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I know I have asked about it before, but its the time of year when I try to stop and clean up the website. It would be very nice if there was a bulk delete feature for the galleries. I have 138 I need to delete and I am pretty sure I have to go in and open each gallery, hit the toggle bar, find delete gallery, confirm the delete, and then start over with the remaining 137 galleries that I need to delete.
Thanks in advance for looking into the possibility of a new feature!
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My solution:
I would use SmugBrowser or 'quick' settings to make them private and p/w protected. Faster & easier
And if you need the pics again, you have them already.
I know I have asked about it before, but its the time of year when I try to stop and clean up the website. It would be very nice if there was a bulk delete feature for the galleries. I have 138 I need to delete and I am pretty sure I have to go in and open each gallery, hit the toggle bar, find delete gallery, confirm the delete, and then start over with the remaining 137 galleries that I need to delete.
Thanks in advance for looking into the possibility of a new feature!
That sounds dangerous, a lot us have duplicate gallery names. Maybe a
feature to do it under a category or sub-cat.
Disable RSS feeds
Apparently the only way to disable the RSS and ATOM feeds is to completely lock down your site via "Hello World" and "Hello Smuggers". I'd like to be able to simply say "[] No, don't allow feeds" in the settings page.
New Product Idea
For the past few years, my wife and I have done Christmas/New Year's cards by ordering photo greeting cards (non-folded). We then print up a little letter on full-sheet labels, cut the sheets up, and stick the labels to the back of the photo card.
If someone (say SmugMug) would provide a product that was a photo card on the front and a custom letter on the back, that would be wonderful. It would save us a good bit of time, and it would differentiate SmugMug from the rest of the photo card pack.
Apparently the only way to disable the RSS and ATOM feeds is to completely lock down your site via "Hello World" and "Hello Smuggers". I'd like to be able to simply say "[] No, don't allow feeds" in the settings page.
- Phil
Putting a password on the gallery will do it also.
Move Copy?
OK, just my .02, and if it's hidden somewhere I don't know about, please someone tell me.
I'm about to fiddle with the flash slide show on my home page...I have images from different galleries that I'd like to feature. I know I can "make a 2nd copy" of an image and then "move" the image to the gallery....but how about a "Move a copy of image (bulk)"? would be nice go browse through my galleries, see all the thumbnails, click on the ones I want to put in a featured gallery, and click "Move a copy of selected images to this gallery:"
If someone has a better idea to help me, I'm all for those suggestions too.
I shot at the local police k9 competition...38 competitors. These were not galleries that they wanted open to everyone so they are password protected. The competitors will want to look at their own galleries, and those of the other competitors. In order to separate them, I had to create a category for the event and a separate gallery for each competitor. Each individual gallery is password protected and kind of a pain to go from one gallery to the other and enter passwords.
Would be the same for weddings...I create a sub-category for each couple like HERE then I can separate photos from the event.....i.e. a gallery of formal pics taken, a gallery of just the ceremony, a gallery of the reception, etc.
Password protecting a category or subcategory would allow access to all those areas at one time. If you wanted to further password just a gallery, then that could be done too.
I shot at the local police k9 competition...38 competitors. These were not galleries that they wanted open to everyone so they are password protected. The competitors will want to look at their own galleries, and those of the other competitors. In order to separate them, I had to create a category for the event and a separate gallery for each competitor. Each individual gallery is password protected and kind of a pain to go from one gallery to the other and enter passwords.
Would be the same for weddings...I create a sub-category for each couple like HERE then I can separate photos from the event.....i.e. a gallery of formal pics taken, a gallery of just the ceremony, a gallery of the reception, etc.
Password protecting a category or subcategory would allow access to all those areas at one time. If you wanted to further password just a gallery, then that could be done too.
Again, just my .02
I'm not arguing against the convenience of password protected categories (I would use it if it was available), but the work-around works pretty well and that's what I use.
If you create a category, then create a bunch of galleries all with the same password in that gallery, then feature a photo in each gallery (to get rid of the lock icon image) it gives you almost everything a password protected category would give you. When a user comes to the category, they see all the gallery icons. When they open the first gallery, they are challenged for the password. They can then open all the other galleries with the same password without being challenged again for the password. They only have to enter the password once.
You can simplify creating all the galleries with the same password by either using a Smugmug template to create them, using StarExplorer to bulk create them all with the same settings or by using SmugBrowser to set all the galleries the same way after the fact.
After you've set up this work-around, the only additional feature you would get with true password-protected categories would be that you'd be challenged for the password before you could even see the galleries names. In the work-around, you are allowed to see the gallery names before being challenged for a password. This hasn't been an issue for my uses.
Try it, it works pretty well. Not as convenient to set up as a true category password, but works nearly as well.
automatic advance through photos in lightbox?
I currently have most of my galleries set up to allow the viewer to choose the style. The reason I've done that is that I like to have both smugmug style and slideshow available (not the full-screen slideshow, don't like that one!).
What I'd really like to do is to lock the galleries to smugmug style and have the added option in lightbox to automatically advance through the photos.
It seems that would give me the best of both worlds, smugmug style to quickly glance through the photos in a gallery, and an automated advance in lightbox. With the addition of smugmungous / stretchy, I think that lightbox gives the nicest presentation of the photos for a viewer who wants to step through each photo in a gallery.
I've toyed wtih creating shadow galleries to display the photos via the Shizam slide show, but I really don't want to create a shadow of each gallery, and the slide show doesn't appear to give me a way to have the photos size to fit the screen the way that lightbox does.
Sample gallery with shadow, links in the description to jump between the galleries:
Display all IPTC Metadata
I think it would be nice to make all IPTC metadata that comes in with an image available for searching and display. Perhaps the Info window could show Basic, Detailed and "Geek Level" or something.
multiple downloads
I don't know if this has been requested before, if it has, consider this as vote for it. I would like to have a way to download multiple images at once, maybe whole albums or even whole categories. Is this possible? Does Smugmug have a stance on this? Is this feature under development? What do other dgrinners think about this?
I don't know if this has been requested before, if it has, consider this as vote for it. I would like to have a way to download multiple images at once, maybe whole albums or even whole categories. Is this possible? Does Smugmug have a stance on this? Is this feature under development? What do other dgrinners think about this?
Copy link for EXIF data
Just spent a very frustrating 15 minutes trying to figure out how to post EXIF data from one of my images to a forum. Had to come over here, search the forum until I found the work-around of putting your gallery into thumbnail view and click on exif and then copying the URL referenced in the pop-up.
Would be a lot simpler if it was a line on the Share page (where it shows the URL for galleries, slideshows, various sizes of a single image.)
Just spent a very frustrating 15 minutes trying to figure out how to post EXIF data from one of my images to a forum. Had to come over here, search the forum until I found the work-around of putting your gallery into thumbnail view and click on exif and then copying the URL referenced in the pop-up.
Would be a lot simpler if it was a line on the Share page (where it shows the URL for galleries, slideshows, various sizes of a single image.)
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Hi Smugmug, I've been a loyal customer for years and hope to continue to be for years to come.
I would like to reiterate previous requests for supporting foreign languages throughout the website. I was browsing the forum and have read that you have Unicode-8 supported for certain sections, and that's a great start, and hope you continue to work on it.
Also, I would like to request additional user-control over the captioning of each photo as well as galleries; similar to Zenfolio's method. For example, I hope to be able to control the sentence breaks, bolding, italics, etc.
My last request is about the layout, and that is to add the option of having a "blog-like" layout for those who want to create a simple blog gallery. For example, I would like to compose a photo essay of my trip; the main content is the essay, while the supporting content are the photos. Currently, you have a journal layout, where the user can write a paragraph for each photo. My idea is similar to that, but instead of adding text to each photo, let the text be the main focus and allow photos to be added to the text (essay). Please let me know if you need clarifications. And I do realize this is first a foremost a photo album website, but my request is not to have Smugmug be a blog service, but to just allow tweaks to the Journal interface to create a new, simple Blog (or Photo Essay) interface for those who want to use that feature.
Also, I would like to request additional user-control over the captioning of each photo as well as galleries; similar to Zenfolio's method. For example, I hope to be able to control the sentence breaks, bolding, italics, etc.
This you can already do. Just enter a caption or gallery description and bracket it with two extra tags like: "<html>Your own HTML here</html>". This tells Smugmug that you are taking full responsibility for the formatting and it should not process line breaks, etc... You will find that there is a default CSS style for these elements (e.g. captions are bold by default) so if you have a power or pro account, you can also control that.
I'm pretty sure some of these have been mentioned before, but anyway...
1) The addition of "Hide Photo" is a good step, but could be improved by:
a) give some obvious indication to the album owner which photos are hidden when they're browsing the album (a small overlay on the thumbnail corner, for instance)
b) Bulk Hide Images. This would make it easy to see all images in a album, indicate which ones are hidden or not, and make to easy to just go through and click click click... save to change a whole bunch of images to hidden/not hidden.
2) Copy Album/Gallery. I like to upload a private album for each shoot for backup/order photos for me & family, but then for some albums I'd like to make images from it available for sale/public, but not with all the same images. It would be great to just say "Copy Album", and it creates an exact duplicate with a different album name ("Copy of ..."). Then it would be easy to go into the new album, remove images that I don't want public, and change the album settings. Currently I'd have to reupload the images (never make me reupload the same image!) or do "Make 2nd Copy" for each image and then move them (what if there's hundred's of images? Yuck!)
3) Image Make 2nd Copy (Bulk). Same reasoning as #2, but sometimes it'd be easier to just do mulitple images at once instead of the whole album.
4) Image Copy To... (single image and bulk versions.) Instead of the 2 step process of Making a 2nd Copy and then Moving the Image to a new location, combine this into one step.
All these should be easy enough, as I've started using the API to create my own interface to do these exact things!
5) Allow album owners to rate images 0-5 stars themselves (display of these ratings to the public can be a setting to toggle). It'd also be nice if this rating could be picked up from images exported from Adobe Bridge/Lightroom (although that's stored in XMP metadata not EXIF I believe). I currently go through images from a shoot, rate/flag them, export them, then upload them to smugmug (into a personal private gallery). Now see #2/#3 above (Copy Album). It'd be a whole lot easier for me to copy the best images into a public gallery if they already had the ratings from Lightroom (or if I could go through once and rate them). I'd also be a good option to sort images in a gallery by their rating. Currently I'm trying to compare filenames or pick & choose and its not very efficient (And reexporting/reuploading is impractical. I already uploaded the exact image I want to use, don't make me upload it again!)
Also, I would like to see international support in the areas of language, ordering, payment and viewing. I'm in Japan using Smugmug and I'm finding the schools are starting to use it and like the features.
There really isn't anything out there that compares to Smugmugs features that does work with both America and Japan.
And make keywords work with Kanji. I know there is a problem with the urls and keywords but it can be overcome.
I guess this isn't really a feature request, but I don't know where else to put it...
...So, I've had my Smugmug account for a couple of months, and have gotten several print orders from it :-)
As soon as I get the notification of each order, I've been emailing the customer and asking him/her to email me back after receiving the prints, and let me know if s/he was satisfied with the quality, service, etc.
So far, everyone has been at least satisfied with print quality (one person said it was not as good as she was used to, but still satisfactory; everyone else was very pleased.)
However, about two-thirds of them volunteered that the print-order page is "complicated", "confusing", "not as easy to use as Kodak", "not as easy to use as Shutterfly", etc.
Granted, I haven't had a lot of orders so this represents a very small sample. But it concerns me that this complaint appears so consistently.
I haven't studied the competition's order pages, so don't know what they do that Smugmug doesn't. But I thought I ought to pass this on.
Thanks for the feedback, it's like gold to us - we really appreciate it.
Andy, thanks so much! I feel a bit foolish now seeing how easy it is to locate the link.
(Mind you, the Share page is still a better idea since we were there copying the URL of the image we wanted to post on a forum. So much easier if we could just switch windows/tabs and grab the EXIF link as well. <GRIN>)
Add EXIF Info to Resized Images
I noticed EXIF is only included in the original image. For all the pixel peepers out there, I'd like to request EXIF included in all image sizes.
Packages/Coupons etc...
I know this feature request has been stated ad nauseum...but I have to chime in and say that this is my highest order request. To the point of needing to change over to another service, which I absolutely do not want to do.
I shoot primarily youth league action and events with some portrait work sprinkled in. Packages and coupons are a must have!!
As of right now, I'm having to offer my packages to my customers, they go to my website and write down the image numbers and sizes they want and I have to place the order for them. Needless to say this is a very unprofessional way to present my company.
I just landed our youth league T&I and Action contract (5-600 kiddos) as well as the Pop Warner league for next fall and have to figure out a solution immediately. Is this feature in the works?
If someone else has another workflow solution, for the time being, w/out having to leave SmugMug, I'm all ears.
Thanks to SM for their outstanding service. I'm otherwise quite pleased with you guys!
contact import/contact groups/easier bulk settings changes
Hi everyone,
Count me among the very satisfied SmugMuggers out there. I have been using the service for about a month and it has been great so far!
I do have a few feature requests, however....:D
1.) Bulk import of contacts from Gmail--I wish there was a way I could get all of my Gmail contacts into SM. I know Gmail can export them as .csv, so if I could just import them...it would save me a lot of time and hassle.
2.) Mailing lists/groups of contacts--for example, I would like to be able to click on one contact group and email my entire family instead of having to click each member separately when using the Share function.
3.) Bulk settings where you can change just one setting across multiple galleries without changing all of the other settings. For example, I would like to be able to bulk turn on and off printing without losing my other settings (like private, etc.) for the galleries that have unique settings.
My request
Is to have two separate areas to enter keywords or to have the account holders keywords not be able to be edited or deleted.
One is for the account holder - us
The second is for our clients where they can enter their own keyword to assist them in a search.
Right now I do not allow my customers the ability to edit keywords for fear they will screw up what I have already put in for keywords making my searches useless. I would love to have the option for my clients to enter their own keywords so they can come back and search for their own photos based on their entered keywords. This would be very beneficial for sports shooters.
I do not enter any racers names or numbers - just too tedious. My clients have no ability to tag photos as favorites so their only option is to do a search based on keywords, but I will not allow clients to access keywords for the reason mentioned above. If customers had their own ability to enter keywords in a separate field - would be useful. Or just easier would ve the avility for customers to tag photos a favorites.
new user comments
As a very new Smugmug user the things that INSTANTLY annoy me are:
1. If I want the same photo to appear in multiple galleries, I have to either upload it twice (once to each gallery) or duplicate the photo then move it.
2. (This is the biggie) Managing categories, subcategories, galleries, and photos is INCREDIBLY PAINFUL. To create a category I have to go to one place, to create a subcategory I have to go to another place, to create a gallery I have to go to another place, to place an image where I want it to go I have to go to another place, etc etc. And if I want to move multiple galleries from one cat/subcat to another, it's crazy how difficult it is.
new comment notice
I use the comment space of some of my galleries to communicate back and forth with some of my customers that are out of my immediate area. (i.e. Senior Portraits I did for a gal that lives 3 hours from me....her and her mom are able to leave comments below the pictures and it makes it much easier for me to remember what images they have asked questions about or want to see touched up. They can leave comments to tell me which ones they do/don't like, etc.)
It would be nice to somehow have a message that pops up on my homepage (just for me when I'm logged in) that tells me I have new comments. I think something like that happens when there is new "news"? It would help to remind me that I need to check and see what my customers are wanting.
Thanks for your time & thoughts.
Also...a plug for a past request of mine....bulk copy! or even "copy gallery"! Better yet....bulk copy and move....all at the same time. So that when I upload images to smugmug into a gallery, I can choose my few favorites from that gallery, bulk copy and move them into the gallery I use for my slideshow...kind of my "best of" gallery.
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I know I have asked about it before, but its the time of year when I try to stop and clean up the website. It would be very nice if there was a bulk delete feature for the galleries. I have 138 I need to delete and I am pretty sure I have to go in and open each gallery, hit the toggle bar, find delete gallery, confirm the delete, and then start over with the remaining 137 galleries that I need to delete.
Thanks in advance for looking into the possibility of a new feature!
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My solution:
I would use SmugBrowser or 'quick' settings to make them private and p/w protected. Faster & easier
And if you need the pics again, you have them already.
feature to do it under a category or sub-cat.
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Apparently the only way to disable the RSS and ATOM feeds is to completely lock down your site via "Hello World" and "Hello Smuggers". I'd like to be able to simply say "[] No, don't allow feeds" in the settings page.
http://www.philmaland.com/
For the past few years, my wife and I have done Christmas/New Year's cards by ordering photo greeting cards (non-folded). We then print up a little letter on full-sheet labels, cut the sheets up, and stick the labels to the back of the photo card.
If someone (say SmugMug) would provide a product that was a photo card on the front and a custom letter on the back, that would be wonderful. It would save us a good bit of time, and it would differentiate SmugMug from the rest of the photo card pack.
My $0.02. Happy New Year!
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Putting a password on the gallery will do it also.
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...I'm going to request password protected categories / subcategories. Seriously folks. It's time!
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OK, just my .02, and if it's hidden somewhere I don't know about, please someone tell me.
I'm about to fiddle with the flash slide show on my home page...I have images from different galleries that I'd like to feature. I know I can "make a 2nd copy" of an image and then "move" the image to the gallery....but how about a "Move a copy of image (bulk)"? would be nice go browse through my galleries, see all the thumbnails, click on the ones I want to put in a featured gallery, and click "Move a copy of selected images to this gallery:"
If someone has a better idea to help me, I'm all for those suggestions too.
Thanks!
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here's an example of why: Police K9 Trial
I shot at the local police k9 competition...38 competitors. These were not galleries that they wanted open to everyone so they are password protected. The competitors will want to look at their own galleries, and those of the other competitors. In order to separate them, I had to create a category for the event and a separate gallery for each competitor. Each individual gallery is password protected and kind of a pain to go from one gallery to the other and enter passwords.
Would be the same for weddings...I create a sub-category for each couple like HERE then I can separate photos from the event.....i.e. a gallery of formal pics taken, a gallery of just the ceremony, a gallery of the reception, etc.
Password protecting a category or subcategory would allow access to all those areas at one time. If you wanted to further password just a gallery, then that could be done too.
Again, just my .02
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I'm not arguing against the convenience of password protected categories (I would use it if it was available), but the work-around works pretty well and that's what I use.
If you create a category, then create a bunch of galleries all with the same password in that gallery, then feature a photo in each gallery (to get rid of the lock icon image) it gives you almost everything a password protected category would give you. When a user comes to the category, they see all the gallery icons. When they open the first gallery, they are challenged for the password. They can then open all the other galleries with the same password without being challenged again for the password. They only have to enter the password once.
You can simplify creating all the galleries with the same password by either using a Smugmug template to create them, using StarExplorer to bulk create them all with the same settings or by using SmugBrowser to set all the galleries the same way after the fact.
After you've set up this work-around, the only additional feature you would get with true password-protected categories would be that you'd be challenged for the password before you could even see the galleries names. In the work-around, you are allowed to see the gallery names before being challenged for a password. This hasn't been an issue for my uses.
Try it, it works pretty well. Not as convenient to set up as a true category password, but works nearly as well.
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I currently have most of my galleries set up to allow the viewer to choose the style. The reason I've done that is that I like to have both smugmug style and slideshow available (not the full-screen slideshow, don't like that one!).
What I'd really like to do is to lock the galleries to smugmug style and have the added option in lightbox to automatically advance through the photos.
It seems that would give me the best of both worlds, smugmug style to quickly glance through the photos in a gallery, and an automated advance in lightbox. With the addition of smugmungous / stretchy, I think that lightbox gives the nicest presentation of the photos for a viewer who wants to step through each photo in a gallery.
I've toyed wtih creating shadow galleries to display the photos via the Shizam slide show, but I really don't want to create a shadow of each gallery, and the slide show doesn't appear to give me a way to have the photos size to fit the screen the way that lightbox does.
Sample gallery with shadow, links in the description to jump between the galleries:
Shizam slideshow: http://www.denisegoldberg.com/gallery/4110500
--- Denise
Musings & ramblings at https://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com
I think it would be nice to make all IPTC metadata that comes in with an image available for searching and display. Perhaps the Info window could show Basic, Detailed and "Geek Level" or something.
I don't know if this has been requested before, if it has, consider this as vote for it. I would like to have a way to download multiple images at once, maybe whole albums or even whole categories. Is this possible? Does Smugmug have a stance on this? Is this feature under development? What do other dgrinners think about this?
http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/Hacks+and+Apps
AlbumFetcher and SmugDav that will allow you to do this already, whole galleries at once when logged in.
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Just spent a very frustrating 15 minutes trying to figure out how to post EXIF data from one of my images to a forum. Had to come over here, search the forum until I found the work-around of putting your gallery into thumbnail view and click on exif and then copying the URL referenced in the pop-up.
Would be a lot simpler if it was a line on the Share page (where it shows the URL for galleries, slideshows, various sizes of a single image.)
Thanks for listening.
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http://wiki.smugmug.com/display/SmugMug/How+To+See+Exif
I want it on the share page, too
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Hi Smugmug, I've been a loyal customer for years and hope to continue to be for years to come.
I would like to reiterate previous requests for supporting foreign languages throughout the website. I was browsing the forum and have read that you have Unicode-8 supported for certain sections, and that's a great start, and hope you continue to work on it.
Also, I would like to request additional user-control over the captioning of each photo as well as galleries; similar to Zenfolio's method. For example, I hope to be able to control the sentence breaks, bolding, italics, etc.
My last request is about the layout, and that is to add the option of having a "blog-like" layout for those who want to create a simple blog gallery. For example, I would like to compose a photo essay of my trip; the main content is the essay, while the supporting content are the photos. Currently, you have a journal layout, where the user can write a paragraph for each photo. My idea is similar to that, but instead of adding text to each photo, let the text be the main focus and allow photos to be added to the text (essay). Please let me know if you need clarifications. And I do realize this is first a foremost a photo album website, but my request is not to have Smugmug be a blog service, but to just allow tweaks to the Journal interface to create a new, simple Blog (or Photo Essay) interface for those who want to use that feature.
Thanks.
This you can already do. Just enter a caption or gallery description and bracket it with two extra tags like: "<html>Your own HTML here</html>". This tells Smugmug that you are taking full responsibility for the formatting and it should not process line breaks, etc... You will find that there is a default CSS style for these elements (e.g. captions are bold by default) so if you have a power or pro account, you can also control that.
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I'd like to request that we can pay for prints etc with paypal
...pics..
A bulk function for hiding photos and un-hiding photo's would be very convenient. Thanks
Jonathan
Also, I would like to see international support in the areas of language, ordering, payment and viewing. I'm in Japan using Smugmug and I'm finding the schools are starting to use it and like the features.
There really isn't anything out there that compares to Smugmugs features that does work with both America and Japan.
And make keywords work with Kanji. I know there is a problem with the urls and keywords but it can be overcome.
Thanks
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Andy, thanks so much! I feel a bit foolish now seeing how easy it is to locate the link.
(Mind you, the Share page is still a better idea since we were there copying the URL of the image we wanted to post on a forum. So much easier if we could just switch windows/tabs and grab the EXIF link as well. <GRIN>)
Again, Andy, thanks for doing such a GREAT job!
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I noticed EXIF is only included in the original image. For all the pixel peepers out there, I'd like to request EXIF included in all image sizes.
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=77574
I know this feature request has been stated ad nauseum...but I have to chime in and say that this is my highest order request. To the point of needing to change over to another service, which I absolutely do not want to do.
I shoot primarily youth league action and events with some portrait work sprinkled in. Packages and coupons are a must have!!
As of right now, I'm having to offer my packages to my customers, they go to my website and write down the image numbers and sizes they want and I have to place the order for them. Needless to say this is a very unprofessional way to present my company.
I just landed our youth league T&I and Action contract (5-600 kiddos) as well as the Pop Warner league for next fall and have to figure out a solution immediately. Is this feature in the works?
If someone else has another workflow solution, for the time being, w/out having to leave SmugMug, I'm all ears.
Thanks to SM for their outstanding service. I'm otherwise quite pleased with you guys!
Thanks in advance.
Donnie
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Hi everyone,
Count me among the very satisfied SmugMuggers out there. I have been using the service for about a month and it has been great so far!
I do have a few feature requests, however....:D
1.) Bulk import of contacts from Gmail--I wish there was a way I could get all of my Gmail contacts into SM. I know Gmail can export them as .csv, so if I could just import them...it would save me a lot of time and hassle.
2.) Mailing lists/groups of contacts--for example, I would like to be able to click on one contact group and email my entire family instead of having to click each member separately when using the Share function.
3.) Bulk settings where you can change just one setting across multiple galleries without changing all of the other settings. For example, I would like to be able to bulk turn on and off printing without losing my other settings (like private, etc.) for the galleries that have unique settings.
Thanks for listening!
(1) Virtual Galleries - i.e. One 'real' photo, but can appear in different galleries
(2) A UK or European print lab and/or self-fulfillment via the Smugmug ordering system (would also need € pricing)
(3) Support for the €(euro) in the shopping cart
(4) Support for storing Raw images (Canon CR2 would do !)
(5) Improved bulk image manipulation e.g. deleting, moving etc
(6) A way to see the detailed image stats without mouse-over (which disappears after a few seconds anyway)
The first 3 or 4 items are the ones most likely to make me move from Smugmug - if I find somewhere else doing them. Z******o are almost there
Thanks otherwise for an excellent service.
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Is to have two separate areas to enter keywords or to have the account holders keywords not be able to be edited or deleted.
One is for the account holder - us
The second is for our clients where they can enter their own keyword to assist them in a search.
Right now I do not allow my customers the ability to edit keywords for fear they will screw up what I have already put in for keywords making my searches useless. I would love to have the option for my clients to enter their own keywords so they can come back and search for their own photos based on their entered keywords. This would be very beneficial for sports shooters.
I do not enter any racers names or numbers - just too tedious. My clients have no ability to tag photos as favorites so their only option is to do a search based on keywords, but I will not allow clients to access keywords for the reason mentioned above. If customers had their own ability to enter keywords in a separate field - would be useful. Or just easier would ve the avility for customers to tag photos a favorites.
Michael
As a very new Smugmug user the things that INSTANTLY annoy me are:
1. If I want the same photo to appear in multiple galleries, I have to either upload it twice (once to each gallery) or duplicate the photo then move it.
2. (This is the biggie) Managing categories, subcategories, galleries, and photos is INCREDIBLY PAINFUL. To create a category I have to go to one place, to create a subcategory I have to go to another place, to create a gallery I have to go to another place, to place an image where I want it to go I have to go to another place, etc etc. And if I want to move multiple galleries from one cat/subcat to another, it's crazy how difficult it is.
I use the comment space of some of my galleries to communicate back and forth with some of my customers that are out of my immediate area. (i.e. Senior Portraits I did for a gal that lives 3 hours from me....her and her mom are able to leave comments below the pictures and it makes it much easier for me to remember what images they have asked questions about or want to see touched up. They can leave comments to tell me which ones they do/don't like, etc.)
It would be nice to somehow have a message that pops up on my homepage (just for me when I'm logged in) that tells me I have new comments. I think something like that happens when there is new "news"? It would help to remind me that I need to check and see what my customers are wanting.
Thanks for your time & thoughts.
Also...a plug for a past request of mine....bulk copy! or even "copy gallery"! Better yet....bulk copy and move....all at the same time. So that when I upload images to smugmug into a gallery, I can choose my few favorites from that gallery, bulk copy and move them into the gallery I use for my slideshow...kind of my "best of" gallery.
Thanks again!
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