SmugMug Feature Requests #4

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited June 28, 2008 in SmugMug Support
Please put your feature requests in this thread.

Occasionally we will move a thread, or posts from a thread, to here, for the sake of having everything in one place. Thanks in advance for your input and telling us like it is!

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

From the prior feature thread, FRs that have been added to the site:
FR Thread wrote:
Digital Downloads
Custom Watermarks
Pro notification email
Proof and reupload
Put pro's name in confirmation email to customer
Speed up pro sales details
Show shipping mode chosen to the pro
Filter the good stuff better --> /popular
Better Google Maps usage
Improve the uploaders, don't allow bogus files
Set prices by aspect ratio
Bulk Gallery pro pricing
Pricing templates
Breadcrumb navigation in control panel and underlying pages
State "sizes in inches" for printed products
Speed up the pro pricing
Load thumbnails faster
Improve the help pages
More help pages
Backprinting

From the prior feature thread, FRs that have been made:
FR Thread wrote:
Coupons
Packages
Virtual Galleries
Enhance Journal viewing style
Make smugmug XL
Pricing by Category and Subcategory
Better Uploader
Community personalization
Template or gallery tools for a whole category or subcat
Keyword GUI mods: check similar, etc
Allow pro branding in the cart
Allow meta-tag customization
Allow /popular results to show to site owner
Parse/error check for HTML (like missing </div> etc like HTML Tidy
Add Bulk Zoom Thumb as a SmugMug Feature
Homepage Slideshow
Paypal Integration
Owner access originals when logged in.
Better exif (lose the popup)
Add exif link to the share.mg page
Auto-rotate based on Exif, be a user settable toggle
DITCH "negative" and make a COOLING filter.
Filenames in the shopping cart
Message notification of invite to community
Bulk Geo-tagging
Add calendars, cards, photobooks, multi-image items, panorama prints
More video support other than MPG-1
Improve the GUI for arranging galleries
Add Gallery Name to Password prompt screen
Pro's pricing - ajax the pricing allow buyers to see before going to cart
set expiration for pricing, and/or password in a gallery
set default gallery style (starting gallery style, but leave viewer contolled ON)
Category, subcategory passwording
Search in private and or passworded galleries
Make all of smugsearch customizable and theme-able
Comments control panel
Comments page for public consumption (cross-gallery)
Add B&W as an option in the shopping cart.
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Comments

  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    In this space I will post a list of new requests, in a summarized fashion...
  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    From the prior feature thread, FRs that have been added to the site:

    Geeze why doesn't smumug ever listen to its users' requests?



    I keeeeeed!
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
  • dmcdmc Registered Users Posts: 427 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Please put your feature requests in this thread.

    Occasionally we will move a thread, or posts from a thread, to here, for the sake of having everything in one place. Thanks in advance for your input and telling us like it is!

    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


    From the prior feature thread, FRs that have been made:

    gee whiz, looking at the list of "current" FR's, I see almost no requests for enhancements to the picture viewing experience... I know I've been a broken record about new features within the current styles... specifically in the Journal style.... and I don't see it listed :cry ...

    from 2 FR threads ago, Dec 2005.

    Journal Medium/Large (or whatever size I want) plus allow me to select how many pics per gallery page...
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=206388#post206388


    I've seen other requests to be able to see comments and add comments to pics while in journal style.
    thumb.gif
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    dmc wrote:
    gee whiz, looking at the list of "current" FR's, I see almost no requests for enhancements to the picture viewing experience... I know I've been a broken record about new features within the current styles... specifically in the Journal style.... and I don't see it listed :cry ...

    from 2 FR threads ago, Dec 2005.

    Journal Medium/Large (or whatever size I want) plus allow me to select how many pics per gallery page...
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=206388#post206388

    thumb.gif

    they are there, and we're aware deal.gif
  • dmcdmc Registered Users Posts: 427 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    they are there, and we're aware deal.gif

    Hey, did you just add it, or did I really miss it??? eek7.gif

    thanks either way!
  • BenA2BenA2 Registered Users Posts: 364 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    Arrgghh... I thought for sure I had posted this request in the Feature Request forum, but I just found it here--obviously not in the right place to be picked up.

    Request: Please extend the ability to set the default for TRUE color or AUTO color prints to Power Users.

    Thanks
  • renstarrenstar Registered Users Posts: 167 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2006
    BenA2 wrote:
    Arrgghh... I thought for sure I had posted this request in the Feature Request forum, but I just found it here--obviously not in the right place to be picked up.

    Request: Please extend the ability to set the default for TRUE color or AUTO color prints to Power Users.

    Thanks

    I'll second this.. and give power users backprinting or at least something new

    Also, a vote for panorama's (since EZ prints does them)

    And one more thing, id like to see the navigation buttons on the critique style bigger (as in buttons maybe, not text). I will get around to customizing them at some point, but frankly, i am perpetually having trouble finding them and i know people (like grandparents) that didnt even realize there were more images in the gallery
  • pat.kanepat.kane Registered Users Posts: 332 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2006
    Clean, table version of the Your Statistics > More Details page as suggested by dortress in http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=361273&postcount=458

    Yes, we can add Statcounter and/or Google Analytics, but there's no reason that smugmug can't clean up this page as well.
  • SteveMSteveM Registered Users Posts: 482 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2006
    Batch Proof Delay Upload
    Not sure how doable this might be, but I know the photo replace feature is one-file-per in a command line fashion. Wouldn't it be possible to take the same idea, but use the Smuggy drag and drop? So when you'd click "replace photo (batch)" it'd bring up the same general watermark/move/delete batch GUI we're used to, the difference being each little thumbnail would be a tiny Smuggy face drag/drop window, with Smuggy replaced by our appropriate thumbnail. Seems like almost all the code is there, just would have to be reworked and each Smuggy instance would have to know where he belonged (to which file) and only allow for one file to be dropped. That certainly would make things a lot easier for batch replace and the new proof delays.

    Speaking of the Smuggy drag/drop, I'd also like to see not just the a "View your upload log" and "Return to your gallery" but an echo of the filenames it received, cuz I'm old and sometimes I lose my place. :)

    Steve
    www.downriverphotography.com
    Steve Mills
    BizDev Account Manager
    Image Specialist & Pro Concierge

    http://www.downriverphotography.com
  • SteveMSteveM Registered Users Posts: 482 Major grins
    edited August 13, 2006
    My take on selling packages.
    This is something I'd really like to see, and I know it's been previously requested on more than a few occasions, but here's how I envision it realistically.

    1) A simple pro user interface, similiar to the pro pricing interface that allows you to add a new package profile and include certain sizes and amounts of prints. It would then show you based on your new package profile, Smugmug's @cost pricing for you and allow you to define a package price for the customer.

    2) After you have at least one package profile set, you could add the option to each gallery, or globally (or another neat batch feature, with checkboxes or those neat red/green clicky borders) which would show an icon next to the shopping cart/buy this photo icons when viewing a photo that exists in a gallery where a package purchase is available.

    3) With at least one photo added to the package option, the customer could be taken to a variation of the "arrange photos" GUI. Thumbnails of the photos they selected could be shuffled around to fill the available slots to decide how many of each and which size of what.

    4) After the package selection is made, it'd be off to the shopping cart as usual, but with those selections automagically inputted at the correct amount and sizes, ready for fine tuning by the customer as to cropping, etc., only instead of price, listing the package profile name, i.e., "Family Package" or "Three 8x10 Package" or whatever the pro user defined.

    I know this would increase my sales at least somewhat and make for a far more flexible, more professional environment for our customers.


    As a side note, for us portrait and sports photographers, I'd like to eventually see the same type of system used whereas a pro user could upload an image, lets call it a custom template/border/whatever, that may have perhaps COUGARS 2006 and some baseball/football/basketball graphics or whatever, with certain print-sized holes in the template, that could in the same way have photos added to them and ordered/printed as a whole. You get where I'm going with this. Team photos, collages, personal baseball cards, magazine covers, etc. that would require little to no intervention from Smugmug or the printhouse (maybe different printstock?), but... baby steps! :)

    Anyhow, hope these ideas are something of a consideration. Thanks for reading, guys! thumb.gif


    Steve
    www.downriverphotography.com
    Steve Mills
    BizDev Account Manager
    Image Specialist & Pro Concierge

    http://www.downriverphotography.com
  • Brett MickelsonBrett Mickelson Registered Users Posts: 119 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2006
    Thumbs Up/Down Stats
    "Allow /popular results to show to site owner"

    I'm not sure if this is the same thing I'm thinking of, but I'll just make a quick request for it here...

    I'd like to be able to see how many thumbs up and thumbs down votes individual photos of mine have had. Also, I would like to be able to see where my photos/galleries are ranked in the daily rankings.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2006
    "Allow /popular results to show to site owner"

    I'm not sure if this is the same thing I'm thinking of, but I'll just make a quick request for it here...

    I'd like to be able to see how many thumbs up and thumbs down votes individual photos of mine have had. Also, I would like to be able to see where my photos/galleries are ranked in the daily rankings.
    Thanks for the feature request :D
  • dogwooddogwood Registered Users Posts: 2,572 Major grins
    edited August 14, 2006
    bulk proof-delay uploads
    Would love to see a feature to bulk upload replacement files as part of the proof-delay feature. Right now, each file has to be uploaded/replaced individually.

    Portland, Oregon Photographer Pete Springer
    website blog instagram facebook g+

  • JeffBowserJeffBowser Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited August 16, 2006
    I second the below. I'd also like to see a "PAD" gallery, like Pbase has - a meta-gallery where one can post a pic a day or so for commentary, etc.. to bring it out from the masses and masses of photos uploaded.
    "Allow /popular results to show to site owner"

    I'm not sure if this is the same thing I'm thinking of, but I'll just make a quick request for it here...

    I'd like to be able to see how many thumbs up and thumbs down votes individual photos of mine have had. Also, I would like to be able to see where my photos/galleries are ranked in the daily rankings.
  • DodgeV83DodgeV83 Registered Users Posts: 379 Major grins
    edited August 16, 2006
    #proof days:

    PLEASE change this so I can set the Proof-Delay per PORTFOLIO instead of just PER GALLERY!
  • wetsandswetsands Registered Users Posts: 42 Big grins
    edited August 16, 2006
    Andy (or any of the smugmug crew),
    any word on getting that 800, 600, & 400 pixel width option under the digital download section yet? (that way we can still use a watermark on the original file).

    Also, as previously mentioned in a prior comment, anyway to get the wording of 'Low Rez" changed to "small rez/ or small size" or something? I've had a few comments from potential customers concerning purchasing "low rez "files ( they believe the wording refers to a low quality file rather than a quality small file ).
    Thanks!
    jd
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 16, 2006
    wetsands wrote:
    Andy (or any of the smugmug crew),
    any word on getting that 800, 600, & 400 pixel width option under the digital download section yet? (that way we can still use a watermark on the original file).

    Also, as previously mentioned in a prior comment, anyway to get the wording of 'Low Rez" changed to "small rez/ or small size" or something? I've had a few comments from potential customers concerning purchasing "low rez "files ( they believe the wording refers to a low quality file rather than a quality small file ).
    Thanks!
    jd
    Hi JD, thanks for the suggestions. No, no word yet. The feature is very new, give us a some time. I'll be sure that the team sees your request though!
  • dmcdmc Registered Users Posts: 427 Major grins
    edited August 17, 2006
    Opt out all "Public access" tools
    I really did look to see if this was already on the list.... I couldn't find it

    Let me opt out of Smugmug's public access features from www.smugmug.com

    How about adding Account level settings like these??? (Category, gallery, photo levels later )

    Public Smugmug "Search" displays YOUR photos: NO
    Public Smugmug "Browse" displays YOUR Categories/Galleries: NO
    Public "Map This" displays YOUR photos: NO
    Public "Popular Photos" displays YOUR photos: NO


    Allow Google/Yahoo/etc crawling (if possible): NO
    Allow Search access to your Real First and Last name from your account settings screen:
    NO (did you know this is intentionally not blocked?)

    Lastly... Whenever I create a new gallery, I get all kinds of looky loos who have nothing better to do than browse the Family category for new galleries.... I say NO to this and any other public access features too.

    This is all the security I need. hidden in plain sight (without Smugmug's searchlight) Not the same as making galleries private - which ruins the ability to invite someone to my site...

    Of course, my keywords would still work.thumb.gif

    a couple of reference links:
    Feb 2005 - don't want photos to be public
    Smugmug searches your real last name
    more opt outers
  • jpbealjpbeal Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited August 17, 2006
    IPTC information
    I'd like to see the IPTC information in the original file get included in the 'smaller' versions that smugmug creates for viewing. it would be just one more level of protection for maintaining copyright to our work.

    it would also be nice if the information entered into smugmug (keywords, captions, etc) were entered/added to the appropriate IPTC fields of the original. they would then go with the file as they are downloaded, regardless of how they are acquired.


    thanks,
    jpbeal.
  • tsk1979tsk1979 Registered Users Posts: 937 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2006
    Kludge!
    Bug reporting thread and feature reporting threads were good when smumug was small. But not its all too big. Why not have a bug reporting system or something like bugzilla. Members can put in feature requests or bug reports.
    Bugzilla has inbuild bug reporting system, that helps weed out duplicate bugs and feature requests. Lets move away from this
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2006
    More restrictive guest passwords?
    I'd like to be able to assign (or not) guest passwords by gallery. That way I could be sure guests didn't retitle or reorganize galleries they have no business with while giving them effectively free access to certain galleries.

    To make this more concrete, suppose I want to have some sort of photofinishing group project or contest with various people working on the same shot and uploading their completed versions to a specific gallery. And suppose this was publicized on the web. It'd be nice to restrict the access.

    At a minimum, it be nice to have a gallery option to allow/prohibit guest access.

    I read the help pages, and if they are up to date, there doesn't seem to be a good way to do this.
    If not now, when?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 18, 2006
    rutt wrote:
    I'd like to be able to assign (or not) guest passwords by gallery. That way I could be sure guests didn't retitle or reorganize galleries they have no business with while giving them effectively free access to certain galleries.

    To make this more concrete, suppose I want to have some sort of photofinishing group project or contest with various people working on the same shot and uploading their completed versions to a specific gallery. And suppose this was publicized on the web. It'd be nice to restrict the access.

    At a minimum, it be nice to have a gallery option to allow/prohibit guest access.

    I read the help pages, and if they are up to date, there doesn't seem to be a good way to do this.

    Thanks for the feature request, Rutt.
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2006
    Sorry if this has been mentioned before
    This is a tiny request. In the cropping feature can we have a 7x5 in addition to 5x7. I find myself having to type this in the custom box way to often when uploading family photos where I want the orig on my harddrive so I just edit through SmugMug.
    thanks
    Shawna
    www.shawnaseto.com

    Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody, not no how.

    Join Smugmug get $5 bucks off!
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2006
    "Allow /popular results to show to site owner"

    I'm not sure if this is the same thing I'm thinking of, but I'll just make a quick request for it here...

    I'd like to be able to see how many thumbs up and thumbs down votes individual photos of mine have had. Also, I would like to be able to see where my photos/galleries are ranked in the daily rankings.


    ditto
    Shawna
    www.shawnaseto.com

    Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody, not no how.

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  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2006
    How about this request? I would like to see one more layer for catagories>subcatagories>one more.
    I know this had been addressed and smugmug wants to keep it simple. What about for pros only? Has this been ruled out as a possibility?
    Shawna
    www.shawnaseto.com

    Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody, not no how.

    Join Smugmug get $5 bucks off!
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 19, 2006
    This is a tiny request. In the cropping feature can we have a 7x5 in addition to 5x7. I find myself having to type this in the custom box way to often when uploading family photos where I want the orig on my harddrive so I just edit through SmugMug.
    thanks
    Select 5x7 and then hit "rotate crop." naughty.gif
  • brianbbrianb Registered Users Posts: 96 Big grins
    edited August 20, 2006
    Rotate Current Image
    While I would love auto rotate on EXIF info, I would rename the current "Rotate Photos" to "Rotate Photos (Bulk)" and add 2 new options: "Rotate Photo Left" and "Rotate Photo Right" under Photo Tools. Reason is that in the current rotate photos page, all you get are thumbnails - for many of my photos its hard to tell which way it should be rotated, and if I can't remember, I'd have to leave the rotate page, go back to find the image, view it at a larger size, then go back and rotate again, a huge pain! (or if after I performed a bulk rotate, and notice later that one is incorrect, it could be adjusted immediately instead of having to go back into bulk rotate.) It would be so much easier to just browse through the photos normally and have rotate as a single image option so I don't lose my place.

    Also, maybe on the Bulk Rotate page you can display what the EXIF rotate says, so we can at least see how it should be even if we still have to pick each photo.


    Oh, and keywords & search for private and password protected galleries.


    Thanks,
    Brian
  • smhs.imagessmhs.images Registered Users Posts: 137 Major grins
    edited August 21, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    Select 5x7 and then hit "rotate crop." naughty.gif
    hehe. Never noticed that "rotate crop" box... duh!
    Thanks
    Shawna
    www.shawnaseto.com

    Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody, not no how.

    Join Smugmug get $5 bucks off!
  • CindyCindy Registered Users Posts: 542 Major grins
    edited August 21, 2006
    Catagory and Sub-C Descriptions
    I need to somehow place descriptions over entire Catagory's &/or Sub-C exspecailly for sports photos.
    Example Sports -> Softball (with a description) -> then all the galleries.
    I'd really like the description to be listed on the page showing all the galleries... above the list of galleries. I'm thinking just adding the ability to put a gallery(s) in a gallery would be really helpful here as it would also enable: An extra catagory/gallery level. A whole new season/school year is beginning today. As it stands right now I'm wondering do I just start adding this years football galleries above last years (causes the sub-c page load time to be longer). Or should I re-name football to football 05/06 and create a new sub-cat titled football 06/07... I'd like to keep my list of sub-c page looking pretty clean and this may clutter it fairly quick. hmmmm decisions, decisions - lol.
    Cindy Colbert (Utterback) • Wishing You Co-Bear Love, Hugs & Laughter!!!
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited August 21, 2006
    Cindy wrote:
    I need to somehow place descriptions over entire Catagory's &/or Sub-C exspecailly for sports photos.
    Example Sports -> Softball (with a description) -> then all the galleries.
    I'd really like the description to be listed on the page showing all the galleries... above the list of galleries. I'm thinking just adding the ability to put a gallery(s) in a gallery would be really helpful here as it would also enable: An extra catagory/gallery level. A whole new season/school year is beginning today. As it stands right now I'm wondering do I just start adding this years football galleries above last years (causes the sub-c page load time to be longer). Or should I re-name football to football 05/06 and create a new sub-cat titled football 06/07... I'd like to keep my list of sub-c page looking pretty clean and this may clutter it fairly quick. hmmmm decisions, decisions - lol.
    Cindy, see my FAQ: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26043

    #68.
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