Until digital downloads are available, can we have these changes?

technocraft

For those that want this feature (selling downloads of various sizes), you may know of a partial workaround involving adding paypal buttons to your gallery:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29055

At least that covers getting paid and identifying which image(s) the customer wants. But delivering the file isn't as easy as it could be.

I offer two options for downloads:
"web-size", the 800-px Large smugmg image (watermarked in the gallery and unwatermarked upon purchase)
"full-size", the Original smugmug image (copied to a password protected gallery upon purchase that has originals enabled)

In working this way, I've run into a few "damn that's annoying" things when fulfilling orders. These are the features I'd like to see implemented...

1) Watermark/UnWatermark Image as a single image option

Currently, you can only un/watermark by gallery. This means that when I need to unwatermark a single image, I have to load the entire gallery thumbs and find my image - the image that I have a direct URL for already... My digital download galleries are for events that typically have hundreds if not a thousand or more images.

2) Watermark/UnWatermark a single image via the API

This would allow smart software like StarExplorer or a script on another website accepting payment to "fulfill" the order.

3) Move Image as a single image option

When offering full-size images, I make a 2nd Copy of the image (which *is* a single image optioN) and then Move the image to a different gallery. But just like watermarking, you can only Move images using the entire gallery thumbnail view and it poses the same problems as #1, thus being far less efficient than it should be.

Andy

Thanks Tony, for the suggestions.

Hang in there.