Email Share Question

echmrr

I would like to keep the sare feature enabled in my galleries, but I do not want copies of my images being emailed (even with the watermark). Is there a way to diable images from being inclueded in the emails?

Thanks!
Eric H.

jfriend

echmrr wrote:

I would like to keep the sare feature enabled in my galleries, but I do not want copies of my images being emailed (even with the watermark). Is there a way to diable images from being inclueded in the emails?

Thanks!
Eric H.

Do you realize that your image is not actually sent with the email. What is sent is a link to your image. If the viewer can only view plain text email, they have to click on the link to see your image. If they have an HTML-capable email client, the image is displayed inline, but it's fetched dynamically from your site and not actually attached to the email.

I'm not aware of any way to not include the image from the Share button. If you want to just send a link to your gallery, then you can just copy the URL from the URL bar in your browser and compose your own email, there's no need to use Smugmug's Share button.

echmrr

jfriend wrote:

Do you realize that your image is not actually sent with the email. What is sent is a link to your image. If the viewer can only view plain text email, they have to click on the link to see your image. If they have an HTML-capable email client, the image is displayed inline, but it's fetched dynamically from your site and not actually attached to the email.

I'm not aware of any way to not include the image from the Share button. If you want to just send a link to your gallery, then you can just copy the URL from the URL bar in your browser and compose your own email, there's no need to use Smugmug's Share button.

Thanks for the response! My issue is that even though the actual image is not being emailed, you can still right click and save the image to your computer (even though this is disabled on the SM site). Someone with average Photoshop skills could get a decent 5x7 out of it. I love the idea of my clients being able to share links of my galleries to other potential clients.... I just wish it didn't have to inclued an image. Thanks!

jfriend

echmrr wrote:

Thanks for the response! My issue is that even though the actual image is not being emailed, you can still right click and save the image to your computer (even though this is disabled on the SM site). Someone with average Photoshop skills could get a decent 5x7 out of it. I love the idea of my clients being able to share links of my galleries to other potential clients.... I just wish it didn't have to inclued an image. Thanks!

Gotcha.

That seems a bit like a bug to me. If you have right-click protection, then the email that goes out should have right-click protection in it too. I think that is technically possible by doing the same thing they do in your galleries (putting a blank, transparent gif image over the top of your image). You might want to post in the bug reporting thread.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

Gotcha.

That seems a bit like a bug to me.

It's not a bug, no more than if you post a link to an image on Ebay or this forum - we only right click protect when it's on SmugMug.

Thanks.

jfriend

Andy wrote:

It's not a bug, no more than if you post a link to an image on Ebay or this forum - we only right click protect when it's on SmugMug.

Thanks.

You love to argue what is and isn't a bug. My definition of a bug is when something doesn't meet the reasonable expectations of a customer. Developers rarely see it that way by the way, but it's the healthiest definition for making great product. Regardless of the semantics, this is not meeting the expectations of this user and the problem is solvable if you cared to. I'm not going to argue whether you do or don't call it a bug. You can call it a missing feature or a feature request if you want.

FYI, this is way different than posting on a forum. You can't do anything about it there and it wasn't your code that posted a link on a forum. In the case of this email, you could right-click protect the image in the email if you chose to. It's just HTML in the email and it's your HTML. There's no reason I'm aware of that you couldn't put a blank gif over the top of the image in the email the same as you do in the web page if you chose to.

schwartzphoto

Any fix?
Is there a work around for this? Or at least a way to add a watermark to out going emails?

David

Andy

schwartzphoto wrote:

Is there a work around for this? Or at least a way to add a watermark to out going emails?

David

Hi David, if you watermark your images in the gallery, then the email will be with a watermarked image.