Same photos, different settings?

JFord

I shoot many events at the same venue, and I always have to upload two, and often, three sets of the exact same photos:

A public gallery, protection enabled, no password, where event attendees can view the photos and (hopefully!) purchase prints and downloads.

A password-protected gallery, protection disabled, where my client (the venue) can view and download photos for their marketing purposes.

Another password-protected gallery with a differenct password for the event organizer or host.

Not only is it time-consuming to upload several hundred of the same full-resolution photos three times, I hate that I'm using three times the server space that I should need.

This would be simple if Smart Galleries could have their own settings instead of always inheriting the settings of the original gallery.

Is there a way to have three galleries, each with their own settings, accessing the same set of photos?

Thanks!

HeroOfCanton

Unfortunately, we don't have a way of duplicating the images to separate galleries with different settings on each gallery. It would seem, however, that to save you time, you don't need to upload full resolution files each time. Figure out the largest size you want to sell, upload that resolution which will save on file size and then enable proof delay and only replace the ones that your clients purchase will the full size images. For example, a full HD image (1920x1280) is the minimum for 20x30 sized images and that is only 2.5MP, far less than what comes out of your camera which should correspond to a drop in file size, which is what determines the upload time. You can read more on proof delay here.

With best regards,
Ryan W.