Favorites

leebase

I shoot weddings and have a gallery for each wedding, and a favorites gallery.

Is their an easier way of getting a photo copied to the favorites? As of now I have to copy the photo, and them move the copy. This, of course, doubles the space used as well.

Lee

ivar

leebase wrote:

I shoot weddings and have a gallery for each wedding, and a favorites gallery.

Is their an easier way of getting a photo copied to the favorites? As of now I have to copy the photo, and them move the copy. This, of course, doubles the space used as well.

Lee

Hi Lee,

Copying the photo, and then moving it to your favorites gallery is the only way i see, besides uploading a second copy. I wish i had a better answer for you. Did you have anything specific in mind? And you don't have to worry about the space, it's unlimited!

dmc

ivar wrote:

Hi Lee,

Copying the photo, and then moving it to your favorites gallery is the only way i see, besides uploading a second copy. I wish i had a better answer for you. Did you have anything specific in mind? And you don't have to worry about the space, it's unlimited!

check out this thread.... you need to be a power user at least. Creates a featured "gallery" made from a keyword url....

leebase

ivar wrote:

Did you have anything specific in mind? And you don't have to worry about the space, it's unlimited!

Space is unlimited -- which I appreciate. But I don't see a reason to abuse this generosity. $150/yr and I already have 28gig of photos online?

As for "anything specific in mind"....

1. Photo "lives" in one place.
2. Photo can be "organized" into more than one place
3. Ability to categorize/tag individual photos and then display/search based on those categories.

Lee

leebase

dmc wrote:

check out this thread.... you need to be a power user at least. Creates a featured "gallery" made from a keyword url....

More work than I'd have liked, but thanks for letting me know it can be done.

Lee

jfriend

Upload dups, use keywords in Bridge

leebase wrote:

More work than I'd have liked, but thanks for letting me know it can be done.

Lee

I use keywords in Adobe Bridge, then use a Bridge seach on the keywords to isolate photos on one particular keyword, then upload a separate copy to the favorites gallery. I can't use the Smugmug keyword option because my galleries have to be password protected and the keyword searches don't work in password protected galleries. So, I'm forced to just upload duplicates.

cjyphoto

Why is there not an option to "copy to gallery" along with "move to gallery?" Zenfolio has "collections" which can be named "my favorites" and you can quickly go through your gallery and add them to your "my favorites" collection. It then puts a copy in your collection. Quick and easy. Although "copy to gallery" seems like it would work just as well. Is there a reason this is not doable?

sit

I'll second that request for 'copy to gallery' which would unify the current duplicate/move two-step. (Are me too's frowned upon?)

darryl

Feature Request - Copy To Album
An oldie, but a goodie. (Running up against this problem because I've got to copy a bunch of photos out of a bunch of albums to a single one. Creating Duplicates and Moving is annoying me.)

And oh look, a few other people have requested this too:

http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=343790&postcount=380
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=808818&postcount=47
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=477383#post477383
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=890181&postcount=31
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=931469&postcount=144

Feh, I'm tired of cutting and pasting links. Just look at this Google search:

site: dgrin.com "copy to album"

Yes Andy, I understand there's an issue with the cost of disk space, and that you'd prefer that people not do a lot of bulk copying.

But look at it from our POV. We've been requesting a "Copy To Album" function (ideally bulk) for at least 2 years now, and since SmugMug hasn't taken that time to implement virtual galleries or aliases of some kind (wherein you'd only have to store one copy of an image and link to it), it seems a bit disingenuous to excuse this inconvenience for users as a means to protect your Amazon S3 bill.

cjyphoto

I don't see how they are saving a dime by not implementing virtual galleries. I've simply decided to upload full resolution images to different galleries if I have to. Seems a bit of a waste but that is what SmugMug wants us to do.

darryl

Uber-Thread for "Copy To Gallery" / "Virtual Gallery" Feature Request:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=110537