canghuixu
Mar-13-2009, 08:37 AM
I just stumbled across something that makes it MUCH easier to produce slideshows based on multiple keywords. Maybe everyone already knew this and this is redundant, but I was really surprised and pleased to discover that in the view from a keyword-based based URL, for example http://canghuixu.smugmug.com/keyword/china-favorite, the Tools menu now includes bulk editing of keywords and captions. This helps address one frustration I have had for some time, that keyword-based feed URLs that I use as the basis of slideshows can only accommodate a single keyword. I always wanted to do themed slideshows, for example, a slideshow of my favorite photos of restaurants, or subway stations, or whatever, but this would have required manual editing of the keywords in individual photos. With this new facility, I was able to bring up all my photos that had keywords 'china' and 'favorite', and then in a single operation add a new keyword to all of them, chinafavorite, that I could then use in a keyword-based feed URL. I quickly came up with a slideshow of my China favorites which I posted in a blog entry (http://canghuixu.blogspot.com/2009/03/slide-show-of-favorite-pictures-from.html). Now I will be able to put together slideshows based on multiple keywords very quickly, whenever I fancy. Thanks for adding this feature!!!