Blog it, clicking back to smugmug

CMAldridgeCMAldridge Registered Users Posts: 38 Big grins
edited July 20, 2012 in SmugMug Pro Sales Support
I believe it's good practice to make your pictures clickable back to the smugmug site from a blog. But, it's also good practice to watermark your galleries. if you like a blog photo to a gallery with watermarking, of course the blog picture is watermarked. Since you are showing off on the blog, you have to assume a risk of showing the best quality of a few select pictures, not watermarked all over. Watermarking can only be set for gallery options.

I've setup an unlisted blogging folder that I copy pictures to, but that would not link back to the gallery with the featured photo so individuals could browse and possibly purchase other pictures in that set.

Any ideas on a better way? One thought I had was instead of linking back to the picture on smug, to link either to my smug site, or perhaps a gallery link to the photo I featured.

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  • denisegoldbergdenisegoldberg Administrators Posts: 14,359 moderator
    edited July 20, 2012
    If you have the photo in two galleries - one for the purpose of displaying a non-watermarked photo in your blog and one with the watermarked version of the photo, you could construct the HTML yourself. You will need a combination of an <a href= statement pointing to the photo in the watermarked gallery and an <img src= statement pointing at the photo in the unlisted gallery without a watermark.

    --- Denise
  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2012
    CMAldridge wrote: »
    I believe it's good practice to make your pictures clickable back to the smugmug site from a blog. But, it's also good practice to watermark your galleries. if you like a blog photo to a gallery with watermarking, of course the blog picture is watermarked. Since you are showing off on the blog, you have to assume a risk of showing the best quality of a few select pictures, not watermarked all over. Watermarking can only be set for gallery options.

    I've setup an unlisted blogging folder that I copy pictures to, but that would not link back to the gallery with the featured photo so individuals could browse and possibly purchase other pictures in that set.

    Any ideas on a better way? One thought I had was instead of linking back to the picture on smug, to link either to my smug site, or perhaps a gallery link to the photo I featured.
    For the blog use a link like this. The img src is what's showing on the page and the href opens it in
    a new window at what ever larger size you want. See my blog in siggy for it in action.

    [HTML]<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/photos/XXXXXXXXX_xxxxxxxx-XL.jpg&quot; target="_blank">
    <img src="http://www.yoursite.com/photos/XXXXXXXXX_xxxxxxxx-Th.jpg&quot; alt="" title="" /></a>[/HTML]
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
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