Photo Pricing

Candid Arts

So every now and again I'll upload a square photo, or 1:2 photo, or something...

Is there a way to either do "Image" pricing (pricing per image in a gallery) to multiple photos at once? Say I have 10 square images (ideally throughout my entire site, but inside one gallery would be even better than it is now) and I need to price them separately than the gallery they are in (because the gallery is set to only sell 3:2 images, and these 10 are a 1:1). Is there a way set up now, or can there be one in the future to select all the square photos (or 1:2, or any ratio that multiple photos are) and set their prices? Because manually doing each photo for each available size, paper finish, canvas, thin wrap, metal print is annoying and time consuming. It would be nice to be able to make a preset for image ratio pricing, and just be able to apply that to a set of selected photos.

Like I said, it would be perfect to be able to do it site wide, but even the ability to be able to do it within one gallery would be nice.

Also, I don't know if SM has the ability to know what ratio the files are, but have the gallery prices set with all the normal 3:2 prices, but the 1:1, 1:2, etc... prices set as well and when you upload to a gallery, it applies the correct prices to the corresponding photos with matching ratios.

I only allow photos to be bought in sizes that does not require cropping. Because I shot and edited the photo that way I did for a reason, so I don't want them to choose a size that will limit what the print will show. A way to be able to completely disable cropping by the customer would be nice too, but that's a separate thread.

Thanks for the help.

Ann McRae

You can set individual image pricing. Open the photo, then the pricing page. Click the word 'image' from the very top. You will want to use the 'apply this pricing' tool to set the prices for all items to $0 first, then overwrite that price for the relevant print sizes. Be sure to save.


ann

Candid Arts wrote:

So every now and again I'll upload a square photo, or 1:2 photo, or something...

Is there a way to either do "Image" pricing (pricing per image in a gallery) to multiple photos at once? Say I have 10 square images (ideally throughout my entire site, but inside one gallery would be even better than it is now) and I need to price them separately than the gallery they are in (because the gallery is set to only sell 3:2 images, and these 10 are a 1:1). Is there a way set up now, or can there be one in the future to select all the square photos (or 1:2, or any ratio that multiple photos are) and set their prices? Because manually doing each photo for each available size, paper finish, canvas, thin wrap, metal print is annoying and time consuming. It would be nice to be able to make a preset for image ratio pricing, and just be able to apply that to a set of selected photos.

Like I said, it would be perfect to be able to do it site wide, but even the ability to be able to do it within one gallery would be nice.

Also, I don't know if SM has the ability to know what ratio the files are, but have the gallery prices set with all the normal 3:2 prices, but the 1:1, 1:2, etc... prices set as well and when you upload to a gallery, it applies the correct prices to the corresponding photos with matching ratios.

I only allow photos to be bought in sizes that does not require cropping. Because I shot and edited the photo that way I did for a reason, so I don't want them to choose a size that will limit what the print will show. A way to be able to completely disable cropping by the customer would be nice too, but that's a separate thread.

Thanks for the help.

Candid Arts

Ann McRae wrote:

You can set individual image pricing. Open the photo, then the pricing page. Click the word 'image' from the very top. You will want to use the 'apply this pricing' tool to set the prices for all items to $0 first, then overwrite that price for the relevant print sizes. Be sure to save.


ann

I know how to change a single image and it's pricing. But as you can see in the first post, I only allow prints to be bought that are the same ratios as the photos. so a square photo is only able to be bought in square prints, etc etc...

So say I have 650 pictures on my site in 20 galleries. 40 pictures are square in 7 galleries. It is a royal pain to go to every square photo, one by one, and set each price for 5x5, lustre, metallic, canvas, board, wrapped, metal, etc... So if there was a way to select either all 40 square photos on my site (ideal), or atleast all of them in one gallery, and apply a preset pricing for the "square photos". The same is to be said with 1x2 sized photos (10x20, 8x16, 12x24, etc...). 4:5 ratio photos, whatever they are. individual pricing get's really old when you have 100 photos of the same aspect ratio that need to all be changed to the same prices, yet is different from the standard 3:4 ratio photos in the rest of all the corresponding galleries.

Does this make sense as to what I'm looking for?

What I did for now, is create a gallery labeled "1:1 Ratio Pricing". Then put a 1:1 photo in it, priced it how I want all my 1:1 ratio photos priced, and made the gallery unlisted. This way, I can at least automate each image. But I still have to go to every image, use the apply settings from option, then select the "1:1 Ratio Pricing" gallery, apply to all products, apply, then save. Then on to the next square photo, and repeat the process, for every square photo, in every gallery. This way I at least don't have to type in every price for every product for every square photo, but just have to set every square photo to apply the settings from the gallery I made. I did the same for 1:2, 4:5, and 8.5:11 photos.

Basically the same thing you can do when you select multiple galleries to apply a common pricing too, but instead of with multiple galleries, using multiple photos...

AnneMcBean

Candid Arts wrote:

I know how to change a single image and it's pricing. But as you can see in the first post, I only allow prints to be bought that are the same ratios as the photos. so a square photo is only able to be bought in square prints, etc etc...

So say I have 650 pictures on my site in 20 galleries. 40 pictures are square in 7 galleries. It is a royal pain to go to every square photo, one by one, and set each price for 5x5, lustre, metallic, canvas, board, wrapped, metal, etc... So if there was a way to select either all 40 square photos on my site (ideal), or atleast all of them in one gallery, and apply a preset pricing for the "square photos". The same is to be said with 1x2 sized photos (10x20, 8x16, 12x24, etc...). 4:5 ratio photos, whatever they are. individual pricing get's really old when you have 100 photos of the same aspect ratio that need to all be changed to the same prices, yet is different from the standard 3:4 ratio photos in the rest of all the corresponding galleries.

Does this make sense as to what I'm looking for?

What I did for now, is create a gallery labeled "1:1 Ratio Pricing". Then put a 1:1 photo in it, priced it how I want all my 1:1 ratio photos priced, and made the gallery unlisted. This way, I can at least automate each image. But I still have to go to every image, use the apply settings from option, then select the "1:1 Ratio Pricing" gallery, apply to all products, apply, then save. Then on to the next square photo, and repeat the process, for every square photo, in every gallery. This way I at least don't have to type in every price for every product for every square photo, but just have to set every square photo to apply the settings from the gallery I made. I did the same for 1:2, 4:5, and 8.5:11 photos.

Basically the same thing you can do when you select multiple galleries to apply a common pricing too, but instead of with multiple galleries, using multiple photos...

Oh I hear you loud and clear. This is excellent feedback and would help everyone involved. Customers would be guided to appropriate sizes and pros wouldn't make their eyes bleed with individual image pricing.

This is definitely something we'll keep in mind when we make changes to the pricing tool. I'd love to see a "price list" that could be applied to certain images or to certain galleries.

But maybe a smaller change we could make sooner would be to be able to apply image pricing in bulk within a gallery. Perhaps displaying the ratio of an image underneath each thumbnail on that page would be a step in the right direction. Definitely something to think about. Thanks for raising this issue!

-Anne
SmugMug Support Hero

Candid Arts

AnneMcBean wrote:

Oh I hear you loud and clear. This is excellent feedback and would help everyone involved. Customers would be guided to appropriate sizes and pros wouldn't make their eyes bleed with individual image pricing.

This is definitely something we'll keep in mind when we make changes to the pricing tool. I'd love to see a "price list" that could be applied to certain images or to certain galleries.

But maybe a smaller change we could make sooner would be to be able to apply image pricing in bulk within a gallery. Perhaps displaying the ratio of an image underneath each thumbnail on that page would be a step in the right direction. Definitely something to think about. Thanks for raising this issue!

-Anne
SmugMug Support Hero

YES YES YES! This would be amazing!

You have moving multiple photos at a time. You have deleting multiple photos at a time. Even watermarking. Why not pricing?

What kind of time frame do you think something like this would be possible in?

I'm really surprised this hasn't been brought up before...

*AJ*

Anyone know if this has been completed yet????? I don't see anything posted anywhere saying it is, but I may have missed it too.

AJ
www.AJWittPhotography.com