Mark collected photos in your galleries and add "from..." links to your lightbox

thenickdude · February 15, 2014

Hey all,

In some of my galleries, I have mixture of regular photos, photos imported by smart rules, and photos which have been collected from other galleries by hand. The problem is, if you're using Collage Landscape, there's no way to tell these apart! The old "SmugMug-style" gallery shows a "from..." link under each photo which you can follow to find the original, but this is absent in the new gallery styles. This makes it really tricky to maintain my galleries.

I worked out how to add features to SmugMug from my "Unofficial SmugMug Extension for Chrome" (i.e. features that are only visible to you as the site owner when you have the extension installed). So for my first feature, I want to add this ability in. Here's some screenshots:

I'd like to hear feedback before I publish this version of the extension: Does this look like something you'd use? Should I tweak the appearance to be more useful?

denisegoldberg · February 15, 2014

I would definitely use the "from" link in lightbox. I'd like this available to viewers too.

I think I would also use the badge to mark the photos - but that I'd like for my eyes only.

--- Denise

thenickdude · March 25, 2014

This feature is now available as part of my Unofficial SmugMug Extension for Chrome, version 0.3.0. If you're interested, please download it here:

http://www.sherlockphotography.org/Customisations/SmugMug-for-Chrome

If you've installed the extension already, Chrome should update you to this version automatically within a few hours. To manually update, click the menu button, then Tools->Extensions. Tick the "developer mode" tickbox at the top right, then click "update extensions now". You should see the version number next to the Unofficial SmugMug Extension for Chrome update to 0.3.0 after a couple of minutes.

Once you've installed it head over to your regular .smugmug.com domain name (not your custom domain name), click the SM icon on the address bar, then click "SmugMug tweaks" to turn on the "collected" badges you want to display.

Darter02 · March 25, 2014

That's really cool! I am still hoping they'll fix this issue so my users can track images back to their host galleries from collected galleries.

Feature request thread here.

thenickdude · March 25, 2014

Darter, I think that is a real possibility now that they've included a bunch of other stuff in the Lightbox view (including keywords). Adding another line for "from..." would be trivial now.

Mark collected photos in your galleries and add "from..." links to your lightbox

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