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Smugmug-Forum Image Sharing Suggestions
patch29
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I took a quick trip to NH and took some photos at an ADVrider gathering, now at a friends house and I am writing up a ride report on dial up. I have come up with a few suggestions to make the photo sharing better or add some options.
Include a thumbnail with the sharing page so we can tell which photo we are linking to if we are using multiple windows/tabs.
Offer a bulk share feature. I envision it to contain the "message forums - inline images" part of the share feature. It could work by showing a slightly larger thumbnail (150 dpi long side?) on the left and image size/links on the right, using 2-3 inches per image. It could either display a set quantity per page or an entire gallery. I think it would make linking to images much easier and faster, the things that smugmug does best, it could do even better.
I suggest this from using the linking features from my galleries with many images and find that I feel I waste a lot of time going back and forth and searching through tabs, opening in new windows, etc. I could see how this would be intimidating to a noob and turn them away from using the service.
Include a thumbnail with the sharing page so we can tell which photo we are linking to if we are using multiple windows/tabs.
Offer a bulk share feature. I envision it to contain the "message forums - inline images" part of the share feature. It could work by showing a slightly larger thumbnail (150 dpi long side?) on the left and image size/links on the right, using 2-3 inches per image. It could either display a set quantity per page or an entire gallery. I think it would make linking to images much easier and faster, the things that smugmug does best, it could do even better.
I suggest this from using the linking features from my galleries with many images and find that I feel I waste a lot of time going back and forth and searching through tabs, opening in new windows, etc. I could see how this would be intimidating to a noob and turn them away from using the service.
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We'll see what we can do.
btw, we're just about to go live with quite a few new bulk tools like really easy bulk rotate.
Glad to help, hope it is easy enough to implement. It would be great to post ride reports much faster.
Thankfully almost all of my cameras currently auto-rotate. I don't miss those days of rotating. It should help a lot of users.
Glad I searched. Knew this idea had to have been proposed before. Just curious if the 'share multiple photos' link was ever put into existance anywhere. Posting multiple photos from a gallery to a forum thread is a slow process - having to flip back and forth between the gallery and the link page.
I hear that our engineers might be working on some new share features - stay tuned
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I upload full size digital files to my galleries. With some clients I want to be able to share images with them in a smaller file size so they may use in Facebook or on website. These are often events with 100+ images, so the smaller file size really helps the speed of downloads. Is there a process within SmugMug that I can provide a link to a gallery, but reduce the size of the image that is downloaded for my clients convenience?