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Malte
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I just made a copy of a photo and moved it from one gallery to another. And I want to cry. There has to be something to be done on the UI for this.
You may be tempted to suggest that collecting the photo solves this but it doesn't as long as a collected photo adheres to the permissions of the source gallery.
Malte
You may be tempted to suggest that collecting the photo solves this but it doesn't as long as a collected photo adheres to the permissions of the source gallery.
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I understand you guys are using uservoice to track suggestions, but "copy to gallery" has been asked for forever and is as simple as can be. I'd recommend that every smugmug employee tries to copy a photo from one large gallery to another gallery to feel the pain. I bet "copy to gallery" would be added in about 5 minutes.
Dave
It has been requested on uservoice, and Andy has marked it as completed referring to virtual galleries.
http://smugmug.uservoice.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/230121-add-a-copy-to-gallery-feature?ref=title
Now if I had been able to assign different permissions, captions and keywords to the virtual instances of a file, that would be different.
Malte
Exactly. A situation that comes up regularly is wanting to give higher resolution or non-watermarked photos to one person. Collections and smart galleries don't do it. "Copy to gallery" could make this incredibly simple task incredibly simple. But the way things work right now, it's almost impossible... without becoming completely frustrated. Careful when you make a second copy of a photo and finally do try to move it... if you move the original instead of the copy (and you can't tell them apart), you'll permanently break any links to the original.
Dave
not exactly optimal, but faster then waiting for all thumbnails to populate in a big gallery before you copy one photo
In any case, I agree that make copy and move is quite a pain. Smugmug makes it about as difficult as possible. That's why I pretty much just upload again.
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I know, I do too. And that's what's really sad about it.
Malte
Yup, that's the only reasonable way I've been able to do it.
Dave
True, but it happened to me once like this...
Someone needed about 30 full resolution pictures for a poster. He sent me links to all the ones he wanted. What he sent were gallery links. I decided at first that I'd copy each one to a new gallery that allows original size. So I went to the first one, made a second copy. Then used the move to another gallery tool. Well, I was presented with ~200 thumbnails in that tool. Found the one I had duplicated and moved one of them to the new gallery. It was such a painful experienced I decided I wasn't going to be able to do it that way.
Later I clicked that first link again. It brought me to a picture I didn't remember seeing before. I wasn't sure why he wanted that picture. Then I realized it was just the first picture in the gallery. His link broke when I unknowingly moved the original instead of the copy. The link didn't completely "break," it just took me to the first picture in the gallery. Basically it just linked to another picture.
Anyway, even if they just made a single image tool for "move to another gallery" that moved the current image instead of opening a bulk tool, things would be somewhat better. I always find it annoying that the bulk tools don't automatically highlight the current picture when you enter the tool. I almost always want to apply whatever tool I chose to the image I'm looking at.
Dave
wanted the originals. I dragged the link from the email to the browser, picked
save in photobar, dragged d/l'ed photo from download folder to "upload" page.
This is the fastest method I've found so far.
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