can tag people and it would show up in facebook or vice versa.

[mattwright]

General organizational interface to manage pictures and galleries in categories and subcategories is a clunky PITA. Please overhaul to make it easy to manage large numbers of photos in lots of galleries with various options for category or tag display.
One idea I had for this is that an FTP upload option would be nice -- for some reason I just prefer this over browser-based uploads. It would also make photo management easy if a custom FTP server was written. When logged in, it would show you a directory structure based on existing category and subcategory names and then show your files with the original file names... Then you could just manage your SmugMug account via FTP.

Creating a directory would create a category or subcategory of that name
Adding files to that directory would add the images to your gallery
Deleting files from that directory would delete them from your gallery
Uploading a file of the same name would be identical to replacing it via web

I guess writing a custom FTP server might be more work than SmugMug wants to put into file upload, but it might not be that bad to hack some existing perl ftp server code to interface with the API to perform all these behaviors...

Matt

[eoren1]

I'm in the market (I think) for the Canon 85/1.8 and thought I would look at smugmug for photos shot with that focal length. I found that the results are limited to those images tagged with the focal length or which have it in their description. It would be great if Smugmug could also search Exif data to provide search results based on focal length (and perhaps aperture, camera body, etc).
Thanks,
E

[chishooter]

Sorry in advance if this is here somewhere in these 9 pages....

I have a site with Joomla, and my work was helped so much because the templates have div names. I know what part of the template is "breadcrumbs" or "user" for example. The editable regions all have a unique name. I used Firefox web developer to experiment editing CSS and HTML on my smugmug site, and had to search through all the code to find, for example, where my sitename appeared on the home page, because I didn't know what that was called. Then I thought it was a breadcrumb, but it wasn't, after trying to tweak the breadcrumb feature.

Anyway, no complaints, just a suggestion. I have a bit of experience with coding, so really love the helps Joomla has given in terms of div names.
Hope that makes sense.

[jfriend]

I'm in the market (I think) for the Canon 85/1.8 and thought I would look at smugmug for photos shot with that focal length. I found that the results are limited to those images tagged with the focal length or which have it in their description. It would be great if Smugmug could also search Exif data to provide search results based on focal length (and perhaps aperture, camera body, etc).
Thanks,
E

pbase is the easiest site to search for photos taken with a particular lens. Here's the link (http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/ef_85_18u). You just do a search by camera, select Canon, then pick the lens you want from the long list. This link is the for Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM.

[eoren1]

pbase is the easiest site to search for photos taken with a particular lens. Here's the link (http://www.pbase.com/cameras/canon/ef_85_18u). You just do a search by camera, select Canon, then pick the lens you want from the long list. This link is the for Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM.

Hey John.
Thanks for that. I actually removed the sentence from my post stating that I knew pBase offered that function. Just seems that it would be a useful tool on here as well.
E

[jfriend]

Hey John.
Thanks for that. I actually removed the sentence from my post stating that I knew pBase offered that function. Just seems that it would be a useful tool on here as well.
E Yeah, requested many times. Doesn't appear to be something Smugmug is interested in doing vs. their other priorities. pbase works for my occasional needs in this regard (as long as they stay in business).

[colourbox]

As Smugmug adds more cool features and changes how some options work like privacy settings, I sometimes view the customizations in old galleries and find that their original settings are no longer optimal in light of more recent Smugmug changes. There is no way that I know of to show gallery settings in bulk so that I can easily find these galleries and apply a new preset.

I'd like to see a spreadsheet-like "list view" of galleries where you can quickly look down the table and see the settings for each gallery. It would be cool if I could click a category, then switch to spreadsheet view and look down the columns for various Customize settings for all the galleries in that category.

Otherwise, or in addition to that, I'd like to see a search function for logged-in users only, where I could specify...

Find all galleries in category
"Events"
where:
"Hello world" = Yes
and
"Protected" = No

[Allen]

Auto fill the photo quantity with the number one when a photo is added to the
cart. Can't think of any reason why anyone would not want at least one. If
they continue browsing or if back to gallery is clicked without any quantity
all cart items are lost.
Ref http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=122200

[YTSEman]

Hi,
it would help me a lot (and I mean really a LOT) if I could use UTF-8 characters in the name of category. Characters like ěščřžýáíé. So if it is possible (at least a little bit) could you please allow it?

Thanks,
Petr

[redspice]

Some feature requests that would really help me out:

The ability to assign a friendly URL to a gallery. (I like to print the Gallery URL for the event I'm taking pictures at on clear labels and put them on the back of my business cards to hand out at the event. With all of the case-sensitive stuff in the URL, it's really difficult to have someone re-type that in to their browser from my business card. Something like Tinyurl would be great!)
When you create a Sharegroup, the ability to define a password at the Sharegoup level, and have it override any passwords already at the gallery level. What good is it to create a sharegroup, if the galleries inside all have different passwords?
Password protect at the category or subcategory level. (I think this one has been mentioned before)Thanks!

Jen

[timk519]

Have the names on the list of galleries one can move a picture be more descriptive, maybe like an inverted gallery name hierarchy.

For instance, instead of just 'advrider' it could be "advrider - photography' (which would refer to the "advrider" gallery in the "photography" category).

[image360]

would like to add a request to allow 360 VRs in Flash, this is quite a bit of the current work that I do, and it would be a great way to add yet one more thing about smugmug that's better than the other options.

there are multiple viable flash 360 engines in the marketplace, most you have to buy into, a few are open source.

any of the ones you might consider as worthwhile are: (in no particular order)

FPP (Flash Panorama Player)
KRPano
Pano2VR
Panosalado (open source)

All of these allow for full screen presentation and are best used with Flash 10. Each one has it's own unique extended feature set but for the most part all present about the same quality of viewing, not quite as good as quicktime and no where near as good as a few of the viewers in Shockwave or a few other ones, but alas those are either windows or mac specific and/or require a plugin download/install and hence not really viable for mass presentation. And FYI it would be a waste of time to support 360s using something other than flash now, Quicktime is on it's way out unless Apple gets serious again about a area they created and Java based presentations are pretty much only used in low end real estate virtual tours anymore as the quality is just not there.

It would be great if you could support those four viewers, you might get a large membership bump from the 360 crowd which today by and large host their own sites as not one photo site that I'm aware of allows for even a simple presentation suitable for large panoramas and/or certainly full sphericals VRs.

What do you think? Anyone else out there excited by this request?

www.robertharshman.com (http://www.robertharshman.com)

image360.smugmug.com

Regards,

Robert

[Allen]

SmugMug Classic shown here (http://themes.smugmug.com/gallery/1101154_5tEkv#51216291_uGDig) is with black background. Can both the white
and black background gallery examples be shown on this page (http://themes.smugmug.com/Smug)?

SmugMug Classic (black background)
SmugMug Classic (white background)

It would also be nice if for each theme that a photo (screen shot) of each
type of page, homepage, category, etc. be added using the theme.

[Freeheelvrmnt]

Is it possible to get an RSS feed of new galleries within a category? I do a lot of shooting for a local band and would like to provide a feed that has photos of recent shows. I have all of their photos in a category here: http://benjamindbloom.smugmug.com/The%20Grift I spent some time trying to hack the feed URL to see if I could get what I want, but wasn't able to find the right combination of parameters. Is it possible? Thanks!

[RogersDA]

Right now you can enable emailing photos, but they all go straight to a generic gallery (a gallery named "email").

Why can't we have an option to set a option in a gallery to receive or not receive photos to that specific gallery?

Passwords could be user-created for each gallery, or at least just have one user-created password for all email-enabled galleries.

The email could be To: GalleryID@Username.smugmug.com, Subj: password

This format is not much different than what is currently in place. This way the GalleryKey is not publicized, and the user-generated password keeps random/spam email from infecting the gallery.

[Andy]

Is it possible to get an RSS feed of new galleries within a category? I do a lot of shooting for a local band and would like to provide a feed that has photos of recent shows. I have all of their photos in a category here: http://benjamindbloom.smugmug.com/The%20Grift I spent some time trying to hack the feed URL to see if I could get what I want, but wasn't able to find the right combination of parameters. Is it possible? Thanks!Thx for the FR!

[Scott Myers]

I'd like to see:

Email to customer w/o Smugmug logo

Album/Favorites for customers

Option to copy/paste a bunch of email addresses, rather than entering them into the address book

Ability to purchase video downloads

Different navigation options, or at least a better looking option. I hate that people have to hover over the little teeny "next" to see the next photo. Maybe a gallery style that lets one click on the photo proceed to the next one, or a larger graphic button on either side of the large photo in Smugmug style?

Scott Myers

[Turboluv]

Hmmm, I'm not interested in coupons or packages.
I'm interested in my customer telling me which pictures they would like
for me to order for them, pictures they paid me for, in advance, many
months ago, before they ever made it to smug.

See, I am a wedding photographer, I pre-sale wedding packages that
"include" portraits.

After I post the wedding images online, it would be nice if my brides
could tell me which prints they want for their wedding album.

Then I login and "send them to print" with the click of a button.

I need an easier way to fulfill my brides pre-paid wedding album portraits.

As of now, brides email me a long list of image numbers, then I have to
"pull them" from their wedding dvd, and then send them off to print.
Very time consuming and tedious.

If a bride selected all her favorites in her little smugmug gallery,
then hit the "Send Photographer Your Favorites" button, I could login
and pay for them and send them off to print via SM.

This would save an enourmous amount of work, on my part, and on that of the bride.

[DSmilerGrinster]

Hello,

Please add my vote for the ability to secure a category or subcategory with a password. On my home page, I would like to have a category called "Reserved" that is password protected. Within that category would be subcategories (what would normally be categories) such as "Travel", "Events", "Kids", etc.

This would let me have a password protected section of my public home page that contains galleries protected by a common password. Public users wouldn't be able to see the names or thumbnails of those protected galleries since they can't get past the "Reserved" category password prompt. (or is there a way to get this type of functionality now using the existing Smugmug?).

Also, please add my vote for transcoding of uploaded videos to the Flash format or the ability to upload native FLV files that could then be viewed in the Flash format.

Thanks for a great service!

[jfriend]

The password page has a bunch of text that doesn't have any CSS identifiers. In particular, people want to get rid of the text that says:

"Stuck? Email a real person (http://www.dgrin.com/) for help."

but there is no way to do that with just CSS. This seems particularly bad for pros who want minimal Smugmug branding or would rather have their own text there.

Please add unique CSS identifiers to all text in the password page.

[Andy]

The password page has a bunch of text that doesn't have any CSS identifiers. In particular, people want to get rid of the text that says:

"Stuck? Email a real person (http://www.dgrin.com/) YE.onDOMReady(function() { SM.buttons.contactUsButton = new SM.buttons.contactUs('contactUsButtonWrapper','con tactUsButton',{buttonText: 'a real person', panelTitle: 'Ask Real People', currentPage: '/gallery/7508145_Nbgxt', currentPageOverride: 'gallery/password', referringPage: 'http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=122910', pro: '', modal: true}); }); for help."

but there is no way to do that with just CSS. This seems particularly bad for pros who want minimal Smugmug branding or would rather have their own text there.

Please add unique CSS identifiers to all text in the password page.We're doing some more modifications to this page, thanks John.

[PHOTOlink]

with a GUEST login, we had a way to only let guests download images, without having
access to the control panel area, or other sensitive areas that their otherwise sticky
fingers may wander to....

[rmwphoto]

Hi
I love the layout of smugMug
There's two things i wish you could copy from flickr
is there uploader and there stats page is amazing.
those two things would make SmugMug perfect.
The stats page is so picture specific.

[chrismoore]

More control over the watermark- in addition to a slider for opacity, it would help to have a slider for size (maybe %) and a slider for offset (maybe I don't want it ALL the way at the bottom of the photo, an offset slider could be used to tweak the positioning a little without having to go back to photoshop and recreate the watermark). Would be nice also if watermark controls were individualized for galleries, and not just a global setting per watermark.

[MichaelKirk]

Andy,
I had brought this up last year, thought I'd bring it up again.

Feature request is to update our contacts/customers list.

- ability to split our customers email/contact info into several groups so we can send emails to specific target customer groups
- ability to "add all" instead of having to add one at a time. This is quite tedious when you have 500+ contacts!
- ability to see more info than just the contacts name and email only when you hold the curser over a name. When emails are rejected and we want to delete the customer (as outdated), our email notifications only show what email was undeliverable and not a name. becomes quite impossible searching thru a large list of names looking for an email address to remove.

I'm sure there are some more, but these work for me
....have this finished next week :wink

Michael

[Ceazar77]

Hello,

Please add my vote for the ability to secure a category or subcategory with a password.

I'll add my vote to this as well. Although we can currently password protect each album, once you have you can no longer see the thumbnails. If you could protect an entire category (or subcategory) with a password and then allow those that are inside to see all the albums like they would if they weren't locked, I think it would make the experience of our guests more enjoyable.

[devbobo]

Hi,
it would help me a lot (and I mean really a LOT) if I could use UTF-8 characters in the name of category. Characters like ěščřžýáíé. So if it is possible (at least a little bit) could you please allow it?

Thanks,
Petr

we support utf-8 for categories, subcategories and communities now :thumb

[image360]

would like to add a request to allow 360 VRs in Flash, this is quite a bit of the current work that I do, and it would be a great way to add yet one more thing about smugmug that's better than the other options.

there are multiple viable flash 360 engines in the marketplace, most you have to buy into, a few are open source.

any of the ones you might consider as worthwhile are: (in no particular order)

FPP (Flash Panorama Player)
KRPano
Pano2VR
Panosalado (open source)

All of these allow for full screen presentation and are best used with Flash 10. Each one has it's own unique extended feature set but for the most part all present about the same quality of viewing, not quite as good as quicktime and no where near as good as a few of the viewers in Shockwave or a few other ones, but alas those are either windows or mac specific and/or require a plugin download/install and hence not really viable for mass presentation. And FYI it would be a waste of time to support 360s using something other than flash now, Quicktime is on it's way out unless Apple gets serious again about a area they created and Java based presentations are pretty much only used in low end real estate virtual tours anymore as the quality is just not there.

It would be great if you could support those four viewers, you might get a large membership bump from the 360 crowd which today by and large host their own sites as not one photo site that I'm aware of allows for even a simple presentation suitable for large panoramas and/or certainly full sphericals VRs.

What do you think? Anyone else out there excited by this request?

www.robertharshman.com (http://www.robertharshman.com)

image360.smugmug.com

Regards,

Robert

Is this just a non starter? I thought this was the place to request NEW features, just ask.....or is this so far beyond what's possible here that's it not worth even responding to? I thought smugmug staff checked this thread ?

Regards,

Robert

[bkz]

I am posting pictures from swim meets to Private Galleries. I would like to group several Private Galleries into a single Private Category. I want to be able to link visitors to a single category page that would list several related private galleries and allow users to move between them without leaving Smugmug. The category page wouldn't have a breadcrumb trail back to my personal homepage. Currently I have to set up separate links on a website, each pointing to a different private gallery. It would be much more convenient and a better experience to have users stay within Smugmug as they move between galleries. I don't see how to do that currently without having a link to my homepage appear.

[jfriend]

I am posting pictures from swim meets to Private Galleries. I would like to group several Private Galleries into a single Private Category. I want to be able to link visitors to a single category page that would list several related private galleries and allow users to move between them without leaving Smugmug. The category page wouldn't have a breadcrumb trail back to my personal homepage. Currently I have to set up separate links on a website, each pointing to a different private gallery. It would be much more convenient and a better experience to have users stay within Smugmug as they move between galleries. I don't see how to do that currently without having a link to my homepage appear.

You should read about sharegroups (http://www.smugmug.com/help/share-groups) as I think they are exactly for your situation.

[bkz]

Sharegroups are close but I believe they have a link to the homepage.

[jfriend]

Sharegroups are close but I believe they have a link to the homepage.

This CSS will hide the breadcrumb navigation in all your sharegroups (when you are not logged in):

.notLoggedIn .shareHomepage #breadcrumb {display:none;}

[YTSEman]

Hi,
in journal gallery style there is hardcoded style at the photos. It is on the path #journal .journal_entry .photo.left div. It would be really great if this is part of some class cause the customization of the journal entry photo would be much more easier then.

Thanks,
Petr

[risoldi]

It would be really nice if one could download a whole album as a zip file directly from a link on the website. Using 3rd party apps is not good as it requires software installation and login - two no-nos when using smugmug to share photos with friends.

Great user experience until now, apart from this.

[Pindy]

You know what I REALLY want? I want to create photobooks that others can purchase on my Pro site.

I created a 40-page memorial book in Aperture a few months ago and have interested parties from fellow loved ones who want copies. Being such a sensitive thing, I am put off by the idea of having to call people to get money, place an order by proxy, wait for them to arrive, then ship them out. It puts an ugly spin on an already unpleasant situation. I'd like for anybody who is interested to go online and buy it.

I have it on good authority that Shutterfly has this feature. Since Smuggy has two bookmakers in it's fold, can we not have some sort of "sellable projects" concept? MyCanvas has a My Projects page, but there's no indication it's available to anyone other than me.

[Andy]

it's a great idea and we'd love to have it one day.
Thanks for telling us like it is :D

[Pindy]

it's a great idea and we'd love to have it one day.
Thanks for telling us like it is

I don't know if my eyes deceive me, but it looks as if MyCanvas has this feature already:

http://pindy.smugmug.com/photos/491212971_aKbge-M.png

*** LATER ***

I'm delighted to report that this works exactly as I'd hoped. This is no longer a "feature request" but rather a "feature confirmation"!

[Everglows]

Hi there, one thing I find missing in SmugMug is granular user access control. I found an old thread about it:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=53927&highlight=user+access+control

I came from Flickr and like being able to identify logged in users as friends and family, although it is not as fine-grained as I would like. I'm loving all the other features SmugMug has right now. :lust However, I think that Sharegroups and gallery-level password is too wide of an access control. Here is my situation:
I have photos that the public can view
I have photos that I want to share with close family and friends.
I can make galleries hidden, password protected and shared with a Sharegroup
I may also have photos that I want to share with other groups of friends or certain family members
Some of these photos may be ones that are already in galleries for family and friends (2nd category above)
Since passwords are at the gallery level, that means I would have to duplicate photos into another gallery with different passwords for different groups of people I want to share with
I usually have a group of related photos (e.g. of an event) where some photos are public and some are private (shared with limited people)
The gallery-level access control means that I would need to have at least two galleries: one public and one that is hidden and password protected
I would have preferred to have a single *public* gallery with certain photos that are restricted/password protected My feature request:
Allow individual photos to be protected with a user access list, almost like an access control list in a file system.
Of course, this would also require visitors to be authenticated, perhaps with a visitor account that is only used for viewing protected photosIf someone has different ways to do what I need using existing SmugMug features, besides what I have already described, I would love to hear it. I am open to ideas, although I hope that our SmugMug Heroes are also open to this feature request. :D


Thanks!

[RogersDA]

Using a galleries with all thumbs set provide a way to allow clicking on the image to go right to the lightbox instead of opening the image in a small window with scrollbars. That wojld be consistent with the other views in Smugmug.

[Ceazar77]

I know I have read it elsewhere, but I can't find this request in this thread.

Right now when someone orders pictures from my gallery they get a package from one of the labs with smugmug plastered all over it.

It would be very usefull if this packaging could be co-branded to include the photographers information. I would be willing to pay an optional fee to have smugmug removed entirely from the packaging so that it looks like I have repackaged the pictures myself.

[Allen]

Using a galleries with all thumbs set provide a way to allow clicking on the image to go right to the lightbox instead of opening the image in a small window with scrollbars. That wojld be consistent with the other views in Smugmug.
You would lose all of the photo info doing this like the exif data. Also anyone
with html in the caption would be lost.

[RogersDA]

You would lose all of the photo info doing this like the exif data. Also anyone
with html in the caption would be lost.Hey Allen -

Grandmom wants to see a lot of thumbnails, but not thousands per page. She would like to click on the thumbnail to see the image bigger, but it keeps opening up in a scrolled window.

I would be willing (for her granddaughter galleries) to forgo captions and EXIF (she has no clue what that is) if she was happy. But that's just me.

[ansel4]

One thing that Zenfolio offers is a payment of profits from print or downloads sales to their pro account customers anytime they want, upon request, using Paypal. This would save the cost of printing and mailing a check and enable those users that down sell high volumes to get paid whenever they want. You could also offer this as a payment option to save the cost of printing and mailing a check even for those over the $500 minimum.

[omonra21]

I'd like to request the creation of a "What's New" section that I could add to the homepage. It would show either a specified number of galleries OR go back a certian amout of time (X weeks/months).

Current timeline feature is fairly inadequate for this purpose (imho) as it thows all pictures in one pot. If you post a lot of different material, your visitors are not interested to view them all at once without context. Fotki's imlementation of this feature was well done. I think this would be the most useful feature of the homepage after the slideshow (way above keywords/favorite photos/maps/etc).

A kind gentleman has started an effort as a hack inside the bio section - pls see here: http://www.chrisgrimble.com/?p=10&cpage=1#comment-18 but it's not yet working 100% and is done inside the bio box (whereas a separate customizable section would be much preferred)

Thanks,

[tiagocdc]

hello everyone

i'm a new user, w/ a pro account. i recently came accross some trouble w/ the automatic smugmug ads that show up on google searches. i started a thread about it, and received generous help from sebastian and from denise goldberg. since this is the feature request thread, i'd like to leave a copy of the suggestion i made about this particular feature at the end of our original thread:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1069008

"i would like take this opportunity to suggest to the smugmug programmers to get rid of this feature (the automatic smugmug ads when there is no gallery description), since i don't think it is of any real benefit to the service, and definitely of no benefit to the pro users.

as i said initially, i am very happy w/ the services provided: the powerful photo albums and the many customization options make for a very professional looking result with a very competitive price. and so I find it more than fair to have the 'powered by smugmug' credit on the site. i don't think smugmug needs the extra advertising in the search results, and it definitely takes away from the 'professional' look to have one's site described on google as a generic photo-sharing service. and even though there's a solution to that, it is not immediate since it needs to wait for the next 'crawl'..."

congrtulations to the smugmug crew for a great service and site. hope this suggestion will help make it even better
best wishes
tiago
www.tiagocarneirodacunha.net

[My3Sons]

Is there already a way to show thumbs(a lot of tiny ones per page) when a gallery is forced to slideshow? I would like the thumbs to appear either at the bottom or at the side. It would be great if the current thumb that is being displayed is highlighted, so that the viewer knows where they are at in the slideshow- then we could get rid of the slideshow toolbar. Is all of this already possible.... if so, how do I do it. Here's one of the galleries I would love to see it in:

http://www.naturalphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/7650044_5ZsBP/2/494169025_GHhL7

Eventually, I would like most of my galleries to appear this way.

Thanks for your help. You guys are great!!!
-Melissa

[dpope]

It would be very helpful if a one-click feature could be added to SmugMug enabling a photographer's customers to identify images that they like. Then, that list would be sent or made available to the photographer.

This feature is different from "Proof Days" in that the customer would not be charged, no images would be printed, yet the photographer could still access the list.

Thanks,
David

[Andy]

Hi Everyone, thanks for the great suggestions - keep them coming, thanks!

[RogersDA]

Slideshow supporting transparent png files, please. :thumb

[omonra21]

Another idea - improvement of the stats feature (I know you guys are upgrading it - so maybe these things are already done or could be considered for next update).

a) Currently there is a lot of emphasis on the size of the picture that was viewed - thumb/small/large/etc. I personally think it's a misplaced granularity. I would care to see how many hits an image got - which is ALL sizes except thumb (which gets shown anytime a user is looking at the gallery). So I would care to see:
For both gallery AND each photo
Hits Total (life) - ie when a photo was viewed by itself (not thumb view)
Hits This Month
Hits Today
Maybe clicking on the link would bring up further details split by size.

b) I would also like to see the statistics for Thumb Up/Down displayed. Currently they are a bit of a black box - users are clicking on them but the data goes away into some black hole. I currently have 0 "favorite images" (maybe it's due to the stat system down). But my point is that we should have access to the data generated - how many people clicked a thumb up or thumb down for each photo.
I personally don't care about smugmug-wide statistics (ie other users) and don't care about my photos showing up in "most popular" categories and such. I just want to see which pictures my users liked - so would prefer straight data as opposed to a clever algorithm that takes into account how long ago thumb up was clicked, etc.
So my idea is to add to each photo the thumb up/down stats as they were received for day / month / life of the photo.

Thanks, Vic

[ejdalise]

Overall I like the way pictures are displayed, but would prefer a more sophisticated options for pictures larger than the available screen (usually for Original sizes).

1) currently clicking on a picture will size it for the width of the screen. Good, but I would also like the option to size for height (i.e. you see the full height of the picture, but have to scroll side to side).

2) currently clicking on "original" puts you at the top-left-most corner of the picture. I would suggest the section immediately below the menu (center top) so that new visitors know there is a menu available.

2a) with that, it would be nice to have a small "navigator" window available whenever the picture extends outside the boundary of the screen. Preferably, one could then navigate the picture by dragging the representation of the screen in the navigator window (a la Photoshop), but it's also useful if it only shows you where you are relative to the whole picture.

Thanks,

ejd

[TalkieT]

Slideshow supporting transparent png files, please. :thumb

Could you elaborate on this please?

I currently have a homepage slideshow and a transparent PNG overlay for rounded corners and and logo + some more info - and also not have a transparent GIF on top of THAT to provide a way to make the slideshow clickable again...

www.nzsnaps.com (http://www.nzsnaps.com)

Cheers - N

[TalkieT]

I have a couple... One is a broken record, but I know you know the frustration felt...

1) Support for currencies other than $USD. I have seen a huge growth in sales from my new Paypal code for Digital downloads on my site since I’m able to offer sales in local ($NZD) currency. I still want to be able to offer prints etc in NZD.

2) I want to see the option to take snapshots of the customisation so I can rollback to the customisation as at “a given date” or even a simple 1 llevel backup where I can “Rollback to a known good set of customisation”... Currently I have to cut and paste from all the customisation boxes and send myself an email with the contents of the fields – Ugh.

But mainly it’s the multiple currency support. I am staggered it’s not in the list of features already requested in post one given it’s been regularly asked for over the last 2-3 years.

Yes I know, you wish you had a better answer for me. So do I.

[mcgil]

Hi,

I find that I don't come very often to the DGRIN support forums but each time I come it's because I think I see something different on the site and I'm looking for some details on what exactly changed ?
For example this morning I'm noticing a new basic uploader but I can't find any info on it (is there a new functionality that I'm missing ?)

Is there a page that lists your release notes for every (major?) changes ... and that maybe would have comments disabled so as not to drown the official smugmug posts into brouhaha ?
:)

Thanks,

Gilles

[Andy]

Currently I have to cut and paste

This takes, about, 1 minute?

It's a good practice,please do it. We may get to a way to send you customizing files... but as of now I'm afraid it's not very high on the list.

I'm sorry.

[Andy]

Hi,

I find that I don't come very often to the DGRIN support forums but each time I come it's because I think I see something different on the site and I'm looking for some details on what exactly changed ?
For example this morning I'm noticing a new basic uploader but I can't find any info on it (is there a new functionality that I'm missing ?)

Is there a page that lists your release notes for every (major?) changes ... and that maybe would have comments disabled so as not to drown the official smugmug posts into brouhaha ?
:)

Thanks,

Gilles
Our release notes? http://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/

Be sure and subscribe to the feed, in your favorite feed reader, so you don't miss a beat.

[tbsharp]

I do several senior pictures a year for friends and I would love to have them order DIE CUT WALLETS - the ones with the rounded edges - from your site. Right now I have to refer them somewhere else if they want that kind of print. Just a suggestion.

www.tbsharp.smugmug.com (http://www.tbsharp.smugmug.com)

[TalkieT]

This takes, about, 1 minute?

It's a good practice,please do it. We may get to a way to send you customizing files... but as of now I'm afraid it's not very high on the list.

I'm sorry.

That's cool - there is a simle workaround so it's not a biggie, but a button like "Email me my current customisation" would be quite neat and probably not a lot of work at your end...

And I know I have harped on about multiple currency support, but it doesn't look good when it won't get added to a feature request list, or replied to in this thread...

If multiple currency support is low priority like the customisation saving, then please just say so.

Cheers - N

[Andy]

I do several senior pictures a year for friends and I would love to have them order DIE CUT WALLETS - the ones with the rounded edges - from your site. Right now I have to refer them somewhere else if they want that kind of print. Just a suggestion.

www.tbsharp.smugmug.com (http://www.tbsharp.smugmug.com)

We have them :D

http://www.smugmug.com/prints/catalog/BP
http://www.smugmug.com/prints/8-diecut-wallet-prints

[Andy]

If multiple currency support is low priority like the customisation saving, then please just say so.

Cheers - N
Hi Neil, I have nothing one way or another on this - it's been asked by you and others, we've acknowledged it. It's not on the short term list, I'm sorry (next few months). But we know it's important to you! We just have higher priority things unfortunately. I'm really sorry.

[LichtenHansen]

Feature Requests for Search engine optimization (SEO). The most important issue is the page title.

A unique html page title is considered by most experts – if not all – to be the most important SEO-issue.

This issue has been discussed in several threads, but apparently no one has come up with a solution that works with any of the search engines.

Thanks

[jefff100]

O.K. guys & gals .....

Is there a way you good people behind smugmug can place a spell check utility into your website so that when we type out comments, titles, etc. into our galleries that we could have a spell checker?

thanks much!

Jeff

[Andy]

Hi, thanks for the feature request!

[omonra21]

It may seem like a small issue but I think it would be great if it could be fixed.

As you all know, but i'll show just for the sake of example, the Style Selection dropdown is a standard web button that takes up an entire line of the page and looks out of place.

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/499511098_E6DHu-L-1.jpg

I'd like to request two things:

A) That the style selection button conform to the style of the page. Ie look like the "Share This" and Slideshow buttons.
B) Put the button next to the other two so that it does not take up a whole line on the page.

Thank you,

--Vic

[jfriend]

It may seem like a small issue but I think it would be great if it could be fixed.

As you all know, but i'll show just for the sake of example, the Style Selection dropdown is a standard web button that takes up an entire line of the page and looks out of place.



I'd like to request two things:

A) That the style selection button conform to the style of the page. Ie look like the "Share This" and Slideshow buttons.
B) Put the button next to the other two so that it does not take up a whole line on the page.

Thank you,

--Vic

Ask and ye shall receive. See this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=111251) for how you can add some customizeation to fix the style button in exactly the two ways you asked.

[omonra21]

Ask and ye shall receive. See this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=111251) for how you can add some customizeation to fix the style button in exactly the two ways you asked.

xxxx All working great, thank you very much.

(just had to fix <scripts> in that section that I had from before)

[omonra21]

After feedback from my friends I have the following suggestion:

Addition of a Thumbs+ viewing style. It is just like Thumbs except that it loads all the thumbs for the gallery at the same time and adds a scroll-bar so that users can scroll through the thumbs without having to move pages.
The problem with moving pages is that it is slow. It's slow because it reloads both new thumbs and opens the new picture. Moreover, since the user doesn't know what picture will open (since its the first picture of the next page as I understand) the wait seems longer.
I realize that the initial loading time may be longer (since all thumbs would have to load) but I would be willing to wait if it means not having to go through pages. Also you could bring up the picture first, so the user would be looking at the first picture and not notice that thumbs below are loading.

Just an idea,

Thanks,

--Vic

[jfriend]

After feedback from my friends I have the following suggestion:

Addition of a Thumbs+ viewing style. It is just like Thumbs except that it loads all the thumbs for the gallery at the same time and adds a scroll-bar so that users can scroll through the thumbs without having to move pages.
The problem with moving pages is that it is slow. It's slow because it reloads both new thumbs and opens the new picture. Moreover, since the user doesn't know what picture will open (since its the first picture of the next page as I understand) the wait seems longer.
I realize that the initial loading time may be longer (since all thumbs would have to load) but I would be willing to wait if it means not having to go through pages. Also you could bring up the picture first, so the user would be looking at the first picture and not notice that thumbs below are loading.

Just an idea,

Thanks,

--Vic How is what you are asking for different than the "All Thumbs" viewing style?

[omonra21]

How is what you are asking for different than the "All Thumbs" viewing style?

Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to ask for Smugmug+ page, not Thumbs+. It would be like the Smugmug page but the thumbs would all be on the same page and the user could scroll through them while the big picture would stay the same.

[markboris]

Is there any chance in the future that we might be able to have more than 4 featured galleries? I would much prefer 6. I use my featured galleries as my "Newest" galleries and for just is not quite enough for me when I might be shooting several events within a short period of time.....

Thanks

[omonra21]

Is there any chance in the future that we might be able to have more than 4 featured galleries? I would much prefer 6. I use my featured galleries as my "Newest" galleries and for just is not quite enough for me when I might be shooting several events within a short period of time.....

Thanks

See my page for that. I've set up a section called 'Latest', maybe it will work for you.

[omonra21]

Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to ask for Smugmug+ page, not Thumbs+. It would be like the Smugmug page but the thumbs would all be on the same page and the user could scroll through them while the big picture would stay the same.

I actually just realized that if this is too much trouble to do, simply NOT changing the main picture when the user moves across thumbnail pages (in smugmug view) would hugely improve the viewing experience.
Think about it - if the user wants to change the main picture, he would click on the "Next Picture" arrow. If he clicks on the Next Thumbnail Page arrow, he wants to see the next thumbnail page. Changing the main picture is not what he is asking for.

[colindiver]

When someone clicks on a Category, I would like the next screen that shows sub-Categories and Galleries to have a description and some pics loaded under the Category title (above the sub-Categories/Galleries)
Same requirement for sub-Categories.
Is this possible? If not can this be submitted for a future enhancement?
thanks