SmugMug Feature Requests #3

Andy · November 17, 2006

Previous thread here.

Older threads here:
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

Some of the requests:

Add stamps and other cool new products
Add photobooks, cards, yeah
Add panorama prints
Beef up the stats page, make it more friendly and readable
Add packages for pros
Add coupons, discounts for pros
Opt out of SmugMug Search, /browse, etc. but still leave site/photos public
Improve the move gallery tool
Right click protection "OFF" for owner
Specify a default starting gallery style for a gallery
Improve the Smuggy uploader
Add SMUGYEARTAKEN to backprinting
Pro sales summary info - "pending payment" subtotals
Virtual Galleries and/or smart albums
Make photo & gallery comments easier to leave / submit
User-created licenses for Dig Downloads
Filenames in the shopping cart
Filename on the "replace photo page"

New Requests in this thread

A directory of SmugMug Pro Sites

mkress65 · November 18, 2006

DMC's list
I'll add this link to DMC's "What do you Hope SmugMug is working on" thread. I'm sure it duplicates some of what Andy's already listed as well as what's in the other FR threads, but I like it as a nice synopsis of some of the more prevalent feature requests.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=41663

raptorcaptor · November 20, 2006

Just a thought! How about a smugmug directory listing for pro sites! I think that would help push sales, and make the sites more visible.

perrotta · November 27, 2006

Some Feature Suggestions
- Ability to add comments to a Category, just like you can do to a Gallery. Ability to display an empty category. These two features together will allow you to create fully customized web pages with the simple URL of http://domain/category
- Ability to print to MPIX (the best service out there, IMHO)
- Ability to specify to what gallery an emailed photo goes to
- Solve problem where, in a password-protected web site, the link to a specific category or gallery does not take you to that categoy or gallery after the user enters the site password. Instead, the user is taken to the home page.
- Make WebDAV bi-directional

Thanks!

CavalierPhoto · November 28, 2006

Gallery Stats
To add to the "Beef up the stats page..." it would be nice to have the gallery links currently available on the stats page go directly into the gallery stats.

Thanks guys and keep up the great work!

encosion · November 28, 2006

"Virtual Galleries and/or smart albums"
I'm hoping that this request is to help owners create new galleries based on stuff that has already been uploaded? I have a few favorite subjects / photo-types which I'm repeatedly taking pictures of on my travels... It would be really handy to say create a virtual gallery called "Sunsets", and then assign multiple pictures from multiple galleries to this new virtual gallery... The only way to do this at the moment, requires re-uploading all the sunset pics into a new gallery... So yeah, this is a bit like shortcuts / aliases on PCs and MACs...

Better bulk gallery management
I guess it depends on how organised you are / want to be... But the more I use the site, the more i want to standardise the galleries, move them around, set passwords, descriptions, etc... The point is this: The bulk setting for "customising" the galleries is a nice feature, BUT I'd rather choose which features get applied to the galleries I select... For example, I want to password protect a whole bunch of galleries without losing all the description and keyword settings for each individual gallery... Or perhaps I'd like to turn the "clean" display setting ON for all the galleries, but don't want to lose any of the other specific settings per gallery like passwords, descriptions, etc...

Category descriptions
Like perrotta, I'd like to be able to add a description at the category level... I know this should be self explanetory, but I think it'd really help to diversify the way people use the site, giving them more flexibility...

Personally, I turn hide the gallery browsing, and add my own HTML code / links to the galleries in the BIO section on the home page... Yes, I'm a STANDARD user!

That's about all I can think of for now... I'm often wishing that things could be more flexible so I'll start posting requests here as I encounter them!

encosion · November 28, 2006

Here's another one:

Chopping up the support forums...
...help docs / wiki / etc into Standard, Power and Pro, it'll save everybody a lot of time and frustration when searching for support if they don't have to sift through stuff which isn't relevant to them!

ghealy · November 28, 2006

Two items that would really be appreciated:

1. Calendars.
Would really like to be able to order a 12 month calendar using photos from my site.

2. Stats.
Would really like to be able to sort or have sorted the galleries in the stats listing. I can have one gallery with 27 hits show up before one with 1800 hits. It would be nice to be able to sort by number of hits, amount of bandwidth. Most large images, most original.

Thanks for considering.

Elysium · November 28, 2006

I'd like to see a "display crop" much like the ability to zoom thumbnails. Instead of cropping down in photoshop and potentially limiting the viability of different print sizes, you could "crop" it on smugmug. This non-destructive "crop" would only exist in that it shows you a zoomed in portion photo, like a tight 2x3 crop, the non cropped file would still exist when added to the cart so someone could get an 8x10 off the original size file.

This functionality can sort of be replicated with proof-delay, you can upload 2x3 files and then replace them with 8x10s later, but proof-delay has plenty of flaws. Since I *want* the file to display at 2x3, if I proof delay and replace with an 8x10, I then have to re-replace it with the 2x3 so it displays properly (and re-zoom the thumbnail) and then RE-replace it with an 8x10 if a customer wants another one, a significant hassle. Alternatively I could just upload a non-cropped file in the first place, but that would prevent me from displaying the image the way I want people to view it.

DKwan · November 30, 2006

Search engine description
Would like a way to have Google/Yahoo search results show site content rather than "[SIZE=-1]The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print."[/SIZE]

encosion · November 30, 2006

Password protecting / hiding individual images in a gallery
You can currently password protect whole galleries, but not individual files... At the moment I have to move these images out of the gallery into a separate hidden one... So not ideal when you've got loads galleries already! Someone else mentioned the opposite of this problem, but it's basically the same thing - He / she wants to upload ALL thier photos to smugmug, but only display certain photos publicly...

Andy · November 30, 2006

encosion wrote:

Chopping up the support forums...

We do this now.

Andy · November 30, 2006

DKwan wrote:

Would like a way to have Google/Yahoo search results show site content rather than "[SIZE=-1]The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print."[/SIZE]

Thanks, it's been asked, and it's not likely to change, sorry. I wish I had a better answer for you!

encosion · November 30, 2006

Andy wrote:

We do this now.

Really? Currently we have "SmugMug Support"... I would've imagined that it'd be broken up into "SmugMug STANDARD Support", "SmugMug POWER Support" and "SmugMug PRO Support"... This would go a long way to cutting out the noise associated with trawling through some of these threads...

Andy · November 30, 2006

encosion wrote:

Really?

Mind if I ask a favor? Don't use the colors or fonts please. I cannot read your posts without changing the colors (I use the "test style" which is grey.

Andy · November 30, 2006

encosion wrote:

Really? Currently we have "SmugMug Support"... I would've imagined that it'd be broken up into "SmugMug STANDARD Support", "SmugMug POWER Support" and "SmugMug PRO Support"... This would go a long way to cutting out the noise associated with trawling through some of these threads...

We have SmugMug Pro Sales Support for pros. SmugMug Support for general stuff that applies to all. We have SmugMug Customization which applies to Power and Pro. Dunno

how we can delineate further

encosion · November 30, 2006

Andy wrote:

We have SmugMug Pro Sales Support for pros. SmugMug Support for general stuff that applies to all. We have SmugMug Customization which applies to Power and Pro. Dunno how we can delineate further

Hmmm... I guess... How about amending the strapline to each forum's description... Something along the lines of:

SmugMug Support
Problems? Suggestions?

SmugMug Pro Sales Support
Show Me The Money! (Pro Users Only)

SmugMug Customization
Be different or be damned. (Power and Pro Users Only)

Andy wrote:

Mind if I ask a favor? Don't use the colors or fonts please. I cannot read your posts without changing the colors (I use the "test style" which is grey.

Sure... I'm using the default too by the way... Perhaps you should check the calibration on your monitor? I'm on a pretty decent Apple 20" Cinema Display though, so perhaps I can see a lot more contrast in shades than you...

Andy · November 30, 2006

encosion wrote:

Sure... I'm using the default too by the way... Perhaps you should check the calibration on your monitor? I'm on a pretty decent Apple 20" Cinema Display though, so perhaps I can see a lot more contrast in shades than you...
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:nono I didn't say "Default" I said "Test" here's what it looks like:

Andy · November 30, 2006

encosion wrote:

Hmmm... I guess... How about amending the strapline to each forum's description... Something along the lines of:

SmugMug Support
Problems? Suggestions?

SmugMug Pro Sales Support
Show Me The Money! (Pro Users Only)

SmugMug Customization
Be different or be damned. (Power and Pro Users Only)

Thanks I think we'll leave it the way it is for now, since only those that can customize are power users and pro users. And Pro Sales Support says pros in the title.

encosion · December 1, 2006

Filtering via portrait / landscape...
I think it'd be another usefull addition to the filtering tools... So you could browse via keyword... Plus turn on either "Portrait" or "Landscape" only to further whittle down... I think there are uses for this...

perrotta · December 2, 2006

Address Book
Abilitly to create/maintain an address book of recipients of photos your order.

Thanks.

I Simonius · December 3, 2006

Photoworkshop.com
Photoworkshop.com has as a fcaility for its members a portfolio shown as a Flash presentation

eg
http://www.photoworkshop.com/public/bio_intro.html

I think it looks really professional and would love SM to provide something similar in the future for its pro subbers

reach4urstar · December 4, 2006

Customizing Gallery Categories and Subcategories - recategorizing
I would LOVE a way to BULK change the gallery categories and subcategories.

I recently changed all my categories per year. It took me all night, because I had to go in one by one and change each category for each gallery. Very time consuming.

If we had a bulk tool, it could be literally done in minutes. Am I missing something because I'm pretty sure there isn't one?

My friend at beaverhausen.smugmug.com also recently changed his category and subcategory settings. He has put on his homepage a note about it (he shouldn't have to do this):

Welcome to the home of my 40,000+ photographs I've taken over the past 4 years. I recently recategorized this site. I am now placing all galleries which I have done for an assignment in the "Professional" category. All others will go under "Personal Work". I still have to move the 220+ Louisvillemojo.com galleries underneath the appropriate subcategories. These represent a large group of what I've worked on for the past 2 1/2 years. Note: there are some Louisvillemojo.com galleries under some of the other categories as well.

Andy · December 4, 2006

reach4urstar wrote:

I would LOVE a way to BULK change the gallery categories and subcategories.

I recently changed all my categories per year.

Just wanted to make sure you knew about our Date functionality

http://www.reach4urstar.smugmug.com/date/2004-11-01/2004-11-30

http://www.reach4urstar.smugmug.com/date

Trasmc · December 4, 2006

Category Password
I would love to be able to password protect an entire Category - and then all galleries assigned to this category would be accessible when entering the password one time. I believe the only way to do it now is to password each individual gallery within the category. If there is a way to password a Sharegroup - I'm not aware of it.

encosion · December 5, 2006

Andy wrote:

Just wanted to make sure you knew about our Date functionality

Andy, do you know if there is any way of changing the date on a bunch of photos? I know it's probably not a usual thing to do, but I have a bunch of photos which were taken on someone else's camera - but they hadn't set the date, so they're totally wrong... They're my photos, I was just borrowing their camera... For that reason alone the date function becomes a bit muddied and useless to me personally (at this stage in my life!)... I sort all my galleries by date anyway "YYYY.MM.DD : Gallery Title" so it's not a huge issue...

ivar · December 5, 2006

encosion wrote:

Andy, do you know if there is any way of changing the date on a bunch of photos? I know it's probably not a usual thing to do, but I have a bunch of photos which were taken on someone else's camera - but they hadn't set the date, so they're totally wrong... They're my photos, I was just borrowing their camera... For that reason alone the date function becomes a bit muddied and useless to me personally (at this stage in my life!)... I sort all my galleries by date anyway "YYYY.MM.DD : Gallery Title" so it's not a huge issue...

The dates of the actual photos can not be changed, I'm sorry.

encosion · December 5, 2006

Just thought of another feature request... Relentless I know!

Bulk keywording from within a KEYWORD gallery
There have been a number of times where I've mispelt a keyword a couple times, or decided that I'd like to use a different word for the keword chosen originally - because my idea of photos living with that keyword has slowly morphed into something else as I've gone through and tagged them... It would really help in whipping the keywords into shape... Immensly...

bwg · December 5, 2006

encosion wrote:

Just thought of another feature request... Relentless I know!

Bulk keywording from within a keyword gallery
There have been a number of times where I've mispelt a keyword a couple times, or decided that I'd like to use a different word for the keword chosen originally - because my idea of photos living with that keyword has slowly morphed into something else as I've gone through and tagged them... It would really help in whipping the keywords into shape... Immensly...

Already there. Just go to "photo tools" from within the gallery, select "Edit captions/keywords (Bulk)" and there you go. You can replace, add, delete, yadda yadda.

encosion · December 5, 2006

bigwebguy wrote:

Already there. Just go to "photo tools" from within the gallery, select "Edit captions/keywords (Bulk)" and there you go. You can replace, add, delete, yadda yadda.

I said "within a KEYWORD gallery"... You currently have a drop down menu called "tools:" with two options "Edit this Caption/Keyword" and "Edit Captions/Keywords (Bulk)"... But the latter takes you to the "Bulk Captioning" page of the gallery of the currently selected photo... Not to a "Bulk Captioning" page based on the images in the KEYWORD gallery I'm on... Obviously the images in the KEYWORD gallery are from different galleries... So to change them all, you'd have to spend considerable time, based on how well you know your photos / how well you've tagged them etc...

chrispf007 · December 5, 2006

Category Name Filter
I would like a way to delete Smugmug standard Categories that I will never use OR in the drop down menu have 2 sections and put the user created categories at the top.

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