Using Event Gallery in proof workflow?
gregger
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Hi there,
I was just wondering if anyone else was using the Event Gallery feature to help clients review their proofs prior to doing retouching / finishing work (and posting those results in a new gallery).
My typical scenarios are like this:
The 3 big issues here are:
Event galleries have no priority (either you like them, or you don't - and that can be OK).
Event galleries have one owner - multiple invites result in multiple galleries and there's no easy way to combine "votes" for pictures.
There isn't an easy way to create a correspondence between my hard drive's file names and the favorites in SmugMug Event Galleries.
One improvement I thought of (for use with a Windows Phone 7 SmugMug app) was to tag photos with a particular keyword (instead of using an Event Gallery). Then you use a Smart Gallery to find the selections.
You'd create 2 galleries: one for the proofs, and one Smart Gallery that looks at that gallery + a keyword like "Selected". Then that Smart Gallery always has the selections you make. If you have multiple people, you can combine them into a Smart Gallery.
That's a lot of work.
Anyhow, does anyone else do this?
Thanks,
TTFN
Gregg
I was just wondering if anyone else was using the Event Gallery feature to help clients review their proofs prior to doing retouching / finishing work (and posting those results in a new gallery).
My typical scenarios are like this:
- Take pictures
- Select the good ones and post them to a gallery
- Have the client pick their favorites
- Color correct the selections
- Possibly do another review, perhaps invite more people to review the gallery
- Select the final set
- Finish processing the photos
- Post for purchase / download
- Profit
The 3 big issues here are:
Event galleries have no priority (either you like them, or you don't - and that can be OK).
Event galleries have one owner - multiple invites result in multiple galleries and there's no easy way to combine "votes" for pictures.
There isn't an easy way to create a correspondence between my hard drive's file names and the favorites in SmugMug Event Galleries.
One improvement I thought of (for use with a Windows Phone 7 SmugMug app) was to tag photos with a particular keyword (instead of using an Event Gallery). Then you use a Smart Gallery to find the selections.
You'd create 2 galleries: one for the proofs, and one Smart Gallery that looks at that gallery + a keyword like "Selected". Then that Smart Gallery always has the selections you make. If you have multiple people, you can combine them into a Smart Gallery.
That's a lot of work.
Anyhow, does anyone else do this?
Thanks,
TTFN
Gregg
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