Filenames Off --> Don't Show Filename in EXIF
When customizing a gallery, there's an option to turn filenames on or off (if no caption is given). I think it would make sense that if filenames are turned off for a gallery, the filename should no longer appear in the EXIF info for images. Sometimes filenames contain info that I don't necessarily want shared (people's names, locations) and I can remove all keywords and captions, but if EXIF ("camera") info is on, the filename is always there. If I want to leave EXIF info on, but don't want share anything else about a photo, there's no other way to hide the filename thats showed in the EXIF window, is there?
A new style -- script friendly. Galleries of this style are not meant to be viewed at all without being rewritten by a javascript program. Their only function is to present the information about the pictures in the gallery and their captions to the javascript program as cleanly and simply as possible.
I got this idea while debugging the horrible but useful journal mediums hack. This keeps breaking as smugmug refines what how the journal style works. Really the script is trying pretty hard to present these galleries in it's own way. It would be a lot cleaner and more flexible for it to just get the list of images and captions and go to town. And ultimately we might get some really cool new styles as well.
When customizing a gallery, there's an option to turn filenames on or off (if no caption is given). I think it would make sense that if filenames are turned off for a gallery, the filename should no longer appear in the EXIF info for images. Sometimes filenames contain info that I don't necessarily want shared (people's names, locations) and I can remove all keywords and captions, but if EXIF ("camera") info is on, the filename is always there. If I want to leave EXIF info on, but don't want share anything else about a photo, there's no other way to hide the filename thats showed in the EXIF window, is there?
Script friendly style
I thought about this a little more. What's the point? Why not just use the journal style and extract the img tags?
One reason is rendering speed. If the style just contained a list of untagged (or simply tagged) URLs, the small images wouldn't be downloaded before the script had a chance to do its thing...
A new style -- script friendly. Galleries of this style are not meant to be viewed at all without being rewritten by a javascript program. Their only function is to present the information about the pictures in the gallery and their captions to the javascript program as cleanly and simply as possible.
I got this idea while debugging the horrible but useful journal mediums hack. This keeps breaking as smugmug refines what how the journal style works. Really the script is trying pretty hard to present these galleries in it's own way. It would be a lot cleaner and more flexible for it to just get the list of images and captions and go to town. And ultimately we might get some really cool new styles as well.
Very convenient. But is there anyway to differentiate the Save Photo feature between the owner-feature vs owner-enabled?
I look at my albums now and often wonder if I accidentally left the Save Photo feature checked in the customization. So I end up going into the album customization to make sure it wasn't accidentally turned on... maybe I am just too paranoid, but anyway to use perhaps diff icon to differentiate?
ws
I see that this feature has been improved by saying 'Owners save' now! GREAT! Thanks!
When I create a gallery, I can select the color theme. There is a thumnail "sample" image that updates so I can preview the look before committing to it.
How about adding that in the "customize gallery" page? A few times, I've wanted to change the theme after the fact, but there's no preview. What I have to do is go create a new gallery and look at the previews there. When I find the one I want, I cancel the new gallery, go back to customize my current gallery, and then select the new theme.
Purrrty pleez?
EDIT: Also, is there a quick way to get to the control panel from within a gallery? Currently, I click on "Your Photos" to get back to my homepage, then click on "Control Panel"
MacDaddy improvements
Featured Gallery box improvements
Add holiday cards
When I close the old thread, and start a new one, you can all be certain that the summary of feature requests has been shared with the entire team
Hi I've tried looking through old FR but can see nothing about my subject
I use Categories and Sub-categories extensively, to sort my galleries. However, on the home page level, the "Updated date" does not reflect the date the last gallery was added or updated within that category. I'm not sure what date is shown but guess that it is the first date that category had a gallery added to it.
Is it possible to get the latest date of any change (ie new gallery added or an existing gallery modified/ updated) to appear on the home page under the category. Currently, it can look like a category hasn't changed in more than a year when in fact I have been updating/ adding new galleries regularly. If you can do it at this level, can it also be applied to sub-categories as well so that they also show the latest date anything was added or amended.
I'm going to add a couple of feature requests to the never-ending-list-of-feature-requests...
1) It would be really cool if we could limit which layout styles a visitor could choose from. For example, I may want a visitor to have "SmugMug" and "Journal" available, but not "Traditional".
2) It would be even cooler if we could change the names of the layout styles as they appear on our site via CSS. For example, maybe I want to change "Journal" style to "Blog".
3) It would be WAY COOL if there were some kind of visual cue (icon/artwork) that would suggest to a user what each layout style looks like. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > Apple does this with their .Mac photo pages (MobileMe now???) and it works really well.
4) It would be great if there were a control panel option for users to choose which thumbnail size would display on their category pages. Right now it's different depending on the number of galleries in a category. (I think <5 galleries gives bigger thumbnails.) How about letting a user choose one size that stays consistent across categories regardless of the number of galleries in the category.
I would like to suggest adding RSS feeds for ShareGroups.
As things stand, I have to send each person an e-mail every time I add new photos or galleries.
The way the RSS feeds work for public galleries is GREAT. Let's add the same functionality for ShareGroups, since, in effect, each ShareGroup is like a semi-public portal.
I like this suggestion since I am utilizing RSS readers on many social networking sites. It allows me to span categories when appropriate and create the content appropriate for the audience.
One more request to add regarding Sharegroups is when "Pick Galleries" is chosen I get a semi-random sequence of galleries. Can there be an option to sort them in decending sequence by: Most Recently Created | Updated, plus have the currently selected galleries either in a side panel or placed at top/bottom of the list.
You can do RSS feeds for private galleries. Smugmug won't show you the URL for the feed like they do for public galleries, but if you take an RSS feed for one of your public galleries and just change the gallery number in it to match the gallery number of the private gallery, it will work. I am using an RSS feed to a private gallery in a wireless picture frame and it works fine.
The gallery number is the part of the URL to your gallery in bold below (after gallery, before the # symbol) http://jfriend.smugmug.com/gallery/3310411#184751174.
That's great... is there an RSS feed showing private galleries by CATEGORY?
I love the featured galleries idea, however with having so many galleries I thought having the availabilty to showcase more than four would be extremely useful !
Can this be customized up to 10 perhaps and offer a few different configurations for how to show featured galleries. Perhaps these suggestions would help:
Block of thumbnails with hover hint showing the title of the gallery
Selectable gallery layout for a featured galleries frame... could use thumbnails, journal, list, scrolling list, ...
Generated Flash Banner to Featured Galleries
This suggestion is related to an increased number of featured galleries. I would love to have a static banner link that I could paste around which links to my featured galleries. This would bring a LOT of traffic to my site and give them exactly what they are seeking.
Has a fixed primary panel on top which transitions to a second panel on a timed basis, if you mouse over the banner the second panel surfaces and is frozen.
Second panel lists 6-7 thumbnails that when clicked on take to that gallery. If these thumbnail images are random from the underlying gallery that would be great, but a lot of work and likely delay the display time for the banner. Working from a featured thumbnail and defaulting to the first photo of the gallery would be a solution.
Second panel could have a slight highlight screen on the mouse-over effect with a pop-up title for the gallery linked
I would love to paste such a generated flash banner on various sites because it takes people to LIVE, NOW content and changes to show people that I am busy working. Perhaps the first 'frame' or a leading tab of the second panel would be general access to the website.
Show comment & thumbnail in photo comment email
I emailed this, but i'll also post it here:
Would be nice if a thumbnail would be in the email notification for a photo comment. Same with having the actual comment in the email. So then you would not have to click on the link to go to the photo page.
I had this feature with flickr so it would be cool in smugmug.
I like this suggestion since I am utilizing RSS readers on many social networking sites. It allows me to span categories when appropriate and create the content appropriate for the audience.
One more request to add regarding Sharegroups is when "Pick Galleries" is chosen I get a semi-random sequence of galleries. Can there be an option to sort them in decending sequence by: Most Recently Created | Updated, plus have the currently selected galleries either in a side panel or placed at top/bottom of the list.
Great ideas! Let's see some of these things implemented. The more you use a technology, the more you want out of it... and the more options you have, the more creative uses you can find.
Move to other gallery drop down menu
When you select move to other gallery or galleries the drop down menu only shows the gallery names. I have a couple galleries that are named the same but in different categories or subcategories. It would be nice if the drop down menu showed which category and/or subcategory the gallery is in so when you move it you know exactly which gallery it is.
This drop down menu should be sorted alphabetically also. So it could be first organized alphabetically by category then sub category then gallery. Or just have three drop downs. One for category, one for subcategory and one for gallery. This is already implemented when you create a new gallery. It displays the categories then when you select the category you can select the subcategory within that category.
When you select move to other gallery or galleries the drop down menu only shows the gallery names. I have a couple galleries that are named the same but in different categories or subcategories. It would be nice if the drop down menu showed which category and/or subcategory the gallery is in so when you move it you know exactly which gallery it is.
This drop down menu should be sorted alphabetically also. So it could be first organized alphabetically by category then sub category then gallery. Or just have three drop downs. One for category, one for subcategory and one for gallery. This is already implemented when you create a new gallery. It displays the categories then when you select the category you can select the subcategory within that category.
What I do is add an x in front of the "move to" gallery name, then just type that
letter in drop and it zooms to it. After move you're in the "move to" gallery so it's
easy to hit edit and delete the x.
Uploaders
I'm just a regular non technical user with my adequate Canon digital elph. I just saw all your new uploaders and hate to have to install another program like Picassa or deal with the many clicks of the "simple" method. Is there any chance you'll have an easy uploader for ZoomBrowser EX? I miss the dragging in the old version!
Scrolling down in the cart
I hope i am not rehashing what has already been discussed but i have found that the price list in the shopping cart can create some confusion. If you click on the bottom of the slider, to go down a page, it jumps to the bottom of the price list as opposed to just going down a page like most other windows slider. I have had customers comment on the fact that there are not very many sizes available and that it jumps from the 8x10 to the last page not understanding there are a number of pages in between. Let me know what u think.
When you select move to other gallery or galleries the drop down menu only shows the gallery names. I have a couple galleries that are named the same but in different categories or subcategories. It would be nice if the drop down menu showed which category and/or subcategory the gallery is in so when you move it you know exactly which gallery it is.
This drop down menu should be sorted alphabetically also. So it could be first organized alphabetically by category then sub category then gallery. Or just have three drop downs. One for category, one for subcategory and one for gallery. This is already implemented when you create a new gallery. It displays the categories then when you select the category you can select the subcategory within that category.
I would strongly agree with Pete's note....
While SmugMug has the built-in hierarchy of Category, Subcat, and Gallery/Album, which enables duplicate Album names...... this hierarchy is largely ignored by SmugMug in basic photo-handling operations, such as Move. I have also found that this hierarchy is ignored by many of the 3rd-party tools.
This would correlate to Microsoft Windows allowing C:\folder1\Test and c:\folder2\Test (which it does).... but sort of implying (without saying it) that folder names should be unique by having Windows Explorer just show a flat list of sub-folder names instead of the hierarchical folder structure.
I do understand that there are work-arounds, but this is basic file operations (as opposed to quibbling about a nice feature). Smugmug should either embrace the hierarchical structure or not.
I would think that the fix to this should be relatively straightforward. Instead of simply showing album names on operations like Move, show the full album name, including the category and subcat. The Picasa uploader does this on uploads.
last uploads from friends in control panel
It would be nice to see the last uploads from friends in the control panel (eventually to be added as a visible feature to everybody).
This can be built on top of this other feature request I guess:
Hopefully this would be an easy upgrade / addition.
Allow users to 'subscribe' to my page or gallery - this would be simpler than an RSS feed and more user friendly for the new-to-the-internet family that mostly browse my page.
My youtube page allows people to subscribe so that anytime I add videos they get an email "hey your friend john just uploaded a new video, check it out here".
Preferences here could be for notifications when a new gallery is uploaded within a certain category, or uploaded to any of my categories.
Hopefully this would be an easy upgrade / addition.
Allow users to 'subscribe' to my page or gallery - this would be simpler than an RSS feed and more user friendly for the new-to-the-internet family that mostly browse my page.
My youtube page allows people to subscribe so that anytime I add videos they get an email "hey your friend john just uploaded a new video, check it out here".
Preferences here could be for notifications when a new gallery is uploaded within a certain category, or uploaded to any of my categories.
What do ya'll think?
I second this. Hell, I can even do that with my blog. Currently, I have to grab a link to the first newly-added pic in the gallery and email it out to everyone in my address book... I kinda feel like a whore by doing so.
BUT... if there were an option in SM for them to "opt-in" to such updates... that would be awesome. Plus, anyone could do so, not just people that I have email addresses for.
Allow users to 'subscribe' to my page or gallery - this would be simpler than an RSS feed and more user friendly for the new-to-the-internet family that mostly browse my page.
You should check out www.feedburner.com. I have implemented it on a couple of my Smugmug sites. Easy to setup and it does alot of what you are talking about.
Shopping Cart Improvement (should be easy)
Can we get a button on the "Billing Info" screen to use the shipping address (since I've lazily not corrected my address on file?). This is pretty common on most e-commerce sites, entering your info twice is a pain.
My smugmug dreams:
1. Official smugmug customization tech support for pro+ users
2. Bulk Keyword editing (find/replace) across the site .
3. Promotion/Discount codes gallery pricing. (applying a code give 20% off etc.)
4. Star Rating import from Aperture.
5. Pricing photos by star rating
6. Password protected Categories/Sub-Categories.
7. Customers can 'Add photos' to a gallery option. (or a list of authorized users or with password).
8. Keeping all photos on my site and using only smugmug shopping cart and orders execution.
My smugmug dreams:
1. Official smugmug customization tech support for pro+ users (instead of: sorry, we can't help you on this one, why don't open a new thread on dgrin.. )
2. Bulk Keyword editing (find/replace) across the site.
3. easy 'Smart' galleries option. (Keywords, dates, etc)
3. Promotion/Discount codes/coupons gallery pricing. (applying a code give 20% off etc.)
4. Star Rating import from Aperture. (or find all photos with '3star' keyword and bulk change star rating to 3 stars).
5. Set photo price by star rating option for a gallery.
6. Password protected Categories/Sub-Categories.
7. Customers can bulk 'Add photos' to a gallery option. (everyone, only with a password or a list of authorized users).
8. using only smugmug shopping cart and orders execution, while keeping all photos on my site. (SM customization is great but can also be a nightmare, and I do like the print and product service.)
It has been said many times ... by me and by others ... Virtual Galleries is a longed-for high-wanted much-needed enhancement
Request:
Be able to build a virtual gallery with no physical photos ... only pointers to Real Galleries where the photo is stored.Apart from this I would expect a Virtual Gallery to be just like a Real Gallery
Benefits
For the photo provider there is a significent save of time (less uploading and less need to maintain copies of photos that previously was stored in separate Real Galleries). He/she would also be able to easily provide the viewer with overviews or cross-gallery summeries ... like the best wedding photos from a whole season .. or the best from a specific event
For the viewer it would mean a possibility to view a collection on various levels ... either as a summary or all detaiuls. Photos can also easily be arranged in different ways for different consumers. One Virtual Gallery could have the focus on the wedding couple with a few hints of guests while another one would show most of the guests and just a few photos of the married couple
For SmugMug I would say there are ups and dows ... maybe a down is an increased complexity and design of the whole SmugMug service (don't know). But Virtual Galleries would probably mean less storage used since a photo just need to be uploaded once. And less processing since (again) a photo is uploaded once. It also would plug one of the very few functionality gaps whitch may exists compared to other service providers.
Other:
In general I have seen quite many suggestion how to get around the need for Virtual Galleries ... keywords, coding, links, ... and these are actually very good examples of the flexibility of SmugMug and of the positive support from both users and staff. I looked at them and did in the end opt-out. These suggestions are either too complex for me or not really what I was looking for.
Therefor I raise a strong vote (again) for Virtual Galleries as an integrated facility
Regards, Harald
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My focus is on digitizing memories
Therefor I raise a strong vote (again) for Virtual Galleries as an integrated facility
Regards, Harald
Me too!!! I'm new to smugmug, and I'd love to have some of the functionality I've come to rely on so strongly in iPhoto, namely: all my pics are stored in rolls, the ones I like the best, I drag over to an album.
Also, I love the option of hiding photos, this has been my work around for the whole "no virtual galleries" thing. But for me, the opposite option would be more useful. Here's what I mean: I'm on vacation and on an average day, I take probably 300 + pictures. I'm crazy like that. I have probably anywhere from 30- 100 that I really like (and in a perfect world, those would go into the wished for Virtual Galleries...hint hint) so rather than clicking 200- 270 individual hide buttons, I could instead click 30-100 "Highlight" buttons. This would create a highlight album with a "View All" button that my hard core fans could click if they wanted to slog through all 300 pictures (minus the ones that I've chosen to hide, of course!)
The way it works right now is kind of like studying for a test using a sharpie to black out all the less important info in your text book instead of just using a highlighter!
Comments
When customizing a gallery, there's an option to turn filenames on or off (if no caption is given). I think it would make sense that if filenames are turned off for a gallery, the filename should no longer appear in the EXIF info for images. Sometimes filenames contain info that I don't necessarily want shared (people's names, locations) and I can remove all keywords and captions, but if EXIF ("camera") info is on, the filename is always there. If I want to leave EXIF info on, but don't want share anything else about a photo, there's no other way to hide the filename thats showed in the EXIF window, is there?
Brian
I got this idea while debugging the horrible but useful journal mediums hack. This keeps breaking as smugmug refines what how the journal style works. Really the script is trying pretty hard to present these galleries in it's own way. It would be a lot cleaner and more flexible for it to just get the list of images and captions and go to town. And ultimately we might get some really cool new styles as well.
I don't recommend changing the filenames - put the descriptive info in where it belongs, in iptc description (which'll be our caption) or in keywords
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I thought about this a little more. What's the point? Why not just use the journal style and extract the img tags?
One reason is rendering speed. If the style just contained a list of untagged (or simply tagged) URLs, the small images wouldn't be downloaded before the script had a chance to do its thing...
I see that this feature has been improved by saying 'Owners save' now! GREAT! Thanks!
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How about adding that in the "customize gallery" page? A few times, I've wanted to change the theme after the fact, but there's no preview. What I have to do is go create a new gallery and look at the previews there. When I find the one I want, I cancel the new gallery, go back to customize my current gallery, and then select the new theme.
Purrrty pleez?
EDIT: Also, is there a quick way to get to the control panel from within a gallery? Currently, I click on "Your Photos" to get back to my homepage, then click on "Control Panel"
◇ Photos | Blogs | Twitter | MySpace | Facebook ◇
Hi I've tried looking through old FR but can see nothing about my subject
I use Categories and Sub-categories extensively, to sort my galleries. However, on the home page level, the "Updated date" does not reflect the date the last gallery was added or updated within that category. I'm not sure what date is shown but guess that it is the first date that category had a gallery added to it.
Is it possible to get the latest date of any change (ie new gallery added or an existing gallery modified/ updated) to appear on the home page under the category. Currently, it can look like a category hasn't changed in more than a year when in fact I have been updating/ adding new galleries regularly. If you can do it at this level, can it also be applied to sub-categories as well so that they also show the latest date anything was added or amended.
Thanks
Charles
1) It would be really cool if we could limit which layout styles a visitor could choose from. For example, I may want a visitor to have "SmugMug" and "Journal" available, but not "Traditional".
2) It would be even cooler if we could change the names of the layout styles as they appear on our site via CSS. For example, maybe I want to change "Journal" style to "Blog".
3) It would be WAY COOL if there were some kind of visual cue (icon/artwork) that would suggest to a user what each layout style looks like. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/bowdown.gif" border="0" alt="" > Apple does this with their .Mac photo pages (MobileMe now???) and it works really well.
4) It would be great if there were a control panel option for users to choose which thumbnail size would display on their category pages. Right now it's different depending on the number of galleries in a category. (I think <5 galleries gives bigger thumbnails.) How about letting a user choose one size that stays consistent across categories regardless of the number of galleries in the category.
Dale
http://www.dalebaskin.com
I like this suggestion since I am utilizing RSS readers on many social networking sites. It allows me to span categories when appropriate and create the content appropriate for the audience.
One more request to add regarding Sharegroups is when "Pick Galleries" is chosen I get a semi-random sequence of galleries. Can there be an option to sort them in decending sequence by: Most Recently Created | Updated, plus have the currently selected galleries either in a side panel or placed at top/bottom of the list.
Capturing and creating fashion, film, festivals around Detroit
Wordpress-ed Fuzzytek
That's great... is there an RSS feed showing private galleries by CATEGORY?
Capturing and creating fashion, film, festivals around Detroit
Wordpress-ed Fuzzytek
Can this be customized up to 10 perhaps and offer a few different configurations for how to show featured galleries. Perhaps these suggestions would help:
Capturing and creating fashion, film, festivals around Detroit
Wordpress-ed Fuzzytek
This suggestion is related to an increased number of featured galleries. I would love to have a static banner link that I could paste around which links to my featured galleries. This would bring a LOT of traffic to my site and give them exactly what they are seeking.
- Has a fixed primary panel on top which transitions to a second panel on a timed basis, if you mouse over the banner the second panel surfaces and is frozen.
- Second panel lists 6-7 thumbnails that when clicked on take to that gallery. If these thumbnail images are random from the underlying gallery that would be great, but a lot of work and likely delay the display time for the banner. Working from a featured thumbnail and defaulting to the first photo of the gallery would be a solution.
- Second panel could have a slight highlight screen on the mouse-over effect with a pop-up title for the gallery linked
I would love to paste such a generated flash banner on various sites because it takes people to LIVE, NOW content and changes to show people that I am busy working. Perhaps the first 'frame' or a leading tab of the second panel would be general access to the website.Capturing and creating fashion, film, festivals around Detroit
Wordpress-ed Fuzzytek
I emailed this, but i'll also post it here:
Would be nice if a thumbnail would be in the email notification for a photo comment. Same with having the actual comment in the email. So then you would not have to click on the link to go to the photo page.
I had this feature with flickr so it would be cool in smugmug.
Thanks!
Great ideas! Let's see some of these things implemented. The more you use a technology, the more you want out of it... and the more options you have, the more creative uses you can find.
cjc-abc.smugmug.com
www.missionarycopelandfamily.org
When you select move to other gallery or galleries the drop down menu only shows the gallery names. I have a couple galleries that are named the same but in different categories or subcategories. It would be nice if the drop down menu showed which category and/or subcategory the gallery is in so when you move it you know exactly which gallery it is.
This drop down menu should be sorted alphabetically also. So it could be first organized alphabetically by category then sub category then gallery. Or just have three drop downs. One for category, one for subcategory and one for gallery. This is already implemented when you create a new gallery. It displays the categories then when you select the category you can select the subcategory within that category.
letter in drop and it zooms to it. After move you're in the "move to" gallery so it's
easy to hit edit and delete the x.
My Website index | My Blog
I'm just a regular non technical user with my adequate Canon digital elph. I just saw all your new uploaders and hate to have to install another program like Picassa or deal with the many clicks of the "simple" method. Is there any chance you'll have an easy uploader for ZoomBrowser EX? I miss the dragging in the old version!
I hope i am not rehashing what has already been discussed but i have found that the price list in the shopping cart can create some confusion. If you click on the bottom of the slider, to go down a page, it jumps to the bottom of the price list as opposed to just going down a page like most other windows slider. I have had customers comment on the fact that there are not very many sizes available and that it jumps from the 8x10 to the last page not understanding there are a number of pages in between. Let me know what u think.
Rich:ivar
I would strongly agree with Pete's note....
While SmugMug has the built-in hierarchy of Category, Subcat, and Gallery/Album, which enables duplicate Album names...... this hierarchy is largely ignored by SmugMug in basic photo-handling operations, such as Move. I have also found that this hierarchy is ignored by many of the 3rd-party tools.
This would correlate to Microsoft Windows allowing C:\folder1\Test and c:\folder2\Test (which it does).... but sort of implying (without saying it) that folder names should be unique by having Windows Explorer just show a flat list of sub-folder names instead of the hierarchical folder structure.
I do understand that there are work-arounds, but this is basic file operations (as opposed to quibbling about a nice feature). Smugmug should either embrace the hierarchical structure or not.
I would think that the fix to this should be relatively straightforward. Instead of simply showing album names on operations like Move, show the full album name, including the category and subcat. The Picasa uploader does this on uploads.
Thanks,
Tom K.
www.kirkpatrick.smugmug.com
Hide Photos in bulk mode rather that 1 at a time, please.
Photos | Blog | Youtube
It would be nice to see the last uploads from friends in the control panel (eventually to be added as a visible feature to everybody).
This can be built on top of this other feature request I guess:
http://dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=862023&postcount=474
Cheers, Sergio
Allow users to 'subscribe' to my page or gallery - this would be simpler than an RSS feed and more user friendly for the new-to-the-internet family that mostly browse my page.
My youtube page allows people to subscribe so that anytime I add videos they get an email "hey your friend john just uploaded a new video, check it out here".
Preferences here could be for notifications when a new gallery is uploaded within a certain category, or uploaded to any of my categories.
What do ya'll think?
Nikon | Private Photojournalist
I second this. Hell, I can even do that with my blog. Currently, I have to grab a link to the first newly-added pic in the gallery and email it out to everyone in my address book... I kinda feel like a whore by doing so.
BUT... if there were an option in SM for them to "opt-in" to such updates... that would be awesome. Plus, anyone could do so, not just people that I have email addresses for.
◇ Photos | Blogs | Twitter | MySpace | Facebook ◇
You should check out www.feedburner.com. I have implemented it on a couple of my Smugmug sites. Easy to setup and it does alot of what you are talking about.
Thanks,
Tom K.
Can we get a button on the "Billing Info" screen to use the shipping address (since I've lazily not corrected my address on file?). This is pretty common on most e-commerce sites, entering your info twice is a pain.
-r
1. Official smugmug customization tech support for pro+ users
2. Bulk Keyword editing (find/replace) across the site .
3. Promotion/Discount codes gallery pricing. (applying a code give 20% off etc.)
4. Star Rating import from Aperture.
5. Pricing photos by star rating
6. Password protected Categories/Sub-Categories.
7. Customers can 'Add photos' to a gallery option. (or a list of authorized users or with password).
8. Keeping all photos on my site and using only smugmug shopping cart and orders execution.
1. Official smugmug customization tech support for pro+ users (instead of: sorry, we can't help you on this one, why don't open a new thread on dgrin.. )
2. Bulk Keyword editing (find/replace) across the site.
3. easy 'Smart' galleries option. (Keywords, dates, etc)
3. Promotion/Discount codes/coupons gallery pricing. (applying a code give 20% off etc.)
4. Star Rating import from Aperture. (or find all photos with '3star' keyword and bulk change star rating to 3 stars).
5. Set photo price by star rating option for a gallery.
6. Password protected Categories/Sub-Categories.
7. Customers can bulk 'Add photos' to a gallery option. (everyone, only with a password or a list of authorized users).
8. using only smugmug shopping cart and orders execution, while keeping all photos on my site. (SM customization is great but can also be a nightmare, and I do like the print and product service.)
Thanks
Morning,
It has been said many times ... by me and by others ... Virtual Galleries is a longed-for high-wanted much-needed enhancement
Request:
Be able to build a virtual gallery with no physical photos ... only pointers to Real Galleries where the photo is stored.Apart from this I would expect a Virtual Gallery to be just like a Real Gallery
Benefits
For the photo provider there is a significent save of time (less uploading and less need to maintain copies of photos that previously was stored in separate Real Galleries). He/she would also be able to easily provide the viewer with overviews or cross-gallery summeries ... like the best wedding photos from a whole season .. or the best from a specific event
For the viewer it would mean a possibility to view a collection on various levels ... either as a summary or all detaiuls. Photos can also easily be arranged in different ways for different consumers. One Virtual Gallery could have the focus on the wedding couple with a few hints of guests while another one would show most of the guests and just a few photos of the married couple
For SmugMug I would say there are ups and dows ... maybe a down is an increased complexity and design of the whole SmugMug service (don't know). But Virtual Galleries would probably mean less storage used since a photo just need to be uploaded once. And less processing since (again) a photo is uploaded once. It also would plug one of the very few functionality gaps whitch may exists compared to other service providers.
Other:
In general I have seen quite many suggestion how to get around the need for Virtual Galleries ... keywords, coding, links, ... and these are actually very good examples of the flexibility of SmugMug and of the positive support from both users and staff. I looked at them and did in the end opt-out. These suggestions are either too complex for me or not really what I was looking for.
Therefor I raise a strong vote (again) for Virtual Galleries as an integrated facility
Regards, Harald
My focus is on digitizing memories
Me too!!! I'm new to smugmug, and I'd love to have some of the functionality I've come to rely on so strongly in iPhoto, namely: all my pics are stored in rolls, the ones I like the best, I drag over to an album.
Also, I love the option of hiding photos, this has been my work around for the whole "no virtual galleries" thing. But for me, the opposite option would be more useful. Here's what I mean: I'm on vacation and on an average day, I take probably 300 + pictures. I'm crazy like that.
The way it works right now is kind of like studying for a test using a sharpie to black out all the less important info in your text book instead of just using a highlighter!
Alice