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Re: Smart gallery maximum display size not applying
Smart galleries honor the size from the original gallery.
From the help page at https://help.smugmug.com/display-a-photo-in-multiple-galleries-ryaGgev1EBM:
Note: All photos that are collected into other galleries will honor the settings from the original gallery. This means if you've applied watermarks, custom pricing, limited the largest size, etc., these will apply to your photos no matter where they're displayed. If you want to block the sales of photos completely, be sure to set a pricelist with no items for sale and apply it to the original source gallery.
Re: Need of Help Salvaging a Landscape Shot
Content-aware fill in Photoshop will easily fix everything but the lower right corner. The problem there is that part of the tire above the snow line is gone and CA fill probably won't be very much help. I think the best option would be to crop the right edge so that you lose the part of the tire that's gone. There will still be some stuff that needs fixing in the snow, but that should be fairly easy to do with a clone stamp or healing brush. If you are dead-set against cropping, then you can either try to reconstruct the missing detail in the tire (tedious, but maybe doable), or you could try cloning in enough bushes to cover the missing tire pixels.
Richard
Re: A few photos from my New England 'Autumn Colors' trip.
2 is epic!
For number 1, if mine I would crop it just above the tree line.....it rocks then in my view.
For the last one, FG has too many distracting elements.....I would crop it just above that black rock at bottom right edge....then it becomes cool with a diagonal splitting image in half.
Cheers Brody!
Re: Show Us Your New SmugMug Customized Sites!
@PJPhoto said:
How does it look? I've been told the logo looks blurred so would be good to know if others feel the same...if it is blurred I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong as the original png is very clear! (not that I'm bothered by the logo, it was only a 5 minute text job in photoshop!).
Yes, the logo does look a little blurry but not to an extent where it would be disturbing or otherwise would look bad. My guess is that it's because it has a transparent background, and those images have their issues.
As for your site design, I like it. It's clean, simple, logically structured and easy to navigate. Personally, I do not like to have the little house icon in the breadcrumb navigation displayed because the proportions to the text are way off, but that's just very subjective. Oh, and I also like your imagery work!
Cheers,
Can
Re: Show Us Your New SmugMug Customized Sites!
Hello,
There is a slight blur to the logo. I may have not noticed it if you didn't bring my attention to it.
From here on, these are my opinions - you do what you want to do.
The location and other tags are distracting.
Since you state in your About page (which isn't one of the many links on the top of the page) you are into landscape, I suggest you make that a main Gallery. From the Landscape gallery you can divide up my location if that's important to you.
Personally I would prefer them to be organized by type first (shore, mountains, city, etc.) and then by location - only because I am not familiar with those locations. And if you tag them properly, potential buyers can find what they want.
I suggest you re-write, rearrange your about page - get to the point of the site first. If I'm interested, I'll read on. Knowing you also have a Flickr account with images that you decided not to bring to your portfolio site isn't important to me.
And speaking about the purpose and photos - I suggest you either push to sell your images (they are quite good) or remove a bunch of them because a casual visitor will be overwhelmed with the number of images. You could then use the excess images to fill out your Instagram account - that will help draw to your site. And if do decide to ramp up your IG activity - be consistent with what you post. Don't post cars, fish heads, and northern lights back to back. People who follow IG'ers do so for specific content.
Other Social - if you are not going to Tweet on a regular basis, remove the button from the site.
The Facebook link is broken - if you don't post regularly, remove the button.
There you have it - opinions from a random dude on the Internet.
uncool
Re: Family site security settings
However if you have a folder (and underlying galleries) with a password and then galleries within that folder with a different password, that doesn't seem to work. The passwords get confused. I found that when I have two passwords set up, it asks for the top password not the one attached to the sub folder or gallery. I have to spend time testing my passwords in this case.
I usually have my chrome browser open as well as Safari where I do all the smugmug changes. On the chrome browser I test the site in an unlogged on state to see how the passwords work. However once you have entered the password for a site, it is remembered for 24 hours I think, even if you are not the owner.
On my site so far, my requirements are like you Winsome: I have a public folder called portfolio, with no password. But within that folder I have two sub folders that are set public/access with password. That seems to work for people I want to see my private photos. My site is photobooks.smugmug.com
I think it's a matter of trying it out with two browsers open and getting friends to test out your links and ask them if they can get in. I also found the smugmug training session on Lynda.com helpful although it did not go into much detail on these security aspects. My local library has a free membership to Lynda.com to access the videos.
ecco
Re: Adding Date to Gallery and Sorting by that Date
@WinsomeWorks said:
@jgwalter said:
There does not appear to be a way to assign (or change) the date that a gallery was created? I'd like to create a sort of, newsfeed of galleries ordered by that date. Any ideas? Also, if there is a folder nested in a folder that contains images, it seems to only be placed at the beginning. No ability to sort.I may not be completely understanding your issue, & maybe it's been solved adequately (until SmugMug changes something) for your needs. However, I just wanted to be sure you know you can also click & drag galleries & folders around within the Organizer. I mean, even if you have the order set to "Date Created - ascending", for instance, while you're looking at a gallery's contents in the Organizer, or a folder or sub-folder's contents, you can click on a photo's thumbnail, or a gallery's thumbnail, or a folder's thumbnail & drag it to the spot you want in your line-up. At that point, the order will re-set to "Manual Order" or something like that (I forget the exact wording). but when other galleries or folders are added, they'll continue to fall into the order they originally were going in, while still saving the manual changes.
Thanks for the response. Yes, I am aware of the ability to manually order a gallery. It is way too time-consuming, and error-prone, for my intended result. I've since moved away from using SmugMug for this purpose.
jgwalter
Re: Alberta landscapes, but need recommendations for a polarizer/landscape kit.
@MoonMan04 said:
@black mamba said:
Hi, Kyle. I happen to use, on occasion, the very Tokina lens you have. A CP is a real staple in my shooting. When it comes to filters...any kind.... spend the most you can afford. I personally use both Nikon and B&W filters. There are a few good ones from other sources as well. Any time you put additional glass....filters....into the mix, you want the highest quality you can get your hands on. It's not an area you want to base your choice on pricing alone.Good to know! Like I mentioned before I'm looking into getting a kit. I've seen some folks that have an attachment at the end of their lens where they can add multiple different filters. Do you know anything about those kits. I feel like it makes more sense to buy one of those kits where I'm not limited to only one option. For instance, what if I wanted to use a CP, but also a ND filter?
I bought one of those type of kits you're referring to. I think there are several variations of this concept around; mine was based on the Cokin system, but it could accommodate other manufacturer's filters. I didn't like using it. I found it to be somewhat of a pain to fool with. If I did only tripod work, I might feel a little different on that point. If I left the thing attached to the camera, and I was moving around a bit, it was just ungainly. And, if you're a stickler for the highest quality work you can put out there, I think the superior glass in the screw-in stuff is a far better option. Each option, though, has strong points.
Re: Show and Tell: Best of Alaska Wildlife
My favorites of this set are the 6th photo and the last photo.
I would like to see the first photo with more space around it.
Christmas tree harvest
If you've never seen it, it's hard to imagine the vast acreage throughout the entire southern Appalachians that is devoted to Christmas tree cultivation. In some cases, these trees seem to stretch from horizon to horizon.....consuming one mountain range on top of another.
These shots show some of the trees being processed by field crews. After selecting appropriate tress, they are cut and loaded on the trailers you see here. They then go to these staging areas for final grading and processing. Keep in mind that scenes like these are being repeated all over those mountains. When the trees are finally ready, vast herds of semi-trucks show up, ready to load them and get them to markets.
