SmugMug Feature Requests #3

[Andy]

Previous thread here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=40139).

Older threads here:
Here are the prior three FR Threads, for reference:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29858
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=23482
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=1349

Some of the requests:

Add stamps and other cool new products
Add photobooks, cards, yeah
Add panorama prints
Beef up the stats page, make it more friendly and readable
Add packages for pros
Add coupons, discounts for pros
Opt out of SmugMug Search, /browse, etc. but still leave site/photos public
Improve the move gallery tool
Right click protection "OFF" for owner
Specify a default starting gallery style for a gallery
Improve the Smuggy uploader
Add SMUGYEARTAKEN to backprinting
Pro sales summary info - "pending payment" subtotals
Virtual Galleries and/or smart albums
Make photo & gallery comments easier to leave / submit
User-created licenses for Dig Downloads
Filenames in the shopping cart
Filename on the "replace photo page"

New Requests in this thread

A directory of SmugMug Pro Sites (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=426984&postcount=3)

[mkress65]

I'll add this link to DMC's "What do you Hope SmugMug is working on" thread. I'm sure it duplicates some of what Andy's already listed as well as what's in the other FR threads, but I like it as a nice synopsis of some of the more prevalent feature requests.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=41663

[raptorcaptor]

Just a thought! How about a smugmug directory listing for pro sites! I think that would help push sales, and make the sites more visible.

[perrotta]

- Ability to add comments to a Category, just like you can do to a Gallery. Ability to display an empty category. These two features together will allow you to create fully customized web pages with the simple URL of http://domain/category
- Ability to print to MPIX (the best service out there, IMHO)
- Ability to specify to what gallery an emailed photo goes to
- Solve problem where, in a password-protected web site, the link to a specific category or gallery does not take you to that categoy or gallery after the user enters the site password. Instead, the user is taken to the home page.
- Make WebDAV bi-directional

Thanks!

[CavalierPhoto]

To add to the "Beef up the stats page..." it would be nice to have the gallery links currently available on the stats page go directly into the gallery stats.

Thanks guys and keep up the great work! :thumb

[encosion]

"Virtual Galleries and/or smart albums"
I'm hoping that this request is to help owners create new galleries based on stuff that has already been uploaded? I have a few favorite subjects / photo-types which I'm repeatedly taking pictures of on my travels... It would be really handy to say create a virtual gallery called "Sunsets", and then assign multiple pictures from multiple galleries to this new virtual gallery... The only way to do this at the moment, requires re-uploading all the sunset pics into a new gallery... So yeah, this is a bit like shortcuts / aliases on PCs and MACs...

Better bulk gallery management
I guess it depends on how organised you are / want to be... But the more I use the site, the more i want to standardise the galleries, move them around, set passwords, descriptions, etc... The point is this: The bulk setting for "customising" the galleries is a nice feature, BUT I'd rather choose which features get applied to the galleries I select... For example, I want to password protect a whole bunch of galleries without losing all the description and keyword settings for each individual gallery... Or perhaps I'd like to turn the "clean" display setting ON for all the galleries, but don't want to lose any of the other specific settings per gallery like passwords, descriptions, etc...

Category descriptions
Like perrotta, I'd like to be able to add a description at the category level... I know this should be self explanetory, but I think it'd really help to diversify the way people use the site, giving them more flexibility...

Personally, I turn hide the gallery browsing, and add my own HTML code / links to the galleries in the BIO section on the home page... Yes, I'm a STANDARD user!


That's about all I can think of for now... I'm often wishing that things could be more flexible so I'll start posting requests here as I encounter them!

[encosion]

Here's another one:

Chopping up the support forums...
...help docs / wiki / etc into Standard, Power and Pro, it'll save everybody a lot of time and frustration when searching for support if they don't have to sift through stuff which isn't relevant to them!

[ghealy]

Two items that would really be appreciated:

1. Calendars.
Would really like to be able to order a 12 month calendar using photos from my site.

2. Stats.
Would really like to be able to sort or have sorted the galleries in the stats listing. I can have one gallery with 27 hits show up before one with 1800 hits. It would be nice to be able to sort by number of hits, amount of bandwidth. Most large images, most original.

Thanks for considering.

[Elysium]

I'd like to see a "display crop" much like the ability to zoom thumbnails. Instead of cropping down in photoshop and potentially limiting the viability of different print sizes, you could "crop" it on smugmug. This non-destructive "crop" would only exist in that it shows you a zoomed in portion photo, like a tight 2x3 crop, the non cropped file would still exist when added to the cart so someone could get an 8x10 off the original size file.

This functionality can sort of be replicated with proof-delay, you can upload 2x3 files and then replace them with 8x10s later, but proof-delay has plenty of flaws. Since I *want* the file to display at 2x3, if I proof delay and replace with an 8x10, I then have to re-replace it with the 2x3 so it displays properly (and re-zoom the thumbnail) and then RE-replace it with an 8x10 if a customer wants another one, a significant hassle. Alternatively I could just upload a non-cropped file in the first place, but that would prevent me from displaying the image the way I want people to view it.

[DKwan]

Would like a way to have Google/Yahoo search results show site content rather than "The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print."

[encosion]

Password protecting / hiding individual images in a gallery
You can currently password protect whole galleries, but not individual files... At the moment I have to move these images out of the gallery into a separate hidden one... So not ideal when you've got loads galleries already! Someone else mentioned the opposite of this problem, but it's basically the same thing - He / she wants to upload ALL thier photos to smugmug, but only display certain photos publicly...

[Andy]

Chopping up the support forums...

We do this now.

[Andy]

Would like a way to have Google/Yahoo search results show site content rather than "The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print."
Thanks, it's been asked, and it's not likely to change, sorry. I wish I had a better answer for you!

[encosion]

We do this now.

Really? Currently we have "SmugMug Support"... I would've imagined that it'd be broken up into "SmugMug STANDARD Support", "SmugMug POWER Support" and "SmugMug PRO Support"... This would go a long way to cutting out the noise associated with trawling through some of these threads...

[Andy]

Really?
Mind if I ask a favor? Don't use the colors or fonts please. I cannot read your posts without changing the colors (I use the "test style" which is grey.

[Andy]

Really? Currently we have "SmugMug Support"... I would've imagined that it'd be broken up into "SmugMug STANDARD Support", "SmugMug POWER Support" and "SmugMug PRO Support"... This would go a long way to cutting out the noise associated with trawling through some of these threads...

We have SmugMug Pro Sales Support for pros. SmugMug Support for general stuff that applies to all. We have SmugMug Customization which applies to Power and Pro. Dunno :dunno how we can delineate further :D

[encosion]

We have SmugMug Pro Sales Support for pros. SmugMug Support for general stuff that applies to all. We have SmugMug Customization which applies to Power and Pro. Dunno :dunno how we can delineate further :DHmmm... I guess... How about amending the strapline to each forum's description... Something along the lines of:

SmugMug Support
Problems? Suggestions?

SmugMug Pro Sales Support
Show Me The Money! (Pro Users Only)

SmugMug Customization
Be different or be damned. (Power and Pro Users Only)

Mind if I ask a favor? Don't use the colors or fonts please. I cannot read your posts without changing the colors (I use the "test style" which is grey.Sure... I'm using the default too by the way... Perhaps you should check the calibration on your monitor? I'm on a pretty decent Apple 20" Cinema Display though, so perhaps I can see a lot more contrast in shades than you...

[Andy]

Sure... I'm using the default too by the way... Perhaps you should check the calibration on your monitor? I'm on a pretty decent Apple 20" Cinema Display though, so perhaps I can see a lot more contrast in shades than you...
[/FONT]

:nono I didn't say "Default" I said "Test" here's what it looks like:

[Andy]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS]Hmmm... I guess... How about amending the strapline to each forum's description... Something along the lines of:

SmugMug Support
Problems? Suggestions?

SmugMug Pro Sales Support
Show Me The Money! (Pro Users Only)

SmugMug Customization
Be different or be damned. (Power and Pro Users Only)

Thanks I think we'll leave it the way it is for now, since only those that can customize are power users and pro users. And Pro Sales Support says pros in the title.

[encosion]

Filtering via portrait / landscape...
I think it'd be another usefull addition to the filtering tools... So you could browse via keyword... Plus turn on either "Portrait" or "Landscape" only to further whittle down... I think there are uses for this...

[perrotta]

Abilitly to create/maintain an address book of recipients of photos your order.

Thanks.

[I Simonius]

Photoworkshop.com has as a fcaility for its members a portfolio shown as a Flash presentation

eg
http://www.photoworkshop.com/public/bio_intro.html

I think it looks really professional and would love SM to provide something similar in the future for its pro subbers

[reach4urstar]

I would LOVE a way to BULK change the gallery categories and subcategories.

I recently changed all my categories per year. It took me all night, because I had to go in one by one and change each category for each gallery. Very time consuming.

If we had a bulk tool, it could be literally done in minutes. Am I missing something because I'm pretty sure there isn't one?

My friend at beaverhausen.smugmug.com also recently changed his category and subcategory settings. He has put on his homepage a note about it (he shouldn't have to do this):

Welcome to the home of my 40,000+ photographs I've taken over the past 4 years. I recently recategorized this site. I am now placing all galleries which I have done for an assignment in the "Professional" category. All others will go under "Personal Work". I still have to move the 220+ Louisvillemojo.com (http://www.louisvillemojo.com/) galleries underneath the appropriate subcategories. These represent a large group of what I've worked on for the past 2 1/2 years. Note: there are some Louisvillemojo.com galleries under some of the other categories as well.

[Andy]

I would LOVE a way to BULK change the gallery categories and subcategories.

I recently changed all my categories per year.

Just wanted to make sure you knew about our Date functionality :)

http://www.reach4urstar.smugmug.com/date/2004-11-01/2004-11-30

http://www.reach4urstar.smugmug.com/date

[Trasmc]

I would love to be able to password protect an entire Category - and then all galleries assigned to this category would be accessible when entering the password one time. I believe the only way to do it now is to password each individual gallery within the category. If there is a way to password a Sharegroup - I'm not aware of it.

[encosion]

Just wanted to make sure you knew about our Date functionality :)Andy, do you know if there is any way of changing the date on a bunch of photos? I know it's probably not a usual thing to do, but I have a bunch of photos which were taken on someone else's camera - but they hadn't set the date, so they're totally wrong... They're my photos, I was just borrowing their camera... For that reason alone the date function becomes a bit muddied and useless to me personally (at this stage in my life!)... I sort all my galleries by date anyway "YYYY.MM.DD : Gallery Title" so it's not a huge issue...

[ivar]

Andy, do you know if there is any way of changing the date on a bunch of photos? I know it's probably not a usual thing to do, but I have a bunch of photos which were taken on someone else's camera - but they hadn't set the date, so they're totally wrong... They're my photos, I was just borrowing their camera... For that reason alone the date function becomes a bit muddied and useless to me personally (at this stage in my life!)... I sort all my galleries by date anyway "YYYY.MM.DD : Gallery Title" so it's not a huge issue...The dates of the actual photos can not be changed, I'm sorry.

[encosion]

Just thought of another feature request... Relentless I know!

Bulk keywording from within a KEYWORD gallery
There have been a number of times where I've mispelt a keyword a couple times, or decided that I'd like to use a different word for the keword chosen originally - because my idea of photos living with that keyword has slowly morphed into something else as I've gone through and tagged them... It would really help in whipping the keywords into shape... Immensly...

[bwg]

Just thought of another feature request... Relentless I know!

Bulk keywording from within a keyword gallery
There have been a number of times where I've mispelt a keyword a couple times, or decided that I'd like to use a different word for the keword chosen originally - because my idea of photos living with that keyword has slowly morphed into something else as I've gone through and tagged them... It would really help in whipping the keywords into shape... Immensly...
Already there. Just go to "photo tools" from within the gallery, select "Edit captions/keywords (Bulk)" and there you go. You can replace, add, delete, yadda yadda.

[encosion]

Already there. Just go to "photo tools" from within the gallery, select "Edit captions/keywords (Bulk)" and there you go. You can replace, add, delete, yadda yadda.I said "within a KEYWORD gallery"... You currently have a drop down menu called "tools:" with two options "Edit this Caption/Keyword" and "Edit Captions/Keywords (Bulk)"... But the latter takes you to the "Bulk Captioning" page of the gallery of the currently selected photo... Not to a "Bulk Captioning" page based on the images in the KEYWORD gallery I'm on... Obviously the images in the KEYWORD gallery are from different galleries... So to change them all, you'd have to spend considerable time, based on how well you know your photos / how well you've tagged them etc...

[chrispf007]

I would like a way to delete Smugmug standard Categories that I will never use OR in the drop down menu have 2 sections and put the user created categories at the top.

[bwg]

I said "within a KEYWORD gallery"... You currently have a drop down menu called "tools:" with two options "Edit this Caption/Keyword" and "Edit Captions/Keywords (Bulk)"... But the latter takes you to the "Bulk Captioning" page of the gallery of the currently selected photo... Not to a "Bulk Captioning" page based on the images in the KEYWORD gallery I'm on... Obviously the images in the KEYWORD gallery are from different galleries... So to change them all, you'd have to spend considerable time, based on how well you know your photos / how well you've tagged them etc...
gotcha, i missed the part about the keyword gallery.

[Andy]

I would like a way to delete Smugmug standard Categories that I will never use OR in the drop down menu have 2 sections and put the user created categories at the top.
I don't think we can do the former, but I LOVE THE second part of your suggestion :thumb

[xxclixxx]

I don't think we can do the former, but I LOVE THE second part of your suggestion :thumb

I would also love this too... We categorize our photos based on the town/city the photos were taken from (all are taken in the same state) and it gets pretty annoying having to read all the defaults to see if the town/city is already in there.

[xxclixxx]

I'd like it if I could FTP the photos instead of using the http upload process. I'm trying Star Explorer now but even that seems to get choked up while an upload is in process. FTP I could upload zillions to multiple sites at the same time and be fine.

[chrispf007]

I would also welcome the ability to ftp, but I assume that it won't happen. I have to say the OSX Loader seem to work well as does Star Explorer, but as you say with limits.

I would also love this too... We categorize our photos based on the town/city the photos were taken from (all are taken in the same state) and it gets pretty annoying having to read all the defaults to see if the town/city is already in there.

[devbobo]

I'd like it if I could FTP the photos instead of using the http upload process. I'm trying Star Explorer now but even that seems to get choked up while an upload is in process. FTP I could upload zillions to multiple sites at the same time and be fine.

Perhaps you might like to try SmugBrowser (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47484), so far it's the only 3rd party app that allows uploading to multiple sites at the same time.

Additionally, it creates a tree view, so you can create galleries/albums in the correct State/City combination by selecting the correct location in the tree.

Cheers,

David

[xxclixxx]

I'll give it a try sometime. I only have one smugmug site.. The point I was making is that FTP programs are able to do alot at the same time, and it seems these programs get hung up just on one upload. IE if I click Star Explorer to see the status it is halted until the current photo it is uploading is done, then it shows the status and then starts the next photo.

[encosion]

I'll give it a try sometime. I only have one smugmug site.. The point I was making is that FTP programs are able to do alot at the same time, and it seems these programs get hung up just on one upload. IE if I click Star Explorer to see the status it is halted until the current photo it is uploading is done, then it shows the status and then starts the next photo.I can vouch for SmugBrowser... Made mince meat out of a mammoth for me when uploading my photos... And it DOES upload more than one photo at a time... You can't configure how many it decided to upload at a time... And I'm not sure how it works out how many either... But I was uploading about 8 pics at a time on my PC and 2 at a time on my Mac... It's pretty FTP like in it's interface really... You've got a queue and a tree structure etc... It's BETA software though, so don't expect bells and whistles yet...

Uploads on the Mac failed / hung quiet a bit, but no problems at all on the PC - even if a photo looked like it going to hang (the progress bar gets stuck on some photos occationally) it sorted itself out by the time the queue was done...

SmugBrowser is definitly in it's formative stages... But so far it's working a treat... Even the hanging problem I had on the Mac was preferable to using SmugMug's offering...

[sunione]

It would be great to be able to use some kind of WYSIWYG program (like FrontPage)to customize our SmugMug pages

[Andy]

It would be great to be able to use some kind of WYSIWYG program (like FrontPage)to customize our SmugMug pages
Hi, thanks for the suggestion.

In the meantime, if you are stuck, or need help, just make a post in the customizing forum, and our great team of Support Heroes and wondeful pro volunteers will get you going in NO TIME :clap :clap

[wellman]

Just wanted to add my support for the "Virtual Galleries" or "Collections" feature request. I've been wanting to go through my galleries and pick out my favorites (which will be a lot easier with the new prefetching goodness!). Rather than copying each favorite image to a new gallery, having a collection or VG to stick the reference in would be sweet.

I think of it like this... Right now you can access a group of images a few different ways with SmugMug: albums, keywords, dates. Giving the users an alternate way to organize their images is the next step down that path.

Thanks again for all the great work!:thumb
-Greg

[jfriend]

My viewers are constantly getting confused about downloading originals. I have now seen this problem four times where viewers don't successfully download the originals when they intend to and, instead, end up with web-sized versions of the images. The fact that I've actually caught it four times tells me it has probably happen countless other times.

The UI for downloading originals is just not clear enough. As a consequence, people are ending up with very poor resolution photos that look fine on screen, but will print poorly.

Just yesterday, I got an email from one of my viewers thanking me for the photos and telling me that she'd downloaded all the originals of her son playing soccer. I looked in the download stats and there was no way she had downloaded all the originals - many of them had a zero by them. I email her to emphasize that if she intended to download the high resolution versions of the images that are best for printing, then she must use the "save photo" link under the photo. She eventually emailed me back that she had gotten her son to help her and now she had actually gotten all the originals. I checked the download stats and this time it looked like she did get them. The Smugmug UI failed on it's own.

Furthermore, when I announce the pictures and send out a link, I even tell people that they HAVE to use the "save photo" link if they want the high resolution originals that are good for printing. But, you know the story, people don't read directions so they ignore my instructions and just go by what they see on screen.

In another example, I took a bunch of pictures for the school that they were going to use in the yearbook. I posted them on Smugmug, enabled originals and told them they could download the originals for any that they wanted to use. A few days later, I get an email from the parent coordinating the work that the images printed all blotchy and really didn't work at all. After playing 20 questions with them, I finally discern that they had the low-res web versions. I explain they need to use the "save photo" link to get the high-res versions for printing and they need to start over with those versions. I hear a big sigh of disappointment (a bunch of lost work by the students) and then she finally understands.

These are only a few of the cases that have happened to me. And, these are only a few of the ones I know about. There are probably countless others that I don't know about.

So, my plea for a new feature request is to make it a lot more obvious how to download originals than it is today. Viewers are getting confused and they are downloading low-res web versions instead of the real originals, taking them to a printer and getting lousy print results.

Can we please have some significant UI improvement here for downloading originals?

[greenpea]

How about a new gallery style, one that allows you to open up the gallery to voting, similar to the way voting is done on the dgrin photo challenges. I'm not talking about photorank, but something limited to a single gallery that isn't reflected in your most popular photos, but does show a count of the votes in that gallery.

An example of how this might be used: At a family reunion you take some large group family photos, you process the best of them, and upload them to a smugmug gallery. You want to send out a print of the best picture to everyone, but your not sure which picture everyone else will think is really the best. So you open up the gallery for the whole family to vote on what they all think is the best picture.

Voting is closed down at a specific date and time. And anyone can go back to the gallery and see the final count.

The voting could be controlled to a select group of people by making the gallery password protected.

Just my one item to add to the big wish list.:D

[Andy]

How about a new gallery style, one that allows you to open up the gallery to voting, similar to the way voting is done on the dgrin photo challenges. I'm not talking about photorank, but something limited to a single gallery that isn't reflected in your most popular photos, but does show a count of the votes in that gallery.

An example of how this might be used: At a family reunion you take some large group family photos, you process the best of them, and upload them to a smugmug gallery. You want to send out a print of the best picture to everyone, but your not sure which picture everyone else will think is really the best. So you open up the gallery for the whole family to vote on what they all think is the best picture.

Voting is closed down at a specific date and time. And anyone can go back to the gallery and see the final count.

The voting could be controlled to a select group of people by making the gallery password protected.

Just my one item to add to the big wish list.:DThanks greenpea!

[DJKennedy]

I realize that apparently someone put in the FR for photobooks, so I want to add my 2¢ worth on that subject...

Last year I searched all over for viable options for me to be able to create a photo book that would:


wouldn't be too expensive
gave ME all the freedom I needed (layout)
quality printingI came acrosse Momento (http://www.momento.com.au) from Australia. I haven't recieved the book yet so I can't say how the quality is yet. One problem is that they do not ship out of Australia!!! Luckly, I knew someone here locally who had relitives living there that I could ship it to (and luckly she is coming here for Xmas so I get it hand delivered!).

The free downloaded s/w from Momento is the only one that I happen to have come across that gave me all the layout freedom I wanted/needed.

The other programs I came across had set layouts which I did not want at all as I was trying to make a photobook of my son's first 4 years wich would have photos (of course) and text. Momento is the only company that lets you (uhm, that I found so far) place the photos where you want them, and lets you place text where you want text - not in preset layouts.

Not sure what SM is looking at as far as photobooks are concerned, but I personally found Momento from Australia the best option for my needs.

My 2¢ on that subject.

Does anyone know of a company in North America that will give me the freedom that I need for photobooks? I did find Momento a little expensive, but the freedom they gave me made it worth it for what I was doing. If someone does know of another company preferably in NA, let me know!

Derek
(http://www.momento.com.au)

[dmc]

...

Does anyone know of a company in North America that will give me the freedom that I need for photobooks? I did find Momento a little expensive, but the freedom they gave me made it worth it for what I was doing. If someone does know of another company preferably in NA, let me know!

Derek


I've used Shutterfly with great success. Their builder is a bit structured, but very solid. I tried Sony's Imagstation for photobook's where it is more freeform, but their builder was not as reliable and I wasn't sure what I was going to end up with so I didn't order what I had started.

[greenpea]

Does anyone know of a company in North America that will give me the freedom that I need for photobooks? I did find Momento a little expensive, but the freedom they gave me made it worth it for what I was doing. If someone does know of another company preferably in NA, let me know!


I've been hapy with the books I've made and purchased from Seattle based Photoworks (http://www.photoworks.com/).

[DJKennedy]

I've been hapy with the books I've made and purchased from Seattle based Photoworks (http://www.photoworks.com/).

I'll take a look at Shutterfly and Photoworks - thanks guys.

[nonilady]

it would be nice if sm could add the above feature, so that any gallery owners who wish to release some of their images as free download for certain period would be able to see the statistics..

[Toby]

Hi, after reading this (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=357744&postcount=440) post, I came up with a feature that I would appreciate. Why not a "super slim" free account that allow people to register and log in, but not to upload anything or have galleries of their own. The purpose would be to allow logged in friends and family to view private galleries and edit captions etc., without having to "force" them to pay for the complete thing if they are not interested in uploading their own pics anyway.

[VisionsbyBaker]

Has any thought gone into making it a requirment to register with an email address or something to be allowed to leave a comment?
I know we can make comments "approval required", but that doesn't help identify who the comment really came from.
Here's the reason for my request... I'm planning a promotion for 2007 that will generate a lot of traffic to my site and hopefully more booked sessions. I'm thinking of giving away a Disney vacation package with the winner announced on Christmas day '07. The winner will be decided by popular vote. If I count comments to individual images as votes, under the current configuration, there is no way for me to control misuse. That's where the "registered voter" system comes in. Sure, if someone has multiple valid email addresses the system could still be misused, but at least it would be minimized.
So that's the idea, any opinions, options, or suggegtions are more than welcome.

[Andy]

Has any thought gone into making it a requirment to register with an email address or something to be allowed to leave a comment?
I know we can make comments "approval required", but that doesn't help identify who the comment really came from.
Here's the reason for my request... I'm planning a promotion for 2007 that will generate a lot of traffic to my site and hopefully more booked sessions. I'm thinking of giving away a Disney vacation package with the winner announced on Christmas day '07. The winner will be decided by popular vote. If I count comments to individual images as votes, under the current configuration, there is no way for me to control misuse. That's where the "registered voter" system comes in. Sure, if someone has multiple valid email addresses the system could still be misused, but at least it would be minimized.
So that's the idea, any opinions, options, or suggegtions are more than welcome.

You can fairly easily do this on your own, with customization. You need a form hosting site, they are out there. Make a post in the Customization forum, and ask for the form that Mike Lane put together. When I get time later today I'll try to find the linked thread, too :D

[reach4urstar]

Just wanted to make sure you knew about our Date functionality :)

http://www.reach4urstar.smugmug.com/date

Yes, I am aware of this function, doesn't quite help me with my bulk category changing needs, though...

[03FatBoy]

Is there an easy way to avoid uploading duplicate photos into a gallery?

For instance, if I have 100 photos in a gallery and want to add some more, but I'm not sure what photos are there?

Can smugmug check and compare file names before upload and/or only upload those that have changed or are new?

Perhaps this should be a feature request if it is not currently available.

[norvig]

I think you should allow power users (and possibly regular users) to see how many prints have been ordered. It is useful information, and it could lead to conversions to pro accounts ... the photographer who takes pictures of his/her kid's soccer games, shares them with other parents, sees that a lot are selling, and decided to upgrade to pro ... Or maybe you think this kind of a user is not a real pro and would be a pain to maintain?

[Andy]

I think you should allow power users (and possibly regular users) to see how many prints have been ordered. It is useful information, and it could lead to conversions to pro accounts ... the photographer who takes pictures of his/her kid's soccer games, shares them with other parents, sees that a lot are selling, and decided to upgrade to pro ... Or maybe you think this kind of a user is not a real pro and would be a pain to maintain?Heh that's not it at all :D We love all our customers equally and do not differentiate in the way in which we provide support, to standard, power, and pro customers.

Right now, we only have reporting on Pro sales, with profit (priced photos). Others have asked what you're asking, and I wish we had a way to do it now, but we don't.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[Andy]

Is there an easy way to avoid uploading duplicate photos into a gallery?

For instance, if I have 100 photos in a gallery and want to add some more, but I'm not sure what photos are there?

Can smugmug check and compare file names before upload and/or only upload those that have changed or are new?

Perhaps this should be a feature request if it is not currently available.
Thanks for the feature request.

[reach4urstar]

Can smugmug check and compare file names before upload and/or only upload those that have changed or are new?

The program "Send to Smugmug" does this, I believe.

[devbobo]

Hi, after reading this (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=357744&postcount=440) post, I came up with a feature that I would appreciate. Why not a "super slim" free account that allow people to register and log in, but not to upload anything or have galleries of their own. The purpose would be to allow logged in friends and family to view private galleries and edit captions etc., without having to "force" them to pay for the complete thing if they are not interested in uploading their own pics anyway.

Toby,

All of this (except editing captions) can be achieve with share groups.

Cheers,

David

[jfriend]

There have been a number of previous feature requests to enhance the Replace Photo function, especially now that it's being used for proof delay for pros. It seems the best result here would be to let people use the normal uploaders they are used to rather than making people go to the one at a time replace photo function. Here's an idea for how to do that:

What if you allowed existing uploaders to put themselves in a mode (which would not be the normal default) where a file uploaded to a gallery will replace a previous photo in the same gallery with the same fliename (like copying files to a directory will do). In this way, a user who wanted to replace/update some photos in their gallery could just make changes to them on their hard disk, use the same uploader they normally use, flip a switch in that uploader to tell it to turn "replace same filename mode" to "on" and then go about their business uploading files. This would be generally useful for proof delay and for anytime you want to "upgrade" the photos in a gallery to newer versions. Today, you either have to use the antiquated UI of replace photo and do them one at a time or you have to upload replacements and delete the originals (the latter will not work for proof-delay).

You wouldn't want uploaders to normally be in this mode because you don't want people to shoot themselves in the foot when they aren't trying to. So, I think you'd probably add a parameter to the upload APIs that would let you enable this new "replace same filename" function.

I should add that I use Star*Explorer and would like to use it for Replace Photo with this extra feature. In that way, I could queue up multiple photos all to be replaced across multiple galleries, tell Star*Explorer I want to be in "Replace Photo" mode and then let it go.

[Andy]

There have been a number of previous feature requests to enhance the Replace Photo function,
Thanks John, I'll make sure that Ben and Onethumb see this.

[DavidTO]

I think the best way to handle replace photo is this:

Make a new mode (like arrange mode), where each thumbnail is an uploader, like the universal uploader. That way you could drag this file to that thumb, this other file to this other thumb, etc. You could see what you were doing, and upload multiple images for replacing at once.

That would make my heart soar like an eagle! :D

[esc2476]

Just a theme request: my sister just had a baby and I was making a gallery for the photos I took, but noticed there are two gallery themes for a baby girl, but none for a boy. So, I am requesting a baby boy theme. (I am using the football one for now).

[03FatBoy]

Threre should be a cancel button on the cropping page. Right now, the user has to click the back button on the browser if he/she changes their mind.

[westis]

Translation/localization
For us non-English speaking users it would be nice with an easy way to translate the user interface. That is, words like Prev/Next, Slideshow, galleries, keywords etc.

Virtual galleries
And I'm seconding the virtual galleries/collections FR. Actually, I've been thinking of changing to Zenfolio for this one feature, but I'd rather stay with SmugMug. :)

Option to not include keywords from filename
I often use the name of the photographer when uploading photos from a group collection. And it's a bit frustrating that those names end up as keywords, although I may be using the same keywords as manual keywords (that is, when the person is in the photo, rather than being the one who took it). I know it's been requested to be an option in to switch on or off and that would be a very useful feature indeed! :)

Otherwise looking forward to the great new version! :D

[superdiver]

I would like to see the following....

1)A way for customers to make collages (sp?) of a group of shots

and

2)The ability to make a book similar to the "Ibook" that can be made on an Mac

[richW]

Re: SmugMug Beta.
I'm not sure if SmugMug is going to redesign the share page. How about a flyout like the themes button, image info, etc.

http://lmsportspix.smugmug.com/photos/119501057-O.jpg

Over at youtube.com they use a single click method to highlight the url, that would be nice over here too. http://lmsportspix.smugmug.com/photos/119501303-O.jpg

The rest of the links on the flyout could open in a new window maybe?

I'm just thinking here....:scratch
Thanks

[jsedlak]

I agree with Rich... that would be really nice!

[Andy]

Re: SmugMug Beta.
I'm not sure if SmugMug is going to redesign the share page. How about a flyout like the themes button, image info, etc.

http://lmsportspix.smugmug.com/photos/119501057-O.jpg

Over at youtube.com they use a single click method to highlight the url, that would be nice over here too. http://lmsportspix.smugmug.com/photos/119501303-O.jpg

The rest of the links on the flyout could open in a new window maybe?

I'm just thinking here....:scratch
Thanks
:thumb thanks Rich!

[John Keane]

I would like to see an option for b&w prints added to the shopping cart. This would be instead of having to upload seperate b&w files.
Thanks

Previous thread here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=40139).

Older threads here:
Here are the prior three FR Threads, for reference:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29858
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=23482
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=1349

Some of the requests:

Add stamps and other cool new products
Add photobooks, cards, yeah
Add panorama prints
Beef up the stats page, make it more friendly and readable
Add packages for pros
Add coupons, discounts for pros
Opt out of SmugMug Search, /browse, etc. but still leave site/photos public
Improve the move gallery tool
Right click protection "OFF" for owner
Specify a default starting gallery style for a gallery
Improve the Smuggy uploader
Add SMUGYEARTAKEN to backprinting
Pro sales summary info - "pending payment" subtotals
Virtual Galleries and/or smart albums
Make photo & gallery comments easier to leave / submit
User-created licenses for Dig Downloads
Filenames in the shopping cart
Filename on the "replace photo page"

New Requests in this thread

A directory of SmugMug Pro Sites (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=426984&postcount=3)

[Pupator]

Just wanted to cast a vote against any more flyouts. I hate flyouts.

/* That's as constructive as I can be on this issue. */

[bwg]

Just wanted to cast a vote against any more flyouts. I hate flyouts.

/* That's as constructive as I can be on this issue. */where would you not put more flyouts?

[Dna]

Would it be possible to have a quick sort list on the categorie and sub-categorie arrange pages, similar to the galleries arrange page ?

I had my homepage all nicely arranged with the categories in alphabetical order, I uploaded more photos and those categories are now at the top. (lsv.smugmug.com)

Thanks

Andrew

[3rdPlanetPhotography]

I would LOVE an option in the Gallery Config area to click "View Price List" and have a screen show a nice table of the custom prices...


Item | Price
--------------------------------
4x6 Gloss $3.99
4x6 Matte $3.99
4x6 Lustre $4.99



This would be cool to have because I've had several people ask me for print price list and since I maintain it in Smugmug it would be nice to get Smugmug to dump that out for me so I don't have to re-type it :ivar

Scott

[3rdPlanetPhotography]

I'd also love to see the Album Create Date under the album title just like the "private gallery" appears. Just like the private gallery text it would only appear when I'm logged in.

It would be even cooler to show the days in parentheses (if I spelled that right).


Album Title
12/15/2006 (22)
private gallery


Anyone want to add or take away from that?

[richW]

I would like to be able to elect to use either gallery comments, image comments or both.
As is it now I’m able to use css to hide either on my SmugMug site, but not on the Beta site.
Thanks

[mdraughn]

I use smugmug to serve photos to my website, and I really appreciate the custom size rendering, where I can add -450x450 or whatever to get the size. You seem to be caching the images, because they come up very fast.

How about adding other rendering options to the request so the images will fit the style of a page better? This came to mind because I wanted to add drop shadows to separate the photos from the background, and rather than drop-shadowing every image with Photoshop, it would have been nice to request them that way from the smugmug server. With caching for repeat requests, it's hard to believe that simple effects would be much more of a load than render targets.

Other things that might be useful are black-and-white, cropping (which might also image tiling), rotation to an arbitrary angle, and decorative borders. I'm not asking for photoshop actions in the URL (although that would be way cool!), just a few presentation effects.

I eventually abused CSS and HTML to get my drop shadows, but some of those other features would be nice. They might make for some more fancy themes as well.

[papajay]

I would really like to be able to run a keyword search across my entire smugmug site (all galleries) and be able to purchase multiple photos (by individually selecting those I wish to purchase from the search results) without having to access each gallery separately.

Example: All 250 photos with my "Dad" [keyword] in them may be spread across a dozen of my galleries. Wouldn't it be slick if I could do a keyword search for "Dad" and individually select 10, 20, 30 (probably not 250) of the best ones directly from the search results page, order multiple prints, and have them sent to my dad's sister (who does not own a computer)?

Seems like this ought to be "a piece of cake" feature that would get a lot of use.

[papajay]

I would like to be able to Duplicate the entire printing order I'm sending to "Aunt Dale", and send another a separate order to "Uncle Bob". It would really be nice if, after duplicating Aunt Dale's order, I could ADD a few photos and DELETE a few photos for Uncle Bob's order.

Since I often want to send the same (or similar) groups of photos to several people, this would save ooodles of time re-searching, re-selecting, re-cropping/re-adjusting, photos I've already searched, selected cropped and adjusted for the first of several orders.

[Andy]

I would like to be able to Duplicate the entire printing order I'm sending to "Aunt Dale", and send another a separate order to "Uncle Bob". It would really be nice if, after duplicating Aunt Dale's order, I could ADD a few photos and DELETE a few photos for Uncle Bob's order.

Since I often want to send the same (or similar) groups of photos to several people, this would save ooodles of time re-searching, re-selecting, re-cropping/re-adjusting, photos I've already searched, selected cropped and adjusted for the first of several orders.
Thanks for the great suggestions, papajay :D

I've made sure that our engineers have seen this.

:thumb

[dmc]

I would really like to be able to run a keyword search across my entire smugmug site (all galleries) and be able to purchase multiple photos (by individually selecting those I wish to purchase from the search results) without having to access each gallery separately.

Example: All 250 photos with my "Dad" [keyword] in them may be spread across a dozen of my galleries. Wouldn't it be slick if I could do a keyword search for "Dad" and individually select 10, 20, 30 (probably not 250) of the best ones directly from the search results page, order multiple prints, and have them sent to my dad's sister (who does not own a computer)?

Seems like this ought to be "a piece of cake" feature that would get a lot of use.

It does work this way... have you tried it? I know this feature would be good for "bulk keyword update" but from what I can tell, the "buy multiple photos" displays all the pics from the keyword search, not just a single gallery.

[papajay]

It does work this way... have you tried it? I know this feature would be good for "bulk keyword update" but from what I can tell, the "buy multiple photos" displays all the pics from the keyword search, not just a single gallery.

Thanks, but unless I'm doing something wrong (I don't think so) there's no "buy this photo" or "buy multile photos" link on the keyword search results page when logged into my own smugmug site. If I select one of the photos from the search results, the specific gallery where that particular photo resides opens immediately, afterwhich the "Buy Single/Multiple Photos" appears.

After adding a selection of photo(s) from that first gallery to my shopping cart, I have to re-run the keyword search multiple times to access the other galleries where photos of interest lurk....and it's a slow, laborious process, especially when I'm being "selective" enough to pick the important "few" from the less-interesting "many" photos found by the keyword search across multiple galleries.

[dmc]

Thanks, but unless I'm doing something wrong (I don't think so) there's no "buy this photo" or "buy multile photos" link on the keyword search results page when logged into my own smugmug site..
I think I figured it out.... I just noticed that there is no buy "multiple photos" button on smugmug small style! switch to regular smugmug style (or any other style), it is there.... it does work the way you want, I just triple checked.

[papajay]

I think I figured it out.... I just noticed that there is no buy "multiple photos" button on smugmug small style! switch to regular smugmug style (or any other style), it is there.... it does work the way you want, I just triple checked.

Thanks dmc...
I "force" most of my galleries to JOURNAL style, where Buy Single/Multiple links do, in fact, appear. (I did what you did, just to be sure...triple checked...and noticed what you did regarding Smugmug Small).

But you're still missing a key point, I believe. My request has to do with keywording searching across my ENTIRE SITE (all galleries), NOT just within ONE gallery at a time. If you follow my original example (search for "Dad") you'll see what I mean.

There is NO "buy single" or "buy multiple" on a keyword search result page (that I can find).

papajay

[dmc]

Thanks dmc...
I "force" most of my galleries to JOURNAL style, where Buy Single/Multiple links do, in fact, appear. (I did what you did, just to be sure...triple checked...and noticed what you did regarding Smugmug Small).

But you're still missing a key point, I believe. My request has to do with keywording searching across my ENTIRE SITE (all galleries), NOT just within ONE gallery at a time. If you follow my original example (search for "Dad") you'll see what I mean.

There is NO "buy single" or "buy multiple" on a keyword search result page (that I can find).

papajay
I totally understand your point... I definately have buy "multiple photos" on my keyword results page... I don't know why you don't.... do you have customiztion code that may be hiding it?? Here is what I see: This example has 8 photos from several different galleries.... when I hit buy multiple, I see all 8 in the "chooser".

[dmc]

when I hit buy multiple, I have all 8 (from multiple galleries) to choose from....

[papajay]

I totally understand your point... I definately have buy "multiple photos" on my keyword results page... I don't know why you don't.... do you have customiztion code that may be hiding it.... Here is what I see: This example has 8 photos from several different galleries.... when I hit buy multiple, I see all 8 in my cart.

Yes, I used the customization code (provided by someone from smugmug or dgrin) to not display my keywords (long story, but you may recall I'm one who's faught hard for keyword functionality, but with a level of privacy...so I "code" my keywords to keep them unique).

So, have I done myself in using this approach? It would appear so. When I do a keyword search within my own site, I get the search results (photos matching the keyword criteria), but I don't get the handy little + this + that -these - them table, AND I do not get the Buy Single/Multiple link.

Arghh!!!....wishing life could be simpler! I DO one thing to achieve a specific objective, and I end up UNDOING something else (that I wanted to keep).

Looks like I'l have to "unhide" my "unique" keywords (not something I really WANT to do). Choices, Decisions, Compromises...yuk!

Thanks for de-mystifying it.

[papajay]

Yes, I used the customization code (provided by someone from smugmug or dgrin) to not display my keywords ....

Looks like I'l have to "unhide" my "unique" keywords (not something I really WANT to do). Choices, Decisions, Compromises...yuk!

Thanks for de-mystifying it.

dmc....one thing is certain---there is always more to learn. I just discovered there's more than one way to conduct a keyword search! What I've described up to this point involved entering my search criteria (keywords) in the SEARCH box at the top of the page, and hitting the little magnifying glass.

But, if I enter a URL address using the smugmug_nickname/keyword/Keyword1-keyword2-Keyword3 format (even with my site set to "hide" keywords by using the customization script), I get the full monty as you described....search results across multiple galleries, keyword +++---lists, AND the BUY SINGLE/MULTIPLE link.

I cautiously proclaim....problem solved (pilot error). Thanks.

[dmc]

I cautiously proclaim....problem solved (pilot error). Thanks.

:thumb

[papajay]

:thumb
Alright, now that THAT one is "solved"...when using a nickname/keyword/Keyword1...etc URL address, the search results show up to 5 "related" keywords, and upt to 5 "combine with" possibilities, and up to 5 "remove" possibilities.
How about adding a "...want to see more?" (as in "the NEXT 5") link just to the right of the 5th entry so one could "scroll" through, repeatedly if necessary, to see all the "related" keywords associated with the criteria specified in the original search?
Same suggestion for the "Combine With" list.

I ask this because the very first "experiment" (keyword search) I performed did NOT show a keyword "related" to my search that I KNEW existed. At first I did not know why my KNOWN keyword was not showing until I figured out that only a maximum of 5 "related" keywords are displayed.

[seanmpuckett]

I very much want to present extremely simple "Buy 4x6" "Buy 8x12" "Buy 12x18" buttons to my customers right on the journal view page. It seems to me the most flexible way for me to have this, and for everyone else to have their own variations on this theme, is if there was a documented URL pattern or Javascript function that would specify all attributes of an image to be added to the cart -- image id, crop rectangle, print format and true/auto colour.

I sell art, not family photos, and I want to make it dead simple for purchasers.

If you could just tell me how to write code to insert things into the cart, I could make all kinds of great magic happen.

Thanks.

[Andy]

If you could just tell me how to write code to insert things into the cart, I could make all kinds of great magic happen.

Thanks.:wave and thanks for taking the time for the great suggestion.

The cart is being worked on now by bigwebguy (who joined our Dev team about 5 months ago!), and you should really like the new stuff we're working on. Don't have a timeframe yet, but know this: it's gonna be better :D

[richW]

Save some screen Real Estate by making the style picker a button along side the slideshow, share, map buttons.
The Black & White control can also be placed on this flyout.


I know this has been brought up before: let the gallery owner control which style(s) the viewer can select from.
Thanks.....

[bwain]

Hi everyone and sorry for my poor english.

I want to make a new feature suggestion for Smugmug because sometimes I've this problem:

I've a lot of photos of my travel to Italy but I only want to hide (make private) some of them and I don't want to make two separate albums.

I'll like to do a public album with some private photos.

Thanks all!
Ricardo. :thumb

[Andy]

Save some screen Real Estate by making the style picker a button along side the slideshow, share, map buttons.
The Black & White control can also be placed on this flyout.


I know this has been brought up before: let the gallery owner control which style(s) the viewer can select from.
Thanks.....
Sweet idea Rich. I've made sure the team has seen this, thanks.

[Andy]

Hi everyone and sorry for my poor english.

I want to make a new feature suggestion for Smugmug because sometimes I've this problem:

I've a lot of photos of my travel to Italy but I only want to hide (make private) some of them and I don't want to make two separate albums.

I'll like to do a public album with some private photos.

Thanks all!
Ricardo. :thumb
Hi Ricardo, thanks for joining, and posting! :wave

[DanHonemann]

Since it's generally understood that it's best to sharpen images after sizing them (otherwise artifacts can show up), and since it's really only practical to upload the original-sized image and let smugmug handle sizing for prints, and since some of us prefer to handle color and other corrections on images ourselves (including using the same i2e filter that the smugmug auto color uses), I'd like to suggest a print option to sharpen the image (or not).

As it stands now, sharpening only happens when using the auto color option. It would be very convenient to have sharpening offered when selecting true color, and to have that sharpening applied after whatever interpolation is used to size the image to the desired print size.

An easy way to implement this would be to add a checkbox for sharpening after the color choice; then simply turn on (or off) the sharpening option in the i2e filter for auto color prints, or--in the case of true color plus sharpening--turn off all options in i2e *except* sharpening; true color and no sharpening would run the image straight through as it does now. This assumes, of course, that the i2e filter is applied *after* the image has been sized (and cropped if necessary); if not, it really should be done in this order anyway.

Thanks for listening,
Dan

[Andy]

Since it's generally understood that it's best to sharpen images after sizing them (otherwise artifacts can show up), and since it's really only practical to upload the original-sized image and let smugmug handle sizing for prints, and since some of us prefer to handle color and other corrections on images ourselves (including using the same i2e filter that the smugmug auto color uses), I'd like to suggest a print option to sharpen the image (or not).

As it stands now, sharpening only happens when using the auto color option. It would be very convenient to have sharpening offered when selecting true color, and to have that sharpening applied after whatever interpolation is used to size the image to the desired print size.

An easy way to implement this would be to add a checkbox for sharpening after the color choice; then simply turn on (or off) the sharpening option in the i2e filter for auto color prints, or--in the case of true color plus sharpening--turn off all options in i2e *except* sharpening; true color and no sharpening would run the image straight through as it does now. This assumes, of course, that the i2e filter is applied *after* the image has been sized (and cropped if necessary); if not, it really should be done in this order anyway.

Thanks for listening,
DanHi Dan, thanks for the suggestion :thumb

[DavidTO]

I'd like to see a back-up/restore function added to the co-branding.

I know you can copy/paste the contents, but that's a pain. I had an unexpected problem the other day where my JS got truncated for some odd reason I can't pin down.

Anyway, being able to restore to the last backup would be awesome.

[corbosman]

I'd like to see more elaborate theming possibilities. Right now you can either do 'customize' which allows a lot of changes, or 'theme', which only does css.

Why not let a theme contain everything that 'customize' contains, like JS, footers, headers, etc. The 'customize' section would then be a global customization, while the theme would allow local customizations.

For instance, ive got different headers for different galleries. Right now I have to add all headers to the customize section and then turn them on/off with css. Why not allow us to create a specific theme for a gallery where you can add a different header...and specific JS..and specific footers..and...

Cor

[Allen]

I'd like to see a back-up/restore function added to the co-branding.

I know you can copy/paste the contents, but that's a pain. I had an unexpected problem the other day where my JS got truncated for some odd reason I can't pin down.

Anyway, being able to restore to the last backup would be awesome. Yal, how many times have we heard "changed something and now my sites Wacko!".

Need an "Oops" button:D when returning to control panel.
Al

[GSmith]

I always wondered why a large image viewed horizontally is 800x533 pixels and a large image viewed vertically is only 400x600 pixels. Can't the vertical large size image be 533x800? I know I would prefer it.

Perhaps there is already a way to make that happen. If so I'd love to know.

Thank you!

[jfriend]

I always wondered why a large image viewed horizontally is 800x533 pixels and a large image viewed vertically is only 400x600 pixels. Can't the vertical large size image be 533x800? I know I would prefer it.

Perhaps there is already a way to make that happen. If so I'd love to know.

Thank you!

I second this request. This is a problem for me too.

[Andy]

I always wondered why a large image viewed horizontally is 800x533 pixels and a large image viewed vertically is only 400x600 pixels. Can't the vertical large size image be 533x800? I know I would prefer it.

Perhaps there is already a way to make that happen. If so I'd love to know.

Thank you!Hi Greg,

Weigh in, here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=32241

And that's where the answer to your question is, too :thumb

[GSmith]

Hi Greg,

Weigh in, here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=32241

And that's where the answer to your question is, too :thumb
Thanks for the quick reply Andy. I had a hunch this topic may have been debated somewhere else but couldn't come up with it in a quick search. I didn't even recognize this was part of a change in 4/06 but I went and looked at some of my older photos and they were in fact 800 px tall L images. I will do as you suggest and weigh in.

BTW... Since you guys at Smugmug were nice enough to include me here http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1801307/1 My stat counter has been indicating a real steady stream of visitors to my site coming from dgrin. I just wanted to say thanks for the recognition.

I'm excited about the new Beta features. You all keep making a good thing better and it's definitely appreciated!

[papajay]

BTW... Since you guys at Smugmug were nice enough to include me here http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1801307/1 My stat counter has been indicating a real steady stream of visitors to my site coming from dgrin. I just wanted to say thanks for the recognition.



While I fully appreciate and agree, as in GSmith's case, that a "steady stream of visitors" coming to one's site is what many Smugmug members want (afterall, Smugmug is a picture sharing site), I'm sure I am not alone among smugmuggers in my preference to have only those who I invite visit my site. As I say in my bio, the intended purpose of my site is simply for the "G-rated" personal enjoyment of our family and our friends... nothing more, nothing less.

So when I see that Smugmug's BROWSE feature has captured and "promoted" my site, and brought visitors to it whom I did not personally invite, I'm not so thrilled.

How can I "turn off" smugmug's crawler from posting my pics on the main smugmug site without having to password protect my galleries (which kills my ability to effectively use keywords)?

[Andy]

How can I "turn off" smugmug's crawler from posting my pics on the main smugmug site without having to password protect my galleries (which kills my ability to effectively use keywords)?
Only by making your galleries, or your site, private and/or password protected. Nothing's changed yet with this. But we know your desire, Papa, and thanks for posting it again :thumb

[papajay]

Only by making your galleries, or your site, private and/or password protected. Nothing's changed yet with this. But we know your desire, Papa, and thanks for posting it again :thumb

Thank you, Andy...you are like a candle in the darkness! I'll take the word "yet" in your reply as foreshadowing a day when my "desire" (relating to privacy along with keyword functionality, etc) for the past year has a chance of being fulfilled. Just knowing you knew it was something I wanted (without committing to actually/eventually addressing it with a solution) was never really quite "enough". I'll rest easier now.

[Fuzzytek]

Maybe I'm weird but I have something like 400+ galleries and when I open up the Pro Pricing Tool it takes a LONG time to load. I would imagine that anyone with a lot of galleries has a wait for the page to load since the drop-down list has to populate with all the galleries created.

I would never be able to manage the number of photos online without SmugMug's wonderful heirarchy of categories and galleries. Thanks to this I have them categorized and dated.

Proposed solution: Similar to gallery templates, could we have pricing profiles? Then I could setup profiles for models, events, nightclubs, landscapes, and so forth with just a handful of reference items. If I want to change pricing I can refer the image/gallery/bulk of galleries to the appropriate pricing profile. To create a pricing profile the current Pro Pricing Tool list would be duplicated on the control panel as a new selection for Pricing Profiles. The tool could still reference a gallery to pull pricing from, but populating that drop down list would happen only on selection of a "reference gallery selection __________".

Naturally I'm interested in hearing from people with a LOT of galleries, but everyone can chime in :D

[Fuzzytek]

"Virtual Galleries and/or smart albums"
I'm hoping that this request is to help owners create new galleries based on stuff that has already been uploaded? I have a few favorite subjects / photo-types which I'm repeatedly taking pictures of on my travels... It would be really handy to say create a virtual gallery called "Sunsets", and then assign multiple pictures from multiple galleries to this new virtual gallery... The only way to do this at the moment, requires re-uploading all the sunset pics into a new gallery... So yeah, this is a bit like shortcuts / aliases on PCs and MACs...

The use of keywords can accomplish delivering photos across galleries. The filename on your photos is used as a base for automatic keyword generation. So leaving a computer generated name on photos uploaded short-changes the opportunity to tag them as a group on upload. I usually put the event or feature as part of the filename. Numbers such as years get stripped off however, so NOV2006 doesn't work well.


SmugMug has a keyword cloud feature for the homepage that highlights the most popular keywords on your photos. The number of keywords offered in the cloud can be customized. I am a bit partial to the way FlickR (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzytek) works with tags (aka keywords) since they are listed as a column to the right of the photo when selected. Alphabetized columns make keywords/tags easier to locate than a row... although the row consumes less real estate on the screen. Perhaps using the popular cloud highlighting on keywords (that makes them bigger/bolder) would have them easier to notice. That might be a switchable option - simply a customization feature tossed into the global CSS for the site.


There are some great features at FlickR that I'd love to see mirrored on SmugMug. Such as Flash badges that offer a grid of photos that satisfy a criteria (be it gallery, tag, or popular). This grid moves deeper into the selected photos zooming in and out thumbnails.


I notice later in the discussion you mention Portrait / Landscape selection. It could be accomplished with keywords, however I would think pulling certain EXIF data as keywords would be helpful. This would also be a globally selected option for each user - perhaps offer a checklist of EXIF values that pull-through as keywords upon upload.


btw - my background is with database technologies so you might catch that in the responses I offer :wink Sorry to keep flipping between the term keyword and tag - they are synonyms between SmugMug and FlickR. Metadata such as these are how to keep your sanity when dealing with a large quantity of data.

[dogwood]

Bulk replace photo option!

Just had an order for 23 photos and it took a good three or four minutes per photo to replace them-- and each time I had to wait, then start the upload of the next one. Seems like this could be automated...

[jfriend]

Bulk replace photo option!

Just had an order for 23 photos and it took a good three or four minutes per photo to replace them-- and each time I had to wait, then start the upload of the next one. Seems like this could be automated...

I've suggested one possible solution to this problem here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=445133&highlight=replace+photo+filename#post445133) which would just let you reupload new versions of your files to the same gallery and any with the same filename would replace the earlier versions just like when you copy files a directory.

[Andy]

I've suggested one possible solution to this problem here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=445133&highlight=replace+photo+filename#post445133) which would just let you reupload new versions of your files to the same gallery and any with the same filename would replace the earlier versions just like when you copy files a directory.
It's not as simple as that, since the (old) SmugMug filenumbers are already associated with the order.
Thanks Pete and John for posting!

[imageinc]

I suspect this would make it much easier for people to see if the thing they want to suggest already has been suggested, and what progress is being made.

I didn't notice whether Jot's bugtracker is optimized for feeches or not.

[imageinc]

It's not as simple as that, since the (old) SmugMug filenumbers are already associated with the order.
Thanks Pete and John for posting!

This is an issue I propose to have myself, and having extensive background in programming and design, as well as some project management, let me politely reply: "we don't much care if the current internal implementation makes it more difficult; programmers are *supposed* to live hard lives so (dow scrubbing bubble voice)we don't have toooooooo...(/dow)." :-)

Seriously: It Would Be Nice If the API were, at least, extended to permit replacement to be specified on an upload of an image; it does not appear that's possible now. This should be something an uploader can do.

When the *current* replacement function is used, does Smug assign a new internal image number and update the order? Or merely replace the image at that image number, as we'd expect?

I, personally, want to know what the percentage is of *people actually wanting to upload duplicate images* versus people wanting to upload replacement images; the current default suggests it's strongly loaded towards the former, which seems counterintuitive to me. Though this may be another pro/selling vs amateur/sharing issue...

[dmc]

...
I, personally, want to know what the percentage is of *people actually wanting to upload duplicate images* versus people wanting to upload replacement images; ....
i thought about this ....
when uploading files to smugmug, why not check for filenames that match filenames already existing in the gallery, and if you have the "replace photo" option checked, then do replacements...
but the one issue I have is that the filename is not likely to match exactly... typically, I have the original file... DSC12345.jpg, then I may have 1 or more edited versions which I usually just add to the filename (so I can keep them together) like DSC12345_fixed.jpg, or maybe DSC12345_fixed B&W.jpg, and maybe DSC12345 fixed 8x10.jpg, etc.

The only option that would work for me would be some sort of filename "starts with" logic (maybe I set how many of the characters need to match to consider a match) to determine whether to replace or not... can be done though. You might need to add a screen we can go to where we "confirm" the replacements before they are committed.

[Allen]

i thought about this ....when uploading files to smugmug, why not check for filenames that match filenames already existing in the gallery, and if you have the "replace photo" option checked, then do replacements...
but the one issue I have is that the filename is not likely to match exactly... typically, I have the original file... DSC12345.jpg, then I may have 1 or more edited versions which I usually just add to the filename (so I can keep them together) like DSC12345_fixed.jpg, or maybe DSC12345_fixed B&W.jpg, and maybe DSC12345 fixed 8x10.jpg, etc.

The only option that would work for me would be some sort of filename "starts with" logic (maybe I set how many of the characters need to match to consider a match) to determine whether to replace or not... can be done though. You might need to add a screen we can go to where we "confirm" the replacements before they are committed.
Brain running amok again.:D How about a page like edit captions/keywords
bulk. All the gallery thumbs on left and a browse box on right of each thumb
to select replacement photo. Then all replacement photos would be done in
bulk for each gallery.
AL

[jfriend]

i thought about this .... when uploading files to smugmug, why not check for filenames that match filenames already existing in the gallery, and if you have the "replace photo" option checked, then do replacements...
but the one issue I have is that the filename is not likely to match exactly... typically, I have the original file... DSC12345.jpg, then I may have 1 or more edited versions which I usually just add to the filename (so I can keep them together) like DSC12345_fixed.jpg, or maybe DSC12345_fixed B&W.jpg, and maybe DSC12345 fixed 8x10.jpg, etc.

The only option that would work for me would be some sort of filename "starts with" logic (maybe I set how many of the characters need to match to consider a match) to determine whether to replace or not... can be done though. You might need to add a screen we can go to where we "confirm" the replacements before they are committed.

My point was that if you "wanted" to replace a file on Smugmug, you could much more easily make the filename match than you can use the existing Replace Photo option. How else is Smugmug going to know how to do bulk replace if you don't make some aspect of the photo match exactly what you want to replace? There are elements of the EXIF that might match exactly too (if EXIF is kept intact fully), but something needs to match exactly. The simplest thing to match is the filename and ever single Smugmug user knows how to make that match to make this work. Sure, my future derivative images sometimes have derivative names, but I'd be perfectly happy to give them the same name for the purposes of a bulk upload in order to make Replace Photo a lot easier. Let's not make this so comlicated that it gets hard to use.

[jfriend]

Brain running amok again.:D How about a page like edit captions/keywords
bulk. All the gallery thumbs on left and a browse box on right of each thumb
to select replacement photo. Then all replacement photos would be done in
bulk for each gallery.
AL

Browse boxes in browsers suck really bad. The file picker in the browsers is just dumb and slow to use. I've got a nice thumbnailed view already open and I just want to drag/drop the 10 images I just edited into something in one move. That's what I do for new images. I just drag/drop them from Bridge to StarExplorer and it's really fast and easy and hardly any steps. I'm just looking for the same experience for Replace Photo.

[Allen]

Browse boxes in browsers suck really bad. The file picker in the browsers is just dumb and slow to use. I've got a nice thumbnailed view already open and I just want to drag/drop the 10 images I just edited into something in one move. That's what I do for new images. I just drag/drop them from Bridge to StarExplorer and it's really fast and easy and hardly any steps. I'm just looking for the same experience for Replace Photo.
Maybe next to each browse box is a drop box. My point was replacing a
bunch and all processing in one batch. A drop box would allow you to drag
from your other window any file no mater what the file name is.
Getting closer?
Al

[jfriend]

Maybe next to each browse box is a drop box. My point was replacing a
bunch and all processing in one batch. A drop box would allow you to drag
from your other window any file no mater what the file name is.
Getting closer?
Al
I agree. Batch processing is a step in the right direction versus uploading one at a time. Drag/drop support is a step in the right direction versus picking them from scratch one at a time. These would both require building new UI and new uploaders to do this. Smugmug could certainly do this. I was trying to find a way that allow existing uploaders (since there are now lots of them) and existing UIs to work without much change at all.

In that vein, I was exploring a shortcut that would make all existing uploaders work (including my favorite one, StarExplorer) without full redesign. This would let me just re-upload image to a gallery in the exact same way that I originally upload them, but put the uploader in a "replace" mode so any images that are identical to something already in the gallery does a replace, rather than an add. The "identicality" could be determined either by filename or by EXIF info. When Smugmug determined that an upload was in "replace mode" and an image coming in was found to be the same root as one already in the gallery, it would trigger it's own logic for replace photo just like the Replace Photo page does today.

[Allen]

Maybe Devbobo can add the feature to SmugBrowser to drag a replacement
image onto the thumbnail and replace it.
AL

[imageinc]

My point was that if you "wanted" to replace a file on Smugmug, you could much more easily make the filename match than you can use the existing Replace Photo option. How else is Smugmug going to know how to do bulk replace if you don't make some aspect of the photo match exactly what you want to replace?

And, in my case, since Picasa exports the picture without changing it's filename from the original (which it keeps and never touches), I wouldn't have the problem at all -- though I understand the other poster's point, and that is how I did it myself before I switched to Picasa.

[imageinc]

Maybe Devbobo can add the feature to SmugBrowser to drag a replacement image onto the thumbnail and replace it.

If I understand all the pieces correctly, the answer is "no, the API doesn't expose the necessary function to make 3rd party uploaders work that way."

Confirm or deny, Smuggers?

[Fuzzytek]

I suspect this would make it much easier for people to see if the thing they want to suggest already has been suggested, and what progress is being made.

I didn't notice whether Jot's bugtracker is optimized for feeches or not.

I agree with this I can't conceive how this thread is organized. New posts as replies are often off topic of the original. Not sure how to make sense of this multi-threaded thread of a discussion. :rolleyes If this is how it will be then I'll deal with it.

I do need to get in on Jot / Wiki and see what is in there. One more resource for information ~sigh~, no such thing as one stop shopping for information.

[taylowa]

I would like to see a coupon/discount option added to smugmug. Also, I would like to see a feature that the customer could change to sepia or black&white at checkout, instead of the owner having to upload multiple pictures.

[Andy]

I would like to see a coupon/discount option added to smugmug. Also, I would like to see a feature that the customer could change to sepia or black&white at checkout, instead of the owner having to upload multiple pictures.:wave and welcome. Thanks for the feature requests!

[DanHonemann]

- Ability to print to MPIX (the best service out there, IMHO)

I'd like to second this suggestion. For professional level prints, Mpix is a league above EZ Prints. It would be great if users had a choice between the two (as zenfolio has just implemented).

Dan

[DavidTO]

When adding a comment to a gallery that has comment approval turned on:

it would be great if the commenter got some kind of feedback, letting them know that the comment was received and that it's pending approval.

[Andy]

When adding a comment to a gallery that has comment approval turned on:

it would be great if the commenter got some kind of feedback, letting them know that the comment was received and that it's pending approval.
Have you tried it on Beta? :ear

[DavidTO]

Uh, no, actually. I haven't. Should I? :ear

[3rdPlanetPhotography]

I would love some way to get XML dump from SM on my products/prices for a particular gallery.

Then I could take the XML and format it into something nice and purdy on my website for my customers to see my prices.

This way it will be all dynamic and I won't have to worry about keeping all this info in several place. :wink

Scott

[3rdPlanetPhotography]

When using certain <PHOTO TOOLS> in the drop down box, it would be nice to see some kind of notice on some of th items....

Example: <Make 2nd Copy>

When this item is selected it appears to do nothing. If I wait then the screen will refresh and everything will work properly. The time between the selection and the screen refresh is sometimes long. I would like to see some "Please Wait" indication or something.

Here is my example image:


http://3rdplanetphotography.smugmug.com/photos/124123964-L.jpg

[DanielD]

Hello, I usually don't upload my pics at full size (usually 800 or 900 px) and usually use some sharpening to compensate for softness of bicubic resizing, to get the best display at uploaded (orignal) image size.

Therefore I find it a bit annoying that there's no way to prevent the slide show feature from upscaling my images, introducing softness due from the fact that the images were upscaled, as well as from the scaling itself.

It would very much appreciate if there would be a checkbox in the slide show that disable upscaling the images, but would only downscale them if necessary. Would be even more happy, if that setting could be preset in the gallery settings. :D

Thanks,
Daniel

[Andy]

Hello, I usually don't upload my pics at full size (usually 800 or 900 px) and usually use some sharpening to compensate for softness of bicubic resizing, to get the best display at uploaded (orignal) image size.

Therefore I find it a bit annoying that there's no way to prevent the slide show feature from upscaling my images, introducing softness due from the fact that the images were upscaled, as well as from the scaling itself.

It would very much appreciate if there would be a checkbox in the slide show that disable upscaling the images, but would only downscale them if necessary. Would be even more happy, if that setting could be preset in the gallery settings. :D

Thanks,
DanielHi Daniel, if your pics are 800 or 900px, the best thing to do is to probably just use the gallery-style slideshow, that uses 800px images (size large). You don't list your site, but if you are power or pro user, you can disable the play slideshow button...

[DanielD]

Hi Daniel, if your pics are 800 or 900px, the best thing to do is to probably just use the gallery-style slideshow, that uses 800px images (size large). You don't list your site, but if you are power or pro user, you can disable the play slideshow button...

Thanks for that tip.
Unfortunately, as I'm a standard user, I cannot disable the slideshow button. I watched my family and friends who are not familiar with smugmug watching my images and what they come across first is the slideshow button.
Mostly they don't even notice that style option at all and are watching my images in sub-optimal rendering (which maybe annoys me more than them).

I'll try to show them the alternative in the hope that they can remeber it the next time.

Thanks,
Daniel

[Scott_Quier]

In this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52215) I posted the following. Upon reflection, this looks more like a feature request than an SmugMug interface issue. So, I'm posting it here as well.

Might I also suggest that there be some sort of shopping status indicator on the page at all times that indicates the number of photos in the shopping cart.

[mmouse]

:clap I love, love, love the new e-mail sharing feature, but I have two (hopefully minimal and easy-to-implement) requests:

- Could you also make it possible to send an email that links to a the start of a chosen gallery or sharegroup, rather than just to the clicked photo? This would be fantastic, as I often email friends links to private sharegroups, and would love to do it with a lovely photo in the email.

- Is it possible to modify the email that is sent to, for instance, add our own custom logo or link at the bottom, if we have customized our site?

Thanks so much! I'm really diggin' the new features! :D

[imageinc]

On reflection, I guess I should also cross-post a pointer to My Picasa Thread (http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=51985) which culminates in a Feech, since presumably Andy et al subscribe to this thread, and not necessarily others.

XML/sequencing/import; see the last post.

[kwalsh]

Right now when I what to change gallery settings in Bulk I see *all* my galleries in an order I just don't understand. Usually I'm trying to change the settings for all the galleries in a category or sub-category. I simply can't use the Bulk gallery settings as they are now because it is ridiculous to look through that many galleries just to change everything in a category to match.

Of course it is also possible there is some clever way to do this already and I'm just clueless about it :).

Ken

[devbobo]

Hi Ken,

You might want to try out my firefox extension (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47484), it allows you to apply bulk settings at the account/category or sub-category level iterating the selects gallery options into each gallery.

Holler if u have any questions.

Cheers,

David

[oddstuff]

Can Smugmug implement a pop-up keypad login screen (in addition to current password type in) for user to click a PIN to gain entry?

With so many tons of photos in Smugmug, we cannot take the risk of losing passwords to spywares like keyloggers. I'm sure everyone do not mind a little bit of inconvenience, for the safety of memories.

I have witnessed two cases of stolen IDs and passwords on my friends' online photo gallery.

If I can benefit anyone on detecting spyware, here is the link: http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php <-- reliable and trustworthy.

[founders2]

I've asked before but not on this forum. I sometimes include thumbnails when I'm sending a resume or otherwise soliciting business. None of my galleries are marked to share. Can't I now have the share button available when I log in? and not when others view my site? Really I'd like to have all options available when I log in. Having to go customize the gallery, perform the operation and then customize it back is quite unwieldy.

[richW]

I've asked before but not on this forum. I sometimes include thumbnails when I'm sending a resume or otherwise soliciting business. None of my galleries are marked to share. Can't I now have the share button available when I log in? and not when others view my site? Really I'd like to have all options available when I log in. Having to go customize the gallery, perform the operation and then customize it back is quite unwieldy. Will this work for you?
Enable sharing then add this to your css:
.share_button {display: none;}
.loggedIn .share_button {display: block;}

[3rdPlanetPhotography]

I would love to see a Sales Summary page listing out the dates that checks were mailed. It's hard to gather that info from the sales download. :scratch

Smugmug = :bow

[pmaland]

case 'left':
YD.setStyle(photoBarBg.childNodes[1], 'height', photoBarContent.offsetHeight - photoBarBg.childNodes[0].offsetHeight + 'px');
YD.setStyle(photoBarBg, 'height', YD.getStyle(photoBarBg.childNodes[1], 'height'));
YD.setXY(photoBarBg, [hoverRegion.left, hoverRegion.top]);
YD.setXY(photoBarContent, [hoverRegion.left - photoBarContent.offsetWidth, hoverRegion.top]);
var attr = {'left': {'by': -97}, 'width': {'to': 96}};
break;

This would totally rock. With this, you could even put some kind of small visual indicator that the slideout exists, possibly a thin bar next to the picture with a tiny < that shows where the photobar will appear from.

http://maland.smugmug.com/photos/125234137-M.jpg

Thanks!

- Phil

[Andy]

I would love to see a Sales Summary page listing out the dates that checks were mailed. It's hard to gather that info from the sales download. :scratch

Smugmug = :bowNoted. But remember, checks are mailed out by the 8th of each month.

[Andy]

case 'left':
YD.setStyle(photoBarBg.childNodes[1], 'height', photoBarContent.offsetHeight - photoBarBg.childNodes[0].offsetHeight + 'px');
YD.setStyle(photoBarBg, 'height', YD.getStyle(photoBarBg.childNodes[1], 'height'));
YD.setXY(photoBarBg, [hoverRegion.left, hoverRegion.top]);
YD.setXY(photoBarContent, [hoverRegion.left - photoBarContent.offsetWidth, hoverRegion.top]);
var attr = {'left': {'by': -97}, 'width': {'to': 96}};
break;

This would totally rock. With this, you could even put some kind of small visual indicator that the slideout exists, possibly a thin bar next to the picture with a tiny < that shows where the photobar will appear from.

http://maland.smugmug.com/photos/125234137-M.jpg

Thanks!

- Phil
Hi Phil - it very well could happen, give us some time to catch up on sleep, eat, breathe etc :)

As of now, the options are right (default) or bottom.
Thanks.

[jscoles]

I just started using smugmug this week, and am loving it. I admit I was disappointed when I learned that keywords do not work with private galleries. I read the long thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=6021&page=3) about this; I'm now trying to find a better way to set up my photos. You can, however, add me to the list of people that would love it if keywords worked for private galleries. :D

Keywords aside, I'd like an easy way to separate photos of family and friends from those I want the whole world to see. I have a lot of photos to upload, and it seems like it will be really clumsy to make all my family galleries password-protected individually.

What I think would be really useful is to have a password set at the category level. I would simply have all galleries I wanted protected as members of the 'family' category. This way, similar to the account-level password, friends and family would just click on that category, be prompted for a password, and have full access.

I can see this getting complicated with multiple categories and multiple passwords, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there.

[pmaland]

Hi Phil - it very well could happen, give us some time to catch up on sleep, eat, breathe etc :)

As of now, the options are right (default) or bottom.
Thanks.

I tried bottom, but if the photobar pops up off-screen, there's no way to know that it appeared, which is probably one reason it's not default. But, I did notice that "below" appears below the picture, not over the top of it, which is exactly what I want.

- Phil

[Andy]

I tried bottom, but if the photobar pops up off-screen, there's no way to know that it appeared, which is probably one reason it's not default. But, I did notice that "below" appears below the picture, not over the top of it, which is exactly what I want.

- Phil
Pls see post #1 of this thread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52107

example on my site :D

[pmaland]

Pls see post #1 of this thread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52107

example on my site :D

Well, maybe I wasn't exactly clear... I like the fact that "below" doesn't obscure the picture, but would rather have the photobar appear to the left of the image instead of below it, as I showed in my example screenshot.

Call me impatient... I just made the function myself:

http://maland.smugmug.com/gallery/549415

If it becomes an official feature, I'll switch back. Thanks for making smugmug so customizable!

- Phil

[Andy]

Well, maybe I wasn't exactly clear... I like the fact that "below" doesn't obscure the picture, but would rather have the photobar appear to the left of the image instead of below it, as I showed in my example screenshot.

Call me impatient... I just made the function myself:

http://maland.smugmug.com/gallery/549415

If it becomes an official feature, I'll switch back. Thanks for making smugmug so customizable!

- Phil
w00p
how about sharing that hack code in the customizing forum?
:D

[pmaland]

w00p
how about sharing that hack code in the customizing forum?
:D

Done. http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52378

- Phil

[dmc]

Done. http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52378

- Phil


Thanks! works great, I like it. :thumb

[davev]

I request that Smugmug rethink the chart for print sizing.

http://davev.smugmug.com/photos/125286448-L.png

I see so many things wrong here, it's crazy.
Why does a 20x30 need 320 more pixels than a 30x40 on the long side?:dunno
Why does a 8x12 need 48 more pixels than a 12x18 on the long side.:scratch
If I just look at the long side. If I have a photo that's 1280 pixels on the long side, I should be able to get a print up to 20" long.

So I have a file that is 1280 x 757 that I would like to print as an 8x10. I would select the "Uncrop" method for printing because I realize
that this is not a perfect 8x10. Seeing as the wife works at a custom frame shop, matting and framing this would be no problem.
But wait, the largest print size that comes up is a 5x7. I don't get it. I have enough pixels for a print "at least" twice this size.

Now I know that I could bring this photo back to my computer, open a page in photoshop that adheres to the chart, paste the photo
on that page, then resave (more JPG artifacts), then upload to a gallery on smugmug again. I feel that there is an easier way.

If I (or someone else) clicks "uncrop", the only size that should matter would be the long side.
Take my 1280 x 757 photo again. This shot can now be printed 12x18. But as it is right now, I can't get an 8x10.
I think you're losing business because of this. I know you've lost all 8x10's that I would have had printed here.

Last example:
This shot is 1024 x 257.
http://davev.smugmug.com/photos/71277686-O.jpg

By just going with the long side, I could print this as a 10x15, then cut of excess and hang it on the wall.
For me to get this printed here (without going through the pasting bit) I would have to upload a photo with a pixel count 3 times this size. (257 x 3 = 771) (1024 x 3 = 3072). It makes no sense.
As it stands right now, the best print size I can get for this shot is wallet size.:scratch

[Allen]

I just started using smugmug this week, and am loving it. I admit I was disappointed when I learned that keywords do not work with private galleries. I read the long thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=6021&page=3) about this; I'm now trying to find a better way to set up my photos. You can, however, add me to the list of people that would love it if keywords worked for private galleries. :D

Keywords aside, I'd like an easy way to separate photos of family and friends from those I want the whole world to see. I have a lot of photos to upload, and it seems like it will be really clumsy to make all my family galleries password-protected individually.

What I think would be really useful is to have a password set at the category level. I would simply have all galleries I wanted protected as members of the 'family' category. This way, similar to the account-level password, friends and family would just click on that category, be prompted for a password, and have full access.

I can see this getting complicated with multiple categories and multiple passwords, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there. I think with SmugBrowser you can set at category level and flow down thru galleries.

http://www.digitalgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47484
AL

[jscoles]

I think with SmugBrowser you can set at category level and flow down thru galleries.

Thanks! I did not realize that once you enter in a password for a gallery, you then have access to any other galleries that have the same password. Awesome!

[Andy]

It makes no sense.
Hi Dave - I know it seems dumb to you, but we're operating within some constraints of the design of the site. FWIW, we hope to have a nice pano print option in the cart at some point...

[imageinc]

Well, Andy, I believe the point davev is *trying* to make is that you're not, in fact, operating within *the constraints you yourselves promulgate*.


At least, that's how I read it.

[Pixoul]

Whups...found this thread after I made my feature request. Moving request here.

Can we get IPTC info on all downsized images, not just originals?

Is it possible to get IPTC info embedded in all downsized images, not just retained in our originals? I have various reasons for wanting this, the most important of which is the ability to retain copyright, usage, and licensing information within images.

I found an old thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=15358) bringing up the issue and I was wondering if any progress had been made. I understand the bandwidth/disk usage reason why this wouldn't be implemented site-wide but would it be possible to add it as a feature for us (prospective) Pro users?

[jfriend]

Whups...found this thread after I made my feature request. Moving request here.

Can we get IPTC info on all downsized images, not just originals?

Is it possible to get IPTC info embedded in all downsized images, not just retained in our originals? I have various reasons for wanting this, the most important of which is the ability to retain copyright, usage, and licensing information within images.

I found an old thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=15358) bringing up the issue and I was wondering if any progress had been made. I understand the bandwidth/disk usage reason why this wouldn't be implemented site-wide but would it be possible to add it as a feature for us (prospective) Pro users?

I personally feel like the basics of copyright info should be preserved on all image sizes except the thumbs. It's OK with me to trim most metadata in the interest of keeping the size down, but a pro user at least ought to be able to keep their copyright info on all reasonable size versions of their images. If you're really worried about performance of system-wide storage, then make it a "pro-only" feature and make it "off" by default, but the best answer would be for it to be on for everyone for all image sizes except the thumbs. This topic is probably realted to the "preserve ICC profile" thread on generated image sizes too since it's a similar trade-off in storage size and download size.

[davev]

Hi Dave - I know it seems dumb to you, but we're operating within some constraints of the design of the site. FWIW, we hope to have a nice pano print option in the cart at some point...

That would be great. Thanks.

[cinwhite]

Hello!

First of all, let me say I love Smugmug. But I do have a request. I know I can pay the extra money (I am on the basic plan) and get to create my pages any way I want, but I just have one thing that I would like to change about my current set up. I would really like to be able to put my galleries in two columns. Right now once you select the "animals" category, you get a list of 5 galleries. A lot of people, when they visit, don't even realize that there are more than what is visible on the very first page. They only see the first 3 galleries. They don't realize that if you scroll down you can see more. If I could put the galleries in two collumns, I thought this would be alleviated. On the first page, the categories are in two columns, so why can't we put the galleries in two columns? I am relatively new, so I hope I am explaining this correctly.

Thanks again,
Cindy

[dbd]

Dave posted:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy
Hi Dave - I know it seems dumb to you, but we're operating within some constraints of the design of the site. FWIW, we hope to have a nice pano print option in the cart at some point...


That would be great. Thanks.
__________________
dave

Dave

While waiting for a SMUGMUG panoramic print solution I've given my viewers an explanation of panoramas on SMUGMUG in http://dbdimages.smugmug.com/gallery/1920784 with additional references explaining cropped prints and possible sources to have prints made from panoramic digital downloads. The html-only-page capability allows us to provide info and explanations for our viewers. Great!

For now we can just hope they can get the new popup-photobar to work for panoramic format images. For info on this issue see this support thread: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52214

Dale B. Dalrymple
dbdimages.smugmug.com

[Andy]

Hello!

First of all, let me say I love Smugmug. But I do have a request. I know I can pay the extra money (I am on the basic plan) and get to create my pages any way I want, but I just have one thing that I would like to change about my current set up. I would really like to be able to put my galleries in two columns. Right now once you select the "animals" category, you get a list of 5 galleries. A lot of people, when they visit, don't even realize that there are more than what is visible on the very first page. They only see the first 3 galleries. They don't realize that if you scroll down you can see more. If I could put the galleries in two collumns, I thought this would be alleviated. On the first page, the categories are in two columns, so why can't we put the galleries in two columns? I am relatively new, so I hope I am explaining this correctly.

Thanks again,
CindyCindy, add one more gallery to the Animals category :thumb

[cinwhite]

Cindy, add one more gallery to the Animals category :thumb

Well, that was an easy fix. Thanks so much for the assistance!

[cabbey]

Ok, I know this is verging into an area that SM has traditionally not liked to give too much details, so I don't expect a response... I just want to plant an idea in their minds and let them run with it if they want.

One has to assume that just like all other collaborative ranking schemes that a single thumbs down counts for more negative than a single thumbs up does for positive. With photorank, is there any mechanism to catch someone astroturfing an entire gallery or user off the map for good, by going through and giving every image of theirs a thumb down vote, and then repeating from another address... or getting others to help?

[sudermatt]

I'm sure this has been requested...I searched...a little:wink

I really think this is a shortcoming in smugmug. There are a LOT of great features for those selling pictures....but this seems like a no brainer...

For account/categories/sub-categories/galleries:

Sort by ranking
Filter by ranking

How about custom selectable "Tags" you can allow people to select:

Print Request
Fix This!

Then, as the owner, you can filter/sort for these things on the website.

I can tell my dad to go look at the 300 pictures I took of his grandaughter's 3rd birthday in the Dad's Pix Galery. He can click the Print This Icon, or the, Send Me This One icon.

This way, he doesn't have to write down the numbers and send them to me in a stupid email....I'm tellin ya....grandpas (most) won't do it.

Smugmug NEEDS to let people communicate with the owners of the pictures, and allow the owners to filter for thier communications.....

Maybe there's a 3rd parter hack I haven't seen yet.

[Dna]

Adding to the above. Why isn't there a quicksort feature on the categories and sub-categories like there is on the galleries ?

Andrew

[Andy]

I'm sure this has been requested...I searched...a little:wink

I really think this is a shortcoming in smugmug. There are a LOT of great features for those selling pictures....but this seems like a no brainer...

For account/categories/sub-categories/galleries:

Sort by ranking
Filter by ranking

How about custom selectable "Tags" you can allow people to select:

Print Request
Fix This!

Then, as the owner, you can filter/sort for these things on the website.

I can tell my dad to go look at the 300 pictures I took of his grandaughter's 3rd birthday in the Dad's Pix Galery. He can click the Print This Icon, or the, Send Me This One icon.

This way, he doesn't have to write down the numbers and send them to me in a stupid email....I'm tellin ya....grandpas (most) won't do it.

Smugmug NEEDS to let people communicate with the owners of the pictures, and allow the owners to filter for thier communications.....

Maybe there's a 3rd parter hack I haven't seen yet.
Thanks for the feature request!

[dogwood]

I'd like to request support for side-scrolling galleries using journal mode. You can use CSS to create these and manually code in the placement of the images, but it's a tedious process. See my side-scrollers under "portfolio" on my website for an example. Also, side-scrollers can't have text at this point (at least not text that is supported by older IE versions).

Thanks for considering this option/feature.

[geary]

There are a couple features that I've always wanted.

1) Sort sub-categories and galleries together on a category page. I tend to put large photo sets into multiple galleries and then put them into a sub-category to relate them. I put smaller sets in a single gallery and only associate them with a category. So my "Family" Category has a "Summer Vacation 2006" sub-category and a "Forth of July 2006" gallery. As the "Family" Category fills up, it is hard for people to look through the photos sets in chronological order. I'm going to be forced to create sub-categories for even single gallery sets in order to keep the Category page navigable.

2) Gallery option to display date/time taken next to each photo. I tend not to add descriptions, but it would be nice in many cases to display at least the date the photo was taken.

Great product. Keep up the good work.

[LiquidAir]

I'd like an option to mark a photo in a private gallery as keword searchable. The way I'd like this to work is it would appear with out the "see in gallery" link and it would not be possible to buy the picture without the link to the private gallery.

Here's the problem I am trying to solve:

I often take pictures and host them in a private gallery so a customer can buy them. However, many of these shots I don't have a relase that lets me sell them to the general public. However, some of these shots I would like to include in my portfolio slideshow. To do this right now I need to manage two copies of the shot in different galleries which is both a hassle and sometimes confusing to my customers.

In the larger picture, I think most pros are going to find them trying to manage shots with a variety of release releated restrictions on them. Here is a sampling of the classes of shots I would like to manage:

Full release: available for digital download.
Approved final form: only available as prints
Public Display, Private Sale: portfolio shots in private galleries
Private Display, Private Sale: normal private galleries
Not for Sale: public gallery not for sale.

Smugmug lets us create shots in all these catetories execept for Public Display, Private Sale. However, I think that adding some tools to help pro photographers and their customers manage photos with a variety release rights would very appealing. Another simple example would be let customers restrict their search to photos that allow commercial digital download.

[Andy]

I'd like an option to mark a photo in a private gallery as keword searchable. The way I'd like this to work is it would appear with out the "see in gallery" link and it would not be possible to buy the picture without the link to the private gallery.

Here's the problem I am trying to solve:

I often take pictures and host them in a private gallery so a customer can buy them. However, many of these shots I don't have a relase that lets me sell them to the general public. However, some of these shots I would like to include in my portfolio slideshow. To do this right now I need to manage two copies of the shot in different galleries which is both a hassle and sometimes confusing to my customers.

In the larger picture, I think most pros are going to find them trying to manage shots with a variety of release releated restrictions on them. Here is a sampling of the classes of shots I would like to manage:

Full release: available for digital download.
Approved final form: only available as prints
Public Display, Private Sale: portfolio shots in private galleries
Private Display, Private Sale: normal private galleries
Not for Sale: public gallery not for sale.

Smugmug lets us create shots in all these catetories execept for Public Display, Private Sale. However, I think that adding some tools to help pro photographers and their customers manage photos with a variety release rights would very appealing. Another simple example would be let customers restrict their search to photos that allow commercial digital download.
Thanks for the FR. It's been asked, and we are aware of the desire. Thanks again!

[LiquidAir]

Thanks for the FR. It's been asked, and we are aware of the desire. Thanks again!

And while I am wishing for horses...

I'd like to be able to feature a keyword search or put a keword search in a category. I figure you are aware of that one too but I thought I would throw it out there anyhow. Oh, and while you are at it, I'd like to be able to feature the popular photos gallery.

I know there is some JavaScript floating around the forums which can feature a keword search but it doesn't work unless there is at least one real featured gallery (because if the featured galleries box doesn't exist the script fails.) With some coding I can probably generate the featured galleries box in JavaScript, but that is a chunk of work that I haven't had time for yet.

I'd love to get to the point where I am largely manging the portfolio portion of my site through kewords rather than galleries. I know I can get there given the current back end and a lot of JavaScript but I also suspect that you are probably working in that direction for a future release. If I knew it was coming in, say, the next three months I'd wait and spend the time taking pictures rather than coding...

[mbrady]

It seems like these days that more and more things have three-letter acronyms or names ("Wii" for example). The problem is, the smugmug search feature does not allow 3 letter searches. I can see not wanting to deal with searching for "and" or "the", etc. but there are legitimate tags that are 3 letters long.

[todosLados]

To make the Smugmug Map's feature look better, without much effort, it would be great to specify the zoom level when showing each photo.

Right now the zoom level is hard coded to be at the second closest level for all photos, but this hard-coded parameter could be easily updated to take a value.

For example, look at my maps page, e.g.
http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoUser&Data=neb
When you click on the one of the thumbnails, it zooms in almost all the way to the photo's point on the map. This is especially a problem if there is no detailed image data for that location, which is a common thing in rural locations. The map is blank and displays "no imagery at this zoom level". Not very useful, and lots of my photos have this problem because they are at international, rural locations.

The reason they are zoomed in so close is because the thumbnail's href link is like so:
javascript:MoveToAndOpen(smugImages[0]['point'], smugImages[0]['marker'], smugImages[0]['html'], 1);

The last parameter, with a value of 1, is the zoom parameter. If you look at all the thumbnails they all have this same last parameter value.

From what I can tell, adding this feature seems fairly straightforward for a web developer, requiring a new optional field on the "Edit Geography" page, and then using that value when generating the link above, which is on the dynamic page maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoUser.

I've tested that changing the zoom value does work, in other words that google's API call of SetCenter(lat, long, zoom) does in fact use the zoom value.
You can see my rudimentary test page at:
http://www.wanderaround.com/temp/testPage2.html

Zooming in and out using the links works by using a different zoom parameter value.
Smugmug's moveToAndOpen() calls the google API method setCenter(), so the result would be the same.

I figure the techie guys at SmugMug will see what I'm talking about. Let me know if you need any more info.

PS I tried several hacks to test my idea using customization, but since the page is served on maps.smugmug.com it's virtually impossible. The one possibility, adding javascript into the photo's comments, doesn't work as the page strips out any html in the comments. I tried!

Ben

[beline]

I really enjoy the Proof feature for selling photos, allowing one to modify the final image before sending it to the printer, but it has one MASSIVE shortcoming that I don't see as a real big issue to fix.

Replacing the photos one at a time can be time consuming when you hit high sales volume and need a quicker turn around. I propose allowing photos to be replaced en-masse.

I understand why this isn't done at the moment, because Smug-Mug allows photos of the same name to be uploaded without overwriting their brethren, but perhaps there could be a way to detect which photo should replace which photo by the date and time the photo was taken? And perhaps a flag in the API to turn this on and off, so that plug-ins could utilize it.

I don't know how, all I know is I am starting to sell photos like mad, and uploading each one at a time is getting to me... lol :bash

[xtina]

I would like to request the ability to use the email share invitation at the subcategory level. This way the user will click on the link and be shown all the galleries in a subcategory if you have multiple galleries to share.
Thanks,
Tina

[papajay]

How about adding a real-time upload speed display to the current real-time "Upload In Progress" window for the Universal Uploader. The real-time "progress bars" are fun to watch (I'm easily amused), but an upload speed readout would make the progress window even better.

[Andy]

I really enjoy the Proof feature for selling photos, allowing one to modify the final image before sending it to the printer, but it has one MASSIVE shortcoming that I don't see as a real big issue to fix.

Replacing the photos one at a time can be time consuming when you hit high sales volume and need a quicker turn around. I propose allowing photos to be replaced en-masse.

I understand why this isn't done at the moment, because Smug-Mug allows photos of the same name to be uploaded without overwriting their brethren, but perhaps there could be a way to detect which photo should replace which photo by the date and time the photo was taken? And perhaps a flag in the API to turn this on and off, so that plug-ins could utilize it.

I don't know how, all I know is I am starting to sell photos like mad, and uploading each one at a time is getting to me... lol :bash
If there is a way, our SmugSorcerers will come up with it. I've made sure that they've seen this (and others) request.

[imageinc]

While they're banging on that uploader, Andy, did you see my suggestion elsewhere to make the uploader display a ping time to the user, and upload a ping time and traceroute to your server just before an upload batch?

[founders2]

Thanks, that seems to do it. But is there now a way people can get to the images? I don't have everything watermarked.
And what is the Slideshow button called? I'd like to get rid of that too.

Maureen


Will this work for you?
Enable sharing then add this to your css:
.share_button {display: none;}
.loggedIn .share_button {display: block;}

[Andy]

Thanks, that seems to do it. But is there now a way people can get to the images? I don't have everything watermarked.
And what is the Slideshow button called? I'd like to get rid of that too.

Maureen
Hi, nothing has changed regarding image protection, all works as it has.

[founders2]

Hi, nothing has changed regarding image protection, all works as it has.

In RichW's reply to my original question, he suggests that I turn on sharing but hide the button. That seems like it could be a protection risk.

[Ryan Armbrust]

I would love to be able to start a community and use my co-branding to give it the look of my website, BUT, be able to let others that have customized their websites to keep their customization intact as they add galleries to my community.

[Andy]

I would love to be able to start a community and use my co-branding to give it the look of my website, BUT, be able to let others that have customized their websites to keep their customization intact as they add galleries to my community.
Yes, it's been asked. Unfortunately, we don't have the abilty for that. Thanks for the request though!

[cabbey]

I'd really like to be able to relocate viewers comments from "gallery" scoped to a single photo for when it's obvious they are talking about a specific image, and vice versa when they're obviously talking about the entire gallery. Kind of a less drastic moderation than just deleting the comment.

[beline]

I'd really like to be able to relocate viewers comments from "gallery" scoped to a single photo for when it's obvious they are talking about a specific image, and vice versa when they're obviously talking about the entire gallery. Kind of a less drastic moderation than just deleting the comment.

I second this, as people refer to specific images, and qualities of that image, it gets confusing when reading the comments as a gallery whole...

[Andy]

I'd really like to be able to relocate viewers comments from "gallery" scoped to a single photo for when it's obvious they are talking about a specific image, and vice versa when they're obviously talking about the entire gallery. Kind of a less drastic moderation than just deleting the comment.
Did you notice the new comments interface? Now, commenters must choose, commenting on a photo or on the gallery. :ear

[todosLados]

I would like to request the ability to use the email share invitation at the subcategory level. This way the user will click on the link and be shown all the galleries in a subcategory if you have multiple galleries to share.
Thanks,
Tina

As a workaround you can create a "ShareGroup", where you can create a link that links to multple galleries that you chose. So you could create a ShareGroup and chose all the galleries in the subcategory.

ShareGroups can be made in the Control Panel.

Hope this helps!
Ben

[todosLados]

Did you notice the new comments interface? Now, commenters must choose, commenting on a photo or on the gallery. :ear
Speaking of the comments interface, it would streamline the comment process if it recognized that the commenter is a logged in SmugMugger, and therefore doesn't make them enter in the anti-spam characters. If we're logged in we're not spammers!

[cabbey]

Did you notice the new comments interface? Now, commenters must choose, commenting on a photo or on the gallery. :ear

Yep, saw, it, had high hopes for it. It didn't help (http://cabbey.smugmug.com/gallery/2391597#125321903).

Speaking of the comments interface, it would streamline the comment process if it recognized if the commenter is a logged in SmugMugger, and therefore doesn't make them enter in the anti-spam characters. If we're logged in we're not spammers!

Except that they have a free preview. Spam bots are smart enough to signup and then spam like crazy until caught... only to then rinse and repeat, probably with bogus credit card info.

[todosLados]

Except that they have a free preview. Spam bots are smart enough to signup and then spam like crazy until caught... only to then rinse and repeat, probably with bogus credit card info.

Then put the anti-bot code in the signup process, not the commenting process.

[mathys]

I didn't see it mentioned in the thread so I hope I am not repeating someone else's request.

But I would like to have an option to "copy to a gallery". Instead of having "make 2nd copy" and then to select it and moving it to another gallery. Just one step instead of 2.

Thank you,

Mathys

[Andy]

I didn't see it mentioned in the thread so I hope I am not repeating someone else's request.

But I would like to have an option to "copy to a gallery". Instead of having "make 2nd copy" and then to select it and moving it to another gallery. Just one step instead of 2.

Thank you,

MathysThank you! And welcome :D

[psr]

I just noticed that one of your new competitors (BackPrint) offers photo packages. They do it by putting together several standard print sizes, such as two 4x6, or 1 8x10, 2 5x7, 2 4x6, and 8 wallets for a set wholesale price which can then be marked up. From my perspective as a photographer, now I can easily sell packages of one photograph without my customer having to separately order each individual size. Sure would be nice to have this for team portraits.

[xtina]

Thanks for the tip Ben. But then I want to be be able to use the email invitation with the ShareGroup so I can track who reads and clicks the email. I guess I can just choose the first gallery to share with email and then include the link for the subcategory or sharegroup.

As a workaround you can create a "ShareGroup", where you can create a link that links to multple galleries that you chose. So you could create a ShareGroup and chose all the galleries in the subcategory.

ShareGroups can be made in the Control Panel.

Hope this helps!
Ben

[jfriend]

When I share with folks, I often want to include several links. I can't seen to get links into the share email that actually show up as links. I tried just pasting the plain URL. That just came through as text, not a clickable link. I tried putting <A href=> tags. That didn't work either (I think it got stripped out).

I really want the ability to put other clickable links in the sharing email.

[savannahga]

I'm looking for quanity discounts, shopping cart customization, &
frames & mats. :thumb

[Pindy]

Sorry if this has been mentioned:

I'd like a way to have certain shots of a gallery be public and others be password protected; in other words, there's no reason why anybody doing a search shouldn't be able to view my shots of landmarks and geographical features in a vacation or travel gallery, for example, but I also have my kids in some of these shots and, well, I'd like to restrict access to them without closing the whole gallery down. If there is an elegant way to do this, I'd be much obliged!

[Allen]

I have a bunch of sub-categories under a category and would like some
of them to be under a new category.

After creating the new category you have to re-create all of these
sub-cats names under the new category and then re-do every gallery.

I'd like to see on the sub-category add/remove/rename customize page the
ability to re-assign a sub-cat to a different category.

[episodic]

I want to be able to search the tags in my private galleries when I'm logged in as me. Even in the passworded galleries.

I also would like being able to make each picture private independent of the gallery.

[SimonG156]

To be able to order prints from a UK printer and my friends and family to be able to do the same. I would happily swap EVERY other enhancement from the last two years for this.

[strangely]

To be able to order prints from a UK printer and my friends and family to be able to do the same.

:thumb +1 -- anybody viewing my print-enabled galleries should be able to do that.

I would happily swap EVERY other enhancement from the last two years for this.

Erm, I wouldn't go that far :huh

[strangely]

Keywords aside, I'd like an easy way to separate photos of family and friends from those I want the whole world to see. I have a lot of photos to upload, and it seems like it will be really clumsy to make all my family galleries password-protected individually.

What I think would be really useful is to have a password set at the category level. I would simply have all galleries I wanted protected as members of the 'family' category. This way, similar to the account-level password, friends and family would just click on that category, be prompted for a password, and have full access.

I can see this getting complicated with multiple categories and multiple passwords, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there.

I have similar needs (a few public galleries, and a lot of private ones), but I've done it a different way. The private galleries are marked as "private", but without a password. They can be categorised however I like. Then I have two ShareGroups (Friends and Family) and I include the relevant galleries in each. Then I can give the relevant ShareGroup URI out, and the recipient can browse through all of the allowed galleries.

I'm with you about the desire to be able to search in my own private galleries, and I'd like for authorised users (who came in to a private gallery directly or via a ShareGroup) to be able to do it as well.

Cheery,
Jason.

[mkress65]

If the exif information is going to continue in its current bifurcated state in the pop up box, can the "photo information" text please be made so that it invites clicking

Also, I would suggest changing the structure of the pop up box so that "basic" had only a few items (perhaps as it is now) and detailed contained all of the items. Andy has indicated that the majority of users want it the way that it is, but I am still wondering why people want to have to toggle between the two tabs or pop up a new screen to see all their exif information at one time

Finally, I'd like to concur on the virtual galleries

[Andy]

If the exif information is going to continue in its current bifurcated state in the pop up box, can the "photo information" text please be made so that it invites clicking

Thanks- we already saw and noted your suggestion, here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=480099#post480099
:thumb

Also, I would suggest changing the structure of the pop up box so that "basic" had only a few items (perhaps as it is now) and detailed contained all of the items. Andy has indicated that the majority of users want it the way that it is, but I am still wondering why people want to have to toggle between the two tabs or pop up a new screen to see all their exif information at one time
Thanks again

Finally, I'd like to concur on the virtual galleries
Cool, we'll add your voice to the list.

[I Simonius]

I have a bunch of sub-categories under a category and would like some
of them to be under a new category.

After creating the new category you have to re-create all of these
sub-cats names under the new category and then re-do every gallery.

I'd like to see on the sub-category add/remove/rename customize page the
ability to re-assign a sub-cat to a different category.


seconded!:clap

[I Simonius]

I realise this has probably either already been mentioned or implemented but please excuse my ignorance of both counts....

The ONE single thing I would like the Pro account to have over and above anything else is to be able to make my account look like those pro's who have the time and knowledge to personalise their sites to look professional, (you know, it appears that it is THEIR personal site not part of SM - not that I have anything against SM ) BUT instead of going into all that customisation stuff which totally does my head in (can't do maths either) I would like to be able to do it just by choosing a 'style' but a PRO style rather tan all the other lovely but clearly SM styles

Before I get all the bombs telling me what a daft idea that is because they're all so individual etc , my thinking ( being ignorant of what is required to make it happen) is that surely if these guys can customise their sites then all that requires is code , so couldn't such code be written as a set of PRO 'styles' ?

If SM is happy to ALLOW such customisation why not actually ENCOURAGE it?

THUS: when you choose a SM PRO style it would ask you for your 'banner' jpg (at such and such a size) which you'd upload to the 'banner box' and so on

Surely it's possible?

(done already and I looked straight through it??)

[Andy]

If SM is happy to ALLOW such customisation why not actually ENCOURAGE it?

THUS: when you choose a SM PRO style it would ask you for your 'banner' jpg (at such and such a size) which you'd upload to the 'banner box' and so on

Surely it's possible?

(done already and I looked straight through it??)
Anything's possible... we might get there eventually... but in the meantime, any power or pro customer that wants help, gets it, and then some, in the customization forum. We handle all requests, fast & friendly. We've been improving the process, too.

Can we help you?

[I Simonius]

Anything's possible... we might get there eventually... but in the meantime, any power or pro customer that wants help, gets it, and then some, in the customization forum. We handle all requests, fast & friendly. We've been improving the process, too.

Can we help you?

I know- it wasn't a critcism.. just I hate all that stuff cos Im so dreadful at it, - I guess I'll have to take the plunge sooner or later though...

Ona different note- every now and then I decide to change one setting throughout my galleries (e.g. the max image display) but still have to go through every gallery to do what is essentailly a global setting - but SM default is the only global setting available AFAICS

Is there a way to do such things on one click? If not can it be a feature request?

[Andy]

I know- it wasn't a critcism.. just I hate all that stuff cos Im so dreadful at it, - I guess I'll have to take the plunge sooner or later though...

Ona different note- every now and then I decide to change one setting throughout my galleries (e.g. the max image display) but still have to go through every gallery to do what is essentailly a global setting - but SM default is the only global setting available AFAICS

Is there a way to do such things on one click? If not can it be a feature request?:nod Use Quick Settings:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/picture-storage

[devbobo]

I know- it wasn't a critcism.. just I hate all that stuff cos Im so dreadful at it, - I guess I'll have to take the plunge sooner or later though...

Ona different note- every now and then I decide to change one setting throughout my galleries (e.g. the max image display) but still have to go through every gallery to do what is essentailly a global setting - but SM default is the only global setting available AFAICS

Is there a way to do such things on one click? If not can it be a feature request?

Simon,

This is possible using my firefox extension...SmugBrowser (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47484)

Album settings can be updated from the Account, Category or Sub-category level (right-click, then select 'Bulk Update')

Cheers,

David

[I Simonius]

AHA! - thanks chaps!±

[winger]

I just noticed that one of your new competitors (BackPrint) offers photo packages. They do it by putting together several standard print sizes, such as two 4x6, or 1 8x10, 2 5x7, 2 4x6, and 8 wallets for a set wholesale price which can then be marked up. From my perspective as a photographer, now I can easily sell packages of one photograph without my customer having to separately order each individual size. Sure would be nice to have this for team portraits.

I 2nd that! I also dont know it has been metioned but multipage calenders, photo books, and the little sprial photos books they have on shutterfly would be awesome! I love smugmug, but it would be so easy if i could get everything in one place. Panoramic photos (which ezprints does have) would be awesome too!!! And maybe dreaming into the future for the growth of my own business canvas prints. Althought maybe I can do that on my own cheaper. I really like how smugmug is set up easy to use and I can customize galleries depending on if its a client or for family. But shutterfly seems to have a better product offering when it goes beyond the basic prints.

Althought I will say I am very happy with the prints I get through smugmug.

[todosLados]

I know it's been mentioned but I wanted to put in my vote:

Better video support for videos from digi cams, like other services are doing (http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=55661&topic=8993). I know, there is mpeg1 support right now (outdated and PC dependent), and I can add a video from youtube and link it to a gallery with a thumbnail (hack).

How about native support so that they are incorporated into a normal gallery just like any other photo. I'm a fan of server side conversions to flash like youtube and yahoo video.

[beline]

Nifty idea, don't know if anyone does it really... Or, if they do, not quite like this... The standard idea first...

First, there is the ability to chose, of course, your standard "Black/White, Sepia" styles for ordered photographs. This is a kind-of big deal, and I would REALLY like something like this, the lack of which is one of the few downfalls I personally see of SmugMug. Perhaps the two options could be added to the color options menu (True, Auto, B/W, Sepia). You can do this as-is by uploading a separate B/W or sepia version, but perhaps a parent would like a B/W of one I didn't upload but doesn't want to ask or wait for me to get the email and upload the version, thats a lost sale...

My nifty idea is the ability to have custom overlays.

This gets convoluted, so... yeah..

This would mainly be for borders, but could be for anything really. Perhaps a sports photographer would like to put the titel of the event at the bottom of photograph, or make mock magazine covers (big hit when I was in soccer). Or perhaps a child portrait photographer would like to overlay some stars or something.

I know that you can do this as-is a well, but would it be that hard to offer it as an option? You could use the small version of the photo as a demonstration of the effect with no processing needed. Simply overlay a small version of the effect over the photo, then do the actual combination before sending to print. If the photo is cropped, resize the effect and fit it to the crop-lines for the preview and the send.

Could be an additional sale if the border really sells the picture. And thats additional revenue for you.

However, I fear that nifty bit has clouded my true desire, the B/W and Sepia option, so I mention it again...:thumb

PS: That bit I posted earlier about replacing photographs... Yeah, big order, like 40+ pictures... All needed retouching. It would be nice, but I am so over it. Any other orders from this point on are like child's play... Gah:rambo

[Andy]

Nifty idea, don't know if anyone does it really... Or, if they do, not quite like this... The standard idea first...
Thanks for the feature request!

[beline]

Did you notice the new comments interface? Now, commenters must choose, commenting on a photo or on the gallery. :ear
yeah, sorry, I noticed that the other afternoon when viewing a comment. It is not on a picture and not the whole gallery. Much obliged...

I would also like to take this moment to give a big thanks to whomever reads though all of this and makes the changes. I assume it is you Andy, and I was wondering where you'd like me to send the care package.

I would also like to sort-of second:

I just noticed that one of your new competitors (BackPrint) offers photo packages. They do it by putting together several standard print sizes, such as two 4x6, or 1 8x10, 2 5x7, 2 4x6, and 8 wallets for a set wholesale price which can then be marked up. From my perspective as a photographer, now I can easily sell packages of one photograph without my customer having to separately order each individual size. Sure would be nice to have this for team portraits.

[LiquidAir]

I would like to be able to hightlight a set of pictures in a gallery. When a customer goes to the gallery they initially see the tightest edit of the photos. Then the customer would be able to choose to see the full gallery if they want to.

One way to implement this would be with star ratings. Each photo would get a star rating from 1-5. Initially when you enter the gallery you would see only the highest rated photos in the gallery. A "see more" button would include the next tier down. Once you are seeing more photos, a "see fewer" button would appear to get you back to a tigter edit of the gallery.

[Andy]

I would also like to take this moment to give a big thanks to whomever reads though all of this and makes the changes. I assume it is you Andy, and I was wondering where you'd like me to send the care package.
Aw thanks we don't accept tips or care packages though, it's our pleasure to serve!

[WrenTheBlurry]

Hello,

I suspect what I am about to write may get quite long. I've spent the last month uploading all of my digital pics (I am a Standard user), and as I went along, I made notes on features I would like added/things I would like changed. In order not to duplicate suggestions, I did make a point of reading the 23 pages of THIS thread...but I did not read those other three threads that the first post linked, so I sure hope I did not duplicate anything! I also sure hope that none of this is implemented and easy to deal with, for that would mean user error! I did leave off the few suggestions that I had written down, that were already listed here.

So, here is my Big Wish List, in the order it came to me:

1) Ability to edit/crop pictures in the keyword area, and not to have to go to that picture's gallery.

2) A way for the main category page to take on the same theme as the gallery for a new category.

3) A way to make a gallery out of a keyword. (Many of my requests hinge around one problem I was having, too long to describe here, that I later circumvented. I still find the requests valid, even if I do not 'need' them any longer.)

4) A way to arrange pics from a keyword search.

5) A way to enter in the exact picture number in Smugmug view (instead of using the page drop down, or the next picture arrow.

6) A way to be notified (email? pop-up window?) when comments are added, instead of only being able to check the Control Panel.

7) Ability to have the regular slideshow when looking at a group of keyword photos, instead of just the 'style' slideshow.

8) Ability to use the Shift/Control buttons to select multiple thumbnails in the Move Pictures screen.

9) Ability to add a 'NEW' icon to new galleries, or galleries we have recently added pictures to. Alternatively (or in addition?), use cookies so that site visitors can easily see where new photos are located.

10) Ability to position keywords in the big keyword box (sorry I do not know the actual term). Right now they are just alphabetical.

11) Ability to selectively choose which keywords show up in the box. For example, if, due to my filenames, I have the keyword 'and' show up 200 times, but a keyword I find useful only has 8 associations, and is not showing up in the box, I want to be able to pick and choose which keywords the box lists, instead of having to delete lots of extraneous ones.

12) Ability to edit the keywords for all the pictures in a keyword group (could do this if you could make a group of keywords into a gallery).

13) Have existing galleries alphabetized in the 'move photo' screen.

14) Ability to see if a photo has gotten a thumbs up/down.

15) Music on slideshows.

16) An Undo button in the bulk caption screen.

17) Make (or have the option for) the Slideshow start at the picture you're looking at instead of defaulting to the first picture.

18) Ability to delete a photo from within the Slideshow.

19) Ability to add a description to a Category or Sub-Category.

20) Auto-Update the Featured Galleries such that when I put a new gallery into position #1, let the rest of them be smart enough to move down a notch, with the old #4 becoming 'un-featured'.

21) My main picture site is the TEAL theme. For some reason, there is no number 31 available in the Photo Timeline.

22) Ability to see the number of people visitng your site.

23) I am not certain I truly understand what the already noted Virtual/Smart Galleries are, but I would like the ability for pictures to be 'linked'. So if I have the same picture across two or more galleries, and someone comments on one of them, the other will get the comment as well.

OK, that is it! Let me say that I have quickly become a HUGE fan of Smugmug and Digital Grin. I am spreading the gospel wherever I can. Thank you for providing such a wondrous service! :bow

happy day,

wren

[Cindy]

...it should default to the hompage (where the catagories are listed). 1 less click to view pics. That would be so cool! :D

I'm certain this has been addressed time and again but well uhhmmmm... I'm trying to clean up the site and keep bumping into this with a couple galleries that need their own catagory... but that catagory isn't gonna grow with more galleries anytime real soon... if ever because I'll probably just keep adding to the 1. No way don't even say it... I have tons of 100+ galleries so I can't show them all on the homepage.

I'm getting ready to beg for major help overhauling & customizing my site. Hope you'll aren't to sick of me yet.

Thanks,

[Andy]

my request is to not use all the font changes. I'm going to try and answer your points now.

[Andy]

1) Ability to edit/crop pictures in the keyword area, and not to have to go to that picture's gallery.
can't be done, sorry - have to go to the gallery to use the photo tools.
2) A way for the main category page to take on the same theme as the gallery for a new category.use the default theme in control panel or specify theme in the category page.

3) A way to make a gallery out of a keyword. (Many of my requests hinge around one problem I was having, too long to describe here, that I later circumvented. I still find the requests valid, even if I do not 'need' them any longer.)
smart galleries are something that our SmugSorcerers would like to do. I don't have an answer on how/if/when though.

4) A way to arrange pics from a keyword search.ditto above.
5) A way to enter in the exact picture number in Smugmug view (instead of using the page drop down, or the next picture arrow.[/quote]
no promises, but I'll be sure that JT and BWG see this.
6) A way to be notified (email? pop-up window?) when comments are added, instead of only being able to check the Control Panel.
check comment notifies, then you get an email when comments are left.
7) Ability to have the regular slideshow when looking at a group of keyword photos, instead of just the 'style' slideshow.
more slideshow options are coming.
8) Ability to use the Shift/Control buttons to select multiple thumbnails in the Move Pictures screen.I don't understand why this is needed.9) Ability to add a 'NEW' icon to new galleries, or galleries we have recently added pictures to. Alternatively (or in addition?), use cookies so that site visitors can easily see where new photos are located.
Keywords, and feeds? :ear
10) Ability to position keywords in the big keyword box (sorry I do not know the actual term). Right now they are just alphabetical.
sorry, we don't have plans to change this.
11) Ability to selectively choose which keywords show up in the box. For example, if, due to my filenames, I have the keyword 'and' show up 200 times, but a keyword I find useful only has 8 associations, and is not showing up in the box, I want to be able to pick and choose which keywords the box lists, instead of having to delete lots of extraneous ones.No plans to change this right now, but I'll make sure the guys see it!
12) Ability to edit the keywords for all the pictures in a keyword group (could do this if you could make a group of keywords into a gallery).edit keywords bulk, you can do it now?
13) Have existing galleries alphabetized in the 'move photo' screen.sorry - just hit the letter of the alphabet you want on our keyboard, for now.

14) Ability to see if a photo has gotten a thumbs up/down.if it's in your /popular, it's gotten a thumbs up.
15) Music on slideshows.you can do this now. www.sonific.com :D
16) An Undo button in the bulk caption screen.explain further how this would help, and why it's good? Thanks.
17) Make (or have the option for) the Slideshow start at the picture you're looking at instead of defaulting to the first picture.slideshow changes are a-comin' :D
18) Ability to delete a photo from within the Slideshow.sorry, just use the gallery view... I don't see this one changing.
19) Ability to add a description to a Category or Sub-Category.you can do this if you are a power or pro customer. Don't know if the feature will be added for standard accounts.
20) Auto-Update the Featured Galleries such that when I put a new gallery into position #1, let the rest of them be smart enough to move down a notch, with the old #4 becoming 'un-featured'.nice idea.
21) My main picture site is the TEAL theme. For some reason, there is no number 31 available in the Photo Timeline.huh? Can you provide a link, and an example - a screenshot is nice too. I can't imagine what you are talking about :D
22) Ability to see the number of people visitng your site.power and pros can add all sorts of stats options.
23) I am not certain I truly understand what the already noted Virtual/Smart Galleries are, but I would like the ability for pictures to be 'linked'. So if I have the same picture across two or more galleries, and someone comments on one of them, the other will get the comment as well.
ditto above re smart galleries.

Whew! Thanks for the feature requests.

[Cindy]

my request is to not use all the font changes. I'm going to try and answer your points now.

opps... sorry Andy. I had wrote it in my signature thinking I'd just add it there and then changed my mind, copied the text here and changed the wording around hoping to explain what I wanted better. Never even noticed the font mix ups. :rolleyes

[Andy]

...it should default to the hompage (where the catagories are listed). 1 less click to view pics. That would be so cool! :D

I'm certain this has been addressed time and again but well uhhmmmm... I'm trying to clean up the site and keep bumping into this with a couple galleries that need their own catagory... but that catagory isn't gonna grow with more galleries anytime real soon... if ever because I'll probably just keep adding to the 1. No way don't even say it... I have tons of 100+ galleries so I can't show them all on the homepage.
I don't think this is possbile, I wish I had a better answer for you!

I'm getting ready to beg for major help overhauling & customizing my site. Hope you'll aren't to sick of me yet. we're ready to help! :thumb

[WrenTheBlurry]

check comment notifies, then you get an email when comments are left.


Ah, I did not know this. And I couldn't find it at first. So I did a search in the Help, and it told me to check my Mail Preferences in the Control Panel. Nice, I found the comment email ability, along with some other nifty stuff. Thanks!


"Ability to use the Shift/Control buttons to select multiple thumbnails in the Move Pictures screen. " I don't understand why this is needed.

If I want to move 20 pictures that are all next to each other from one gallery to another, it would be nice to be able to select the first one (then it highlights), and then select the last one by holding down the Shift key, which would make all of the pictures between the first and the last one highlight. Like you can do with regular file management (in the My Pictures folder, or any files, really). I had a bunch to move, and the Move Photos (Expert) would have required me to select the gallery to move them to from a drop down menu X times, versus the regular Move Photos where I had to manual click each photo X times to select it. Neither solution seemed optimal, though it is quite possible I am missing something basic here, as evidence by my lack of knowledge on other topics. :)


RE: a "NEW" icon: Keywords, and feeds? :ear

Keywords would not work, for I would need to change them myself when I added new photos (so the old ones would not be included as well), and I am lazy like that. However, there are many RSS feeds available. Many of my relatives and friends are RSS-phobic, though I will begin to tout its joy.


RE: editing keywords for all the pictures in a keyword group. edit keywords bulk, you can do it now?

Sorry, user error. I did actually go through my site and make sure all of these were still valid suggestions, yet after your post I tried to do this again, and uh, you were right. *rubs head in hands* :cry


you can do this now. www.sonific.com (http://www.sonific.com/) :D

Wow. Oh, wow. Many, many thanks, this is uberliciously cool.

"An Undo button in the bulk caption screen. " explain further how this would help, and why it's good? Thanks.

Doh, am I the only dolt that has need for this? :O Well, let's say I go to the Edit Captions/Keywords (Bulk) screen, and I have 15 out of 30 pictures that I want to add a caption to (HEY! Here is another screen where implementing the SHIFT/CTRL click-selecting thing that Windows uses would help, a lot!). I select my 15 pictures (with 15 clicks!) and then put in what I want my caption to be. I hit 'preview', and then notice I did not change one of the drop down menus, so they are all in my keywords instead. Doing a few screw-ups like this made me wish for an 'undo' button on this screen. I recognize that there is a 'remove' feature, and I could use that instead, or, just hit the back button and try again (both of which I have done).


"My main picture site is the TEAL theme. For some reason, there is no number 31 available in the Photo Timeline. " huh? Can you provide a link, and an example - a screenshot is nice too. I can't imagine what you are talking about :D

The "Photo Timeline" widget lets you search by date. Yet the drop-down menu for the day (on my TEAL-themed home page) only goes up to the number 30. So if I want to search for ONLY December 31st, 2006, for example, I just can't. Here is a screenshot, hope this helps, and that I am not going crazy. I looked at this about 10 times to make sure, heh.

http://wrentheblurry.smugmug.com/photos/131453138-M.jpg


Whew, too! Thank you for the very fast and useful help. *bow*

happy day,

wren

[Allen]

"An Undo button in the bulk caption screen. "

Doh, am I the only dolt that has need for this? :O Well, let's say I go to the Edit Captions/Keywords (Bulk) screen, and I have 15 out of 30 pictures that I want to add a caption to (HEY! Here is another screen where implementing the SHIFT/CTRL click-selecting thing that Windows uses would help, a lot!). I select my 15 pictures (with 15 clicks!) and then put in what I want my caption to be. I hit 'preview', and then notice I did not change one of the drop down menus, so they are all in my keywords instead. Doing a few screw-ups like this made me wish for an 'undo' button on this screen. I recognize that there is a 'remove' feature, and I could use that instead, or, just hit the back button and try again (both of which I have done).



Hit the back button on your browser before hitting save and all changes will
be lost and you can start over..

[Cindy]

I don't think this is possbile, I wish I had a better answer for you!
we're ready to help! :thumb

:cry Still... couldn't hurt to ask right.

Ummmmm, Andy suddenly your not looking so well, Is that the best 'green' you could come up with? :puke

Hope to be revamping by next week. Gathering ideas from other sites in what little spare time I have for now. Gosh I really like that cool drop down nav bar... I've been planning my list for it but... that may be way more than I can beg help for.

[Andy]

"My main picture site is the TEAL theme. For some reason, there is no number 31 available in the Photo Timeline. "

this is not a theme bug, rather a site bug. JT will fix it. In the meantime, you can go to http://nickname.smugmug.com/date and the 31st is there :D

[Allen]

I made a second copy of a photo that shows in the "most popular" gallery,
then moved it to a private gallery for printing. Problem is I moved the
original and not the 2nd copy. Now it's missing from "most popular".

I have found that the second copy sometimes is first and sometimes is 2nd
with no way to tell which is the original one.

I resolved this by moving it back out of the private to a completely "off the
subject" public gallery, finding that it is now again exposed in popular.
Checking the "see in gallery" on popular page to make sure it's the original.
Next moved the real 2nd copy to the private gallery and moved the original
one now in the "off the subject" public gallery back to its' starting gallery.
Whew!

Request
We need a way to tell which one is the original and which one is the 2nd copy.

[Andy]

So if I want to search for ONLY December 31st, 2006, for example, I just can't. Here is a screenshot, hope this helps, and that I am not going crazy. I looked at this about 10 times to make sure, heh.

http://wrentheblurry.smugmug.com/photos/131453138-M.jpg

This is fixed on the site :thumb

[Malte]

20) Auto-Update the Featured Galleries such that when I put a new gallery into position #1, let the rest of them be smart enough to move down a notch, with the old #4 becoming 'un-featured'.

nice idea.

It is and it was (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=422460&postcount=249) :wink

Sorry, that feature just feels more ancient everytime I use it.

Malte

[encosion]

A bigger "large" image...
I consistently want to be able to view an image larger than the "large" image currently offered... I'd like to be able to view the image in greater detail without having to download the entire original file... I don't think there's enough of a difference between the "medium" and "large" sizes
currently...

Medium: 600 x 400
Large (currently): 800 x 533
Large (proposed size): 1024 x 682

More and more people are on larger monitors / higher resolution settings these days - coupled with availability of broadband / bandwidth... I think a larger-large would be appreciated on a serious amateur / pro-sumer / professional site such as smugmug

I'm sure I'm not alone in this - but at the same time, there are probably more than a few who might object to a change in this respect too... So my suggestion would be for this to be an "extra" setting for the owner's account, so they get to specify just how large "large" should be - perhaps a choice between 2 or 3 predefined sizes?

[Daddio]

Better bulk gallery management
I guess it depends on how organised you are / want to be... But the more I use the site, the more i want to standardise the galleries, move them around, set passwords, descriptions, etc... The point is this: The bulk setting for "customising" the galleries is a nice feature, BUT I'd rather choose which features get applied to the galleries I select... For example, I want to password protect a whole bunch of galleries without losing all the description and keyword settings for each individual gallery... Or perhaps I'd like to turn the "clean" display setting ON for all the galleries, but don't want to lose any of the other specific settings per gallery like passwords, descriptions, etc...

I'll admit to not reading every post in this thread, but the quote above is touching on something I've been wanting. I'd been thinking of this as "more granular gallery settings", but the emphasis certainly is on being able to apply these settings in a bulk fashion is indicated in the quote above. I often find myself wanting to change just one or two settings across a number of galleries, but WITHOUT affecting any of the other settings within those galleries...which are often not all the same. Hope that makes sense.

Anyone else asking for this and is it on the radar?

Thanks!

[Andy]

I'll admit to not reading every post in this thread, but the quote above is touching on something I've been wanting. I'd been thinking of this as "more granular gallery settings", but the emphasis certainly is on being able to apply these settings in a bulk fashion is indicated in the quote above. I often find myself wanting to change just one or two settings across a number of galleries, but WITHOUT affecting any of the other settings within those galleries...which are often not all the same. Hope that makes sense.

Anyone else asking for this and is it on the radar?

Thanks!
Hi Daddio, SmugBrowser to the rescue:
http://smugmug.jot.com/WikiHome/SmugMugHacksAndApps

[jfriend]

A bigger "large" image...
I consistently want to be able to view an image larger than the "large" image currently offered... I'd like to be able to view the image in greater detail without having to download the entire original file... I don't think there's enough of a difference between the "medium" and "large" sizes
currently...

Medium: 600 x 400
Large (currently): 800 x 533
Large (proposed size): 1024 x 682

More and more people are on larger monitors / higher resolution settings these days - coupled with availability of broadband / bandwidth... I think a larger-large would be appreciated on a serious amateur / pro-sumer / professional site such as smugmug

I'm sure I'm not alone in this - but at the same time, there are probably more than a few who might object to a change in this respect too... So my suggestion would be for this to be an "extra" setting for the owner's account, so they get to specify just how large "large" should be - perhaps a choice between 2 or 3 predefined sizes?

See this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=32241&highlight=image+size) and this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=54157) for a discussion of the XL size which Smugmug appears to be working on. It seems to be taking awhile, but it does appear they are headed to a place that will grant your wish.

[Rhuarc]

A feature I am wodnering about is showing a photo in multiple galleries. Some of my pictures I would like to be able to display in several galleries. For example, I have a gallery that I add for each week. This is kind of like my "scratch pad" for photos. I put all the personal pictures I take in there, because I then add that gallery to my blog for peole to see. But some of these pictures I would also like to be able to have displayed in another gallery. Let's say one of these shots is of a sunset. I would like to be able to have that photo displayed in a gallery called sunsets. now I realize that I could just upload a second one, but this takes extra room, and if done often enough could double or triple the amount of space I am using. I think it would be neat to have a way to add other photos that are hosted in other galleries of your account to a different gallery.

It could be something like a button that says add photots. YOu could then either uplaod new shots, or click on another gallery to browse those photos. You could then select photots fromt that gallery, and it would add them into the current gallery as though they were sperate images.

Is anything like this possible? Thanks!

[todosLados]

Originally Posted by WrenTheBlurry
20) Auto-Update the Featured Galleries such that when I put a new gallery into position #1, let the rest of them be smart enough to move down a notch, with the old #4 becoming 'un-featured'.

Malte

Here here! I second (third? fourth?) this request, as I have to manually do the "feature gallery shuffle" every time I add a new gallery, since I always make it the first gallery featured.

[Andy]

{JT} should provide a way for customizers to get a backup of their customizations (everything on cobrand.mg) emailed to them in a txt file.

[Fuzzytek]

Request
We need a way to tell which one is the original and which one is the 2nd copy.
I have this problem a lot as well. Knowing which is the original versus the copy. If I take a moment I record the image number of the original. The copy gets a different image number, which is the one to be moved. It isn't too obvious and working with duplicate images in a gallery gets confusing especially when they are sometimes 1st listed and other times 2nd listed.

Ideal would be something I'd recommended a while back of make 2nd copy in another gallery. That is usually what people are attempting to do when creating a 2nd copy. It would simply bring the 2nd copy/move process into a single action.

P.S. I just tried the edit post function here in Dgrin - sweet edit in place windowing. :thumb:

[mike_k]

Not sure if these have been suggested yet, or not (I wasn't able to make it through all 245 posts in this thread), but I have two shopping cart suggestions (I have a pro account, if that matters).

1) It would be nice if the Home link in the cart could link to my home, not smugmug.com. If a visitor clicks on Home, they are taken out of my Web site and would probably be confused as to why they are suddenly on a different site.

I know the same cart is used for all accounts/sites (if I add photos from different accounts/sites they are placed in the same cart), but maybe there could be an option to either remove the Home link, or have the Home link direct the visitor to the last account/site they visited.

Or... rename the link to something like smugmug Home.

2) If the shopping cart is empty and a visitor clicks on the prints & gifts link in the footer, the link includes SmugMug default prices. Not sure how often this will ever happen, but it happened to me today when I was testing some instructions I am sending out. It (the price difference) is something I wouldn't want to have to explain to a customer.

Thanks for listening!
Mike

[Andy]

Not sure if these have been suggested yet, or not (I wasn't able to make it through all 245 posts in this thread), but I have two shopping cart suggestions (I have a pro account, if that matters).

1) It would be nice if the Home link in the cart could link to my home, not smugmug.com. If a visitor clicks on Home, they are taken out of my Web site and would probably be confused as to why they are suddenly on a different site.

I know the same cart is used for all accounts/sites (if I add photos from different accounts/sites they are placed in the same cart), but maybe there could be an option to either remove the Home link, or have the Home link direct the visitor to the last account/site they visited.

Or... rename the link to something like smugmug Home.
Thanks for posting. This is something on our radar, some light branding and changes in the shopping cart. Can't say when though, so stay tuned.

2) If the shopping cart is empty and a visitor clicks on the prints & gifts link in the footer, the link includes SmugMug default prices. Not sure how often this will ever happen, but it happened to me today when I was testing some instructions I am sending out. It (the price difference) is something I wouldn't want to have to explain to a customer.

Thanks for listening!
Mikeditto as above - this would be changed to catalog2 - which has no prices. BUT don't sell yourself short - your customers KNOW how much a 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 etc print costs THEM at a lab. They are buying what YOU put on that paper. :deal

[mike_k]

Thanks for posting. This is something on our radar, some light branding and changes in the shopping cart. Can't say when though, so stay tuned.

ditto as above - this would be changed to catalog2 - which has no prices. BUT don't sell yourself short - your customers KNOW how much a 4x6, 5x7, 8x10 etc print costs THEM at a lab. They are buying what YOU put on that paper. :deal

Thanks Andy. Glad to hear that these are on the radar. :thumb As far as the pricing - I agree with what you're saying. I don't have a problem with my prices versus what someone might pay at Walgreens. I think the issue goes back to the differentiation between my site and SmugMug.com. If a visitor to my site clicks on prints & gifts from an empty shopping cart, they see a list of prices on "my site" which are different than the ones I'm actually charging them. Most visitors won't know that they are no longer on my site but are instead on a generic SmugMug page. That's just an explanation that I'd like to avoid. :D ("Your site says a 4x6 is $.19, but the shopping cart charges me $.25. Why are you charging me more than your standard pricing?"...:rolleyes )

One more thought on the Home issue. The destination of the Home link could be different pages - not necessarily the home page to my site. For example, if a visitor reaches my site via a link to a ShareGroup - that ShareGroup should be "Home". If the ShareGroup contains private galleries, directing the visitor to my home page would not get them to where they want to be. Maybe there's already a better answer to this, and this is a different issue, but it seems that with ShareGroups, the only way to get to the root of the group is to use Back many times.

Thanks again for listening!
Mike

[southeasternphotography]

The "Home" link is very confusing and not really labeled properly. Like the originator of the thread, people think they are going to the "home" page of the owner of the gallery they are in. They may have "stumbled" into the gallery. They then hit home to see the main page and get sent to the Smugmug home page. Then they lose interest and go elsewhere. Not fair!! Please either change that or re-label it "Smugmug Home".

BTW, I am very happy with Smugmugs attention to us Pro users. They have fixed my three pet peeves (refreshing whole page instead of the photo window, added a better interface for small, medium, large, and added the help to the thumbs, and made the "staying logged in even after you log out issue" go away by adding the check box for "public" computer users (works for us at home, too!). Thanks for the super support!

[Andy]

The "Home" link is very confusing and not really labeled properly. Like the originator of the thread, people think they are going to the "home" page of the owner of the gallery they are in. They may have "stumbled" into the gallery. They then hit home to see the main page and get sent to the Smugmug home page. Then they lose interest and go elsewhere. Not fair!! Please either change that or re-label it "Smugmug Home".

BTW, I am very happy with Smugmugs attention to us Pro users. They have fixed my three pet peeves (refreshing whole page instead of the photo window, added a better interface for small, medium, large, and added the help to the thumbs, and made the "staying logged in even after you log out issue" go away by adding the check box for "public" computer users (works for us at home, too!). Thanks for the super support!Thanks for being our pro! And thanks for the request.

Idea: Put in a custom header, and your visitors won't see that link :D it's a cinch, and we can help if you wish. Of course, you can go wild, too: Here's the direct link to the customizing forum: http://www.dgrin.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31 and here's a great thread to start out with, for your customization needs: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=52812. If you'd like to see some of the possibilities, have a look here: http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/1801307 for some really well done SmugMug sites!