Letting Clients Caption Photos?

mdraughn

I took some photos for an event for one of my clients and I've put them up in a gallery. I'd like to caption them, but I don't actually know most of the people in the photos, so what I'd like to do is give my client access to the gallery to do the captioning.

What makes this difficult is that (1) I don't trust my client quite enough to give them a guest password to the whole site, and (2) they don't have a smugmug account of their own.

Is there any way to do this?

Andy

mdraughn wrote:

Is there any way to do this?

Without using the guest password, no, there is not, I'm sorry.

richW

I ran into to this same problem with a family gallery. This was my work around.

Enable comments for the gallery.
Hide the gallery comments section. .gallery_xxxxxx #comment_header {visibility: hidden;}
This leaves only the picture comments section available.
Had the family members input their comments into the picture comments.
Copy and paste their comment to the caption, delete comment.

If you have email notifications of new comments, that even makes it easier.

BeachBill

richW wrote:

I ran into to this same problem with a family gallery. This was my work around.

Enable comments for the gallery.
Hide the gallery comments section. .gallery_xxxxxx #comment_header {visibility: hidden;}
This leaves only the picture comments section available.
Had the family members input their comments into the picture comments.
Copy and paste their comment to the caption, delete comment.

If you have email notifications of new comments, that even makes it easier.

I did exactly the same thing for my family reunion shots.

SteveM

That's similiar to what I've done, just suggested clients comment on each photo. It's workable, but clunky.

I have to say, I'd really like to see Smugmug come up with a more flexible Guest Password system, where access could be granted based on gallery or some such. For clients and even coworkers, I'm certainly not liberal enough to give them free reign, especially to account info and account settings and I believe last I checked, using the guest password, they had access enough to view/change everything.

Steve
http://www.downriverphotography.com