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SmugMug Feature Requests #4

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    AnneMcBeanAnneMcBean Registered Users Posts: 503 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2006
    olegos wrote:
    Hello,

    4. The "make 2nd copy" feature is... well, strange. My guess is that most of the time it's used to copy photos into another gallery (partly because there are no virtual galleries). So why isn't the interface similar to moving, where you can select multiple photos and a target gallery? In addition to having to go through a cumbersome process, there is a period of time when visitors see duplicates in the original gallery.


    Actually, that's only one use of this feature. People like it because it lets them play with cropping and color effects without touching the original image.

    A note on virtual galleries: I know quite a few SmugMuggers have done this using keywords, though this wouldn't work on your private galleries.
    It might be something to look into for you public galleries, however. There's a thread on that somewhere around here... though I can't put my finger on it at the moment headscratch.gif .

    -Anne
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    AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,011 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Photo/Gallery Comments
    I get a few comments under "Gallery comments" that are obviously directed
    at an individual photo.

    I would like to see the photo comments removed from below the photo
    and added at the bottom next to the gallery comment along with a view
    comments link.

    view comments "gallery comments" add comment "comment on this photo" add comment

    Another suggestion is to combine the gallery/photo comments together in
    one listing and if a photo comment, display a tiny/thumbnail of the photo
    commenting on with the comment.

    Just some random thoughts,
    Al
    Al - Just a volunteer here having fun
    My Website index | My Blog
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    wetbarnwetbarn Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    Request - File Names Displayed in Cart
    It would be very helpful to have an option to display file names of images in a customer's cart.

    I recently had occasion to make a gallery of pre-cropped images for a customer who had a bit of trouble with the crop feature. I uploaded multiple crops of multiple images into a new gallery and the images were named: 01_4x6.jpg, 01_8x10.jpg, 01_5x7, etc.

    The customer needed varying quantities of each crop.

    Ideally, the customer could have placed all the cropped images into the cart and simply updated quantities (quantity 4 of image 01_5x7.jpg in a 01_5x7.jpg crop). In reality, I spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone helping the customer place the order, as the cart does not show file names and all the cropped images appear nearly identical, except for the red crop marks.

    An image in the cart may be selected and its file name viewed in the gallery, but while doing this, the customer accidentally reset the entire cart to default quantity = 1. The customer took it well and even laughed a little. I cried.

    Thank you for your consideration of this request.

    wetbarn
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    3rdPlanetPhotography3rdPlanetPhotography Banned Posts: 920 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2006
    Control Panel Sales
    I would like to see an addition to the control panel where the pro sales are located.

    Currently we see this calculation
    profit to date (est.):

    I would also like to see the Unpaid balance in the control panel.

    :ivar
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    3rdPlanetPhotography3rdPlanetPhotography Banned Posts: 920 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Payout
    It would be nice to have a PayOut button in the Pro sales to let smugmug now we'd like to be added to the next check payout cycle versus having to send an email. Then the "Not Paid" status should be changed to "Pending" until the check is cut.

    This would be a very nice feature

    Heck make it a slot machine and we can pull the handle. Winner every time!

    Thanks Smugmug
    Scott
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    renstarrenstar Registered Users Posts: 167 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    Bug and/or Request
    I'm not sure if this should qualify under a bug or a feature request, so it gets its own thread unless a mod can make that decision for me. PSE 5 has a new map feature which allows you to drop photo's on a yahoo map and it generates GPS coordinates for them. Unfortunately, due to a bug or a design decision, it does not write this info into the EXIF directly, and thus, smugmug does not read it and does not place it on maps.

    Since smugmug has the integration with PSE 5, it would be nice if smugmug would read the part of the XMP metadata where PSE 5 writes the gps coordinates and would use that instead, since there is currently no way to coax PSE 5 to do things the smart and extensible (and standardized) way. (Or better yet, if anyone knows of a plugin that makes PSE do it the correct way to begin with, that would be great. I'd write one but im not paying 200 bucks for the SDK.)

    Hence, it is a bug in that the data is there and smugmug doesnt read it, but it isnt a bug because the data is non-standard and i request smugmug try to read the non-standard data. A cursory explanation of the problem is here: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc1ddf9


    Thanks,
    -r
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    renstar wrote:

    Hence, it is a bug in that the data is there and smugmug doesnt read it, but it isnt a bug because the data is non-standard and i request smugmug try to read the non-standard data. A cursory explanation of the problem is here: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc1ddf9


    Thanks,
    -r
    Actually, bugs are when stuff is supposed to work a certain way, and doesn't. This was never a feature built into our PSE5 uploader so it can't be a bug.

    That said, I'll be sure that our team sees this! Moving to the features request thread. Thanks for taking the time to post this! thumb.gif
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 5, 2006
    kc7dji wrote:
    I would like to see an addition to the control panel where the pro sales are located.

    Currently we see this calculation
    profit to date (est.):

    I would also like to see the Unpaid balance in the control panel.

    :ivar
    kc7dji wrote:
    It would be nice to have a PayOut button in the Pro sales to let smugmug now we'd like to be added to the next check payout cycle versus having to send an email. Then the "Not Paid" status should be changed to "Pending" until the check is cut.

    This would be a very nice feature

    Heck make it a slot machine and we can pull the handle. Winner every time!

    Thanks Smugmug
    Scott
    Thanks for the feature requests, Scott!
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    DifferentSeedDifferentSeed Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited October 7, 2006
    Customizing gallery URLs
    Hi,

    I don't know if this has been mentioned and addressed already... I skimmed the thread, but 16 pages... yowza!... Anyway, the request...

    Would it be possible to have customized gallery URLs. So rather than:

    username.smugmug.com/gallery/23434564

    it could be configured to use something specific, like:

    username.smugmug.com/my-pictures-of-cats

    or

    username.smugmug.com/mybest

    ?

    Just a thought, I'd love to be able to give out direct urls for topics to family members (especially those who fear the Internet and type in urls manually). thumb.gif

    - Kim
    Make a small loan, Make a big difference. Find out how at http://www.kiva.org
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    KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    One galley, multiple communities
    Is there any plan to in allowing us to be able to place a gallery in more than one community?

    If not, I would like to request this. Thanks.
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    SteveMSteveM Registered Users Posts: 482 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    Hi,

    I don't know if this has been mentioned and addressed already... I skimmed the thread, but 16 pages... yowza!... Anyway, the request...

    Would it be possible to have customized gallery URLs. So rather than:

    username.smugmug.com/gallery/23434564

    it could be configured to use something specific, like:

    username.smugmug.com/my-pictures-of-cats

    or

    username.smugmug.com/mybest

    ?

    Just a thought, I'd love to be able to give out direct urls for topics to family members (especially those who fear the Internet and type in urls manually). thumb.gif

    - Kim

    Have a look at Andy's Customization FAQ: Item #92

    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26043

    Hope this helps!
    Steve Mills
    BizDev Account Manager
    Image Specialist & Pro Concierge

    http://www.downriverphotography.com
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    DifferentSeedDifferentSeed Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    Awesome, I will give this a whirl. Thanks!!! :D
    Make a small loan, Make a big difference. Find out how at http://www.kiva.org
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    Khaos wrote:
    Is there any plan to in allowing us to be able to place a gallery in more than one community?

    If not, I would like to request this. Thanks.
    Thanks for the FR, Khaos!
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    ErikmateyErikmatey Registered Users Posts: 29 Big grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    New Feature Request? -DVDs
    I may have missed this one, but I don't think so. I know that we are able to order a back-up of our orders (CD's start at 11.99 etc) But is there a way for us to offer an entire gallery on CD/DVD. I for one, know that there are people out there that may rather spend a little more on EVERY picture on a DVD, then they would for 18 prints. Now obviously it would have to be priced pretty well, But I think that this would open up an area for some people to make even more money.

    I know there will be people who say that they want complete control of where their images are printed... this option may not be for them. I think the user that would benefit from this may be the shooter that includes a DVD, already, for the contract signing client (ie wedding couple). Then later the guests/family/friends would have to the option to either buy prints, a DVD or both if they cared to.

    Sorry for the long post.

    Erik
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    Erikmatey wrote:
    I may have missed this one, but I don't think so. I know that we are able to order a back-up of our orders (CD's start at 11.99 etc) But is there a way for us to offer an entire gallery on CD/DVD. I for one, know that there are people out there that may rather spend a little more on EVERY picture on a DVD, then they would for 18 prints. Now obviously it would have to be priced pretty well, But I think that this would open up an area for some people to make even more money.

    I know there will be people who say that they want complete control of where their images are printed... this option may not be for them. I think the user that would benefit from this may be the shooter that includes a DVD, already, for the contract signing client (ie wedding couple). Then later the guests/family/friends would have to the option to either buy prints, a DVD or both if they cared to.

    Sorry for the long post.

    Erik
    Hi Erik, thanks for the feature request!
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    pmalandpmaland Registered Users Posts: 72 Big grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    Queue length report
    Just thought I'd get it into the official request thread. Since this keeps coming up, could you please give us a web page with insight into how large the current processing queue is, so when there's a delay like today, we know what to expect? Thanks.

    - Phil
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    sirsloopsirsloop Registered Users Posts: 866 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    thumb.gifthumb.gif Two thumbs up for the latest proof update with crop/color type.

    Here's a small one that will make us a little less crazy.

    When you go to replace a photo, you are brought to the window with the browse button. You have the thumbnail there so you know which photo you are replacing. Can you also add the file name next to the thumbnail?

    I gather up all of the photos I need to look at, edit all of them, and upload them all at once. When I go to browse, I gotta remember which photo I need to replace next, and if I have like 20 to do it can get a little hairy. Much easier to match up file names on the actual replace window!

    ..no problems with the replace feature since the update... crosses fingers thumb.gif
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    sirsloopsirsloop Registered Users Posts: 866 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    also, do you think that image number can be included in the CSV file for the sales information?

    Thanks!! clap.gif
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    profuriousprofurious Registered Users Posts: 53 Big grins
    edited October 11, 2006
    I hope Andy can put a good word in to change this
    So, Andy, here is my problem. I have a lot of images that are on my site, and a heck of a lot more to come. I need these images to be secure and therefore have a password to each gallery. From what i can gather you are not able to search using keywords unless the gallery is public and without a password. If this is true, that realy sucks, and i hope in the future the images would be searchable but not be able to be opened unless you have the password.

    http://proamimages.smugmug.com/
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2006
    profurious wrote:
    So, Andy, here is my problem. I have a lot of images that are on my site, and a heck of a lot more to come. I need these images to be secure and therefore have a password to each gallery. From what i can gather you are not able to search using keywords unless the gallery is public and without a password. If this is true, that realy sucks, and i hope in the future the images would be searchable but not be able to be opened unless you have the password.

    http://proamimages.smugmug.com/

    It's been asked, and if there were a way to have this, Onethumb, our CEO and Chief Geek, would do it. Stay tuned, and thanks for the feature request.
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    Rene`Rene` Registered Users Posts: 207 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2006
    Filename in shopping cart! Please
    I just ordered over 60 prints...filenames in the shopping cart would hve been great.

    Rene`

    Andy wrote:
    Please put your feature requests in this thread.

    Occasionally we will move a thread, or posts from a thread, to here, for the sake of having everything in one place. Thanks in advance for your input and telling us like it is!

    Here are the prior three FR Threads, for reference:
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29858
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=23482
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=1349

    From the prior feature thread, FRs that have been added to the site:


    From the prior feature thread, FRs that have been made:
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    Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2006
    This half pertains to smugmug and half to another service. I noticed that www.feedburner.com has an easy way to integrate your flikr, buzznet, or webshots photo feed into anothe website. It'd be super great if smugmuggers could get a little of that action. mwink.gif
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
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    EZRyderEZRyder Registered Users Posts: 62 Big grins
    edited October 12, 2006
    FR for a "detail image" - 100% crop...
    I'm new here and will post an Intro shortly, but I wanted to put this out there reagrding a feature request that I think is important - and surprised not to see it here.

    I'd like there to be a way to show something akin to a 100% crop of a small portion of the picture to show the sharpness and/or detail of the picture. Resizing and jpeg compression can take the zing out of a lot of pictures by blurring fine detail, and that might just be the selling point!!

    If there's a way to do this that makes sense, please let me know how. Ideally, I'd love to have a mouse_over kind of thing thaqt gives you a non-static pop-up of a postage-stamp sized crop while you're hovering over a picture, and have it go away when you move the mouse off the picture.

    Thanks for any help/feedback!

    Eric
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2006
    EZRyder wrote:
    I'm new here and will post an Intro shortly, but I wanted to put this out there reagrding a feature request that I think is important - and surprised not to see it here.

    I'd like there to be a way to show something akin to a 100% crop of a small portion of the picture to show the sharpness and/or detail of the picture. Resizing and jpeg compression can take the zing out of a lot of pictures by blurring fine detail, and that might just be the selling point!!

    If there's a way to do this that makes sense, please let me know how. Ideally, I'd love to have a mouse_over kind of thing thaqt gives you a non-static pop-up of a postage-stamp sized crop while you're hovering over a picture, and have it go away when you move the mouse off the picture.

    Thanks for any help/feedback!

    Eric
    Hi Eric,


    Hi Eric, what about "critique" style? Here's an example. Use the "smugloupe" which on my customized site is called "Get a Closer Look"

    http://www.moonriverphotography.com/gallery/1782861


    http://www.smugmug.com/help/smugloupe

    wave.gif
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    videooppvideoopp Registered Users Posts: 103 Big grins
    edited October 12, 2006
    Discount or pass codes at checkout
    For my digital download, stock image site, I have a couple of clients that would like to be able to pay an annual fee and then have free reign at my site to download whatever they like without having to fuss with credit cards everytime they need an image.

    Have annual subscriptions been given any thought for those of us using SM as a Stock Image site? I recognize that there may not be a lot of incentive for SM to add this feature, as it would mean that they are bypassed on the 15% take, but at the same time they do allow anyone to set all of their images for Original Download.

    I for one would be happy to submit copies of Annual license agreements and pay SM 15% of the contracted amount, just to be able to offer this convenience to my clients. For that matter the Annual license could be set up as a item of purchase at Smugmug at which they would automatically get their 15%.

    I think that it could be set up without too much effort.

    Any thoughts? What say you?
    Frank Spangler
    Business: www.panopro.com
    Stock Images: www.worldviewimages.com (Smugmug Site)
    Stock Video: https://www.pond5.com/artist/videoopp
    Blog: www.untotheleast.com
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2006
    videoopp wrote:
    For my digital download, stock image site, I have a couple of clients that would like to be able to pay an annual fee and then have free reign at my site to download whatever they like without having to fuss with credit cards everytime they need an image.

    Have annual subscriptions been given any thought for those of us using SM as a Stock Image site? I recognize that there may not be a lot of incentive for SM to add this feature, as it would mean that they are bypassed on the 15% take, but at the same time they do allow anyone to set all of their images for Original Download.

    I for one would be happy to submit copies of Annual license agreements and pay SM 15% of the contracted amount, just to be able to offer this convenience to my clients. For that matter the Annual license could be set up as a item of purchase at Smugmug at which they would automatically get their 15%.

    I think that it could be set up without too much effort.

    Any thoughts? What say you?
    Thanks for the feature request, Frank!
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    savannahgasavannahga Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited October 13, 2006
    Smugmug needs a setup like this, to be able to see prices before adding them to cart! http://www.savannahimagery.com/p/fountain/dsc_000456
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    photogmommaphotogmomma Registered Users Posts: 1,644 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    I am using Smugmug (Pro version) for posting online galleries of weddings I shoot. I usually create a new subcategory (under my wedding category) for each wedding I shoot and then add 5-10 galleries covering different parts of the wedding (e.g. The Ceremony, The Bride & Groom, Dinner & Dancing, etc). To maintain my client's privacy I make all of these galleries private and then create a sharegroup containing the galleries. I then email the link for the sharegroup to the client and any of the wedding guests who sign up to receive the link at the wedding.

    This is working ok, but not great. When a viewer finishes with one gallery, they have to go all the way back to the sharegroup or click on the original link to the sharegroup since they can't just go up one level (since the galleries are all private, they won't show up).

    I understand a lot of users love the sharing aspect of SmugMug, but as a Pro user I do not feel it is right for me to post the images of my clients to websites where anyone could stumble across them through a keyword search on Google. I make almost all of my galleries private for this reason and don't caption my images because I am paranoid the captions would be picked up by a search service (even though the galleries are private). I think it would be great if SmugMug came up with a way to "turn off" the usual SmugMug sharing features for pro users so we can focus on serving our clients and not worry about privacy concerns. I know I saw some discussion on this topic a while back and appreciate that there is only so much SmugMug can do to keep things private when they are posted on a publicly accessible internet site. Even with my current system, someone can still stumble across my galleries by just looking through smugmug gallery numbers, but at least it requires some effort and there is no easy way to search the private galleries.

    If there is no way to really do what I am looking for above, then I would welcome some incremental improvements to better organize sharegroups or create a similar feature to simplify the viewing experience for my clients' private galleries. Or maybe I am missing a better way of doing this within SmugMug's current capabilities?

    Also, the slideshow feature is very nice when it works, but I have had several clients complain about the speed of the slideshow - images display at inconsistent intervals and sometimes appear to be stuck. This may be due in part to slow internet connections on their end, but I have had trouble with this from time to time with my high-speed cable modem connection. I request better slideshow functionality - maybe a little smaller size to speed the loading time with a crossfade between images? The Shutterfly slideshow function has these features and looks very nice to me. Anything to make the slideshow more aesthetically pleasing and faster to load would be great!

    Thanks for continuing to improve this service - the new backprinting option and custom watermark abilities are great!

    I agree, but wanted to share what I did that seems to be working well. It's a PITA to set up, but the client seems to like it: http://www.tippiepics.com/trimblewedding. It's basically an HTML only page with a bunch of buttons that go to the different galleries I'm allowing them to see/order from. (I did the same for the bride/groom, but have a few other private links for them like downloads and getting ready photos that aren't appropriate for all to see.) Each gallery then has a link back to this gallery with the buttons. MUCH easier for them to navigate!

    (I did this a while ago and would now turn off the additional gallery browsing options at the top of the page. Not worth it now since it's an "old" wedding.)

    HTH!

    Oh, but I want to second that we need to have private CATEGORIES or SUB-CATEGORIES with the users able to see all the galleries under it - unless they are marked private, too. So the only way someone can get to the sub-category is if they are given the URL, but once there, they see all the underlying (non-private) galleries.
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    photogmommaphotogmomma Registered Users Posts: 1,644 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    A few feature requests that have hopefully not be said before! (Or if they have, consider them even more important to include since I'm adding them... :D )
    • Pro - see when a check was issued - right now I see either paid/not paid and I'd like to see when the check was sent to know it's on its way.
    • Pro - see how much is outstanding to be paid without having to add up orders by downloading
    • Pro/Power - or at least Pro - LARGER video size in MB as well as the previously requested more options for video types. I would like to be able to upload longer videos.
    • Pro - matrix-type interface for pricing so I can create a "set" of prices and apply that set to different galleries. Then I can change that set and all the appropriate gallery prices update. Because I have different sets of pricing, I can't just set it with Portfolio pricing. And when I change my pricing for one set currently, I have to make sure I grab all the right galleries to reprice - and hope I didn't miss one. I would also love to be able to select that pricing set from "customize gallery" instead of having to go into the pricing page. Then I can set up a quick setting for my galleries and have a certain pricing set be applied, too. And then if I need to make any overrides, I can just go into the current way to set pricing. Wow. Does all that make sense?
    • Pro - digital downloads in smaller sizes - 640x480, for example - or somethign similar. (I know this has probably been requested, but wanted to restate it.)
    Thanks so much!
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 14, 2006
    Hi Andi, thanks for the FRs!
    • Pro - see when a check was issued - right now I see either paid/not paid and I'd like to see when the check was sent to know it's on its way.
    OK but for now, you know that if you have $500 or more in a month, the check will go out usually by the 8th of the following month. More than $200 and less than $500? Quarterly, by the 8th of the month following the end of the Quarter - (Apr, July, October, January). You may also request a check anytime, and it'll be sent the first week of the following month - all the details here:
    http://www.smugmug.com/help/reporting
    [*]Pro - digital downloads in smaller sizes - 640x480, for example - or somethign similar. (I know this has probably been requested, but wanted to restate it.)Thanks so much!
    you can do this now, just call your 640x 480 the Original (yeah, requires separate gallery.. I'm just sayin' :D )
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