Collecting photos from other people?

Cygnus Studios

I viewing some other websites and I noticed that the "collect photo" came up.

Of course, I didn't collect the photo, but kind of surprised that this is even an option for someone who doesn't own that site or photo.

jfriend

It does seem a bit odd to me too. A site owner can prohibit external collecting in the control panel, but it is enabled by default.

It makes more sense that a viewer would be able to collect their favorites and view them themselves or share a list of favorites with friends, but not create a gallery out of them and share that gallery as if it was their own on their own site.

denisegoldberg

Seems very odd to me as well. The first thing I did when I saw that feature was to disallow collecting (by others).

--- Denise

Cygnus Studios

Seems like the default should be no so others don't miss this.

I looked in the control panel and found this:

Wait, who can grab my photos?

You might be tickled that someone wants to put one of your shots in their "Most Inspiring Photos" gallery. Conversely, you may want to ensure your daughter's birthday pics aren't up for grabs. Keep these guidelines in mind:
You can always collect your own photos, regardless of your gallery settings.
To allow others to collect from you, ALL of the following must be true:

• You have not disabled Allow Collecting in your Control Panel settings.
• The gallery has external linking turned on. (More on Security and Privacy settings)

All photos that are collected into other galleries will honor the settings from the original gallery. This means that if you've applied watermarks, custom pricing, limited the largest size, etc., these will apply to the photos no matter where they are displayed.
You can choose to collect images from your unlisted galleries, but we won't reveal the location in the caption field like we do for public photos. Your secret is safe with us.

rainforest1155

Collected photos from other sites get a proper credit below the photo with the link to the owner's site and the photo in their gallery.

Sebastian

agallia

Quick question: what happens if someone tries to collect a photo from a password protected gallery for their site (assuming they knew the password)?