Online Image Bank

Mattsahib

Hi,

I am new to SmugMug. I shoot professionally for many NGOs. One of my clients has asked me to set up a image bank that all their offices throughout the world can access and download images for advertisements, brochures etc.. So I need a site that can show of galleries of images, keyword, maybe group regionally. I like the ability to rank the images. One new idea someone had was the ability to geotag their images from all around the globe. They want it private and secure. The site needs to have the ability to be accessed by several offices. Can SmugMug offer this?

Matt Brandon
thedigitaltrekker.com

Barb

Mattsahib wrote:

Hi,

I am new to SmugMug. I shoot professionally for many NGOs. One of my clients has asked me to set up a image bank that all their offices throughout the world can access and download images for advertisements, brochures etc.. So I need a site that can show of galleries of images, keyword, maybe group regionally. I like the ability to rank the images. One new idea someone had was the ability to geotag their images from all around the globe. They want it private and secure. The site needs to have the ability to be accessed by several offices. Can SmugMug offer this?

Matt Brandon
thedigitaltrekker.com

Hi Matt

In reading your requirements, I do believe we can offer them. You might want to take a look at our price page, which will explain the three levels of accounts we offer, their prices, and features:

http://www.smugmug.com/price/

We do have a ranking system available:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/search-online-photo-album

We also offer the ability to geotag photos and show them on a map:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/maps

All of our accounts give you the option of making your galleries public, private, or password protected.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-albums

As for privacy and security, see our help page on SmugIslands here:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-search-island

If you have further questions, be sure and let us know.

Allen

Mattsahib wrote:

Hi,

I am new to SmugMug. I shoot professionally for many NGOs. One of my clients has asked me to set up a image bank that all their offices throughout the world can access and download images for advertisements, brochures etc.. So I need a site that can show of galleries of images, keyword, maybe group regionally. I like the ability to rank the images. One new idea someone had was the ability to geotag their images from all around the globe. They want it private and secure. The site needs to have the ability to be accessed by several offices. Can SmugMug offer this?

Matt Brandon
thedigitaltrekker.com

Welcome to Dgrin

Sounds like the Smug has all you want and a Power level is all you need.

The site could be locked down with a site wide password.
You could create categories for each region or office, Power level required for this.
You could create sub-categories for each type of photo.
Originals could be downloaded.
Add keywords to photos for easy selection.
Rank photos with the popular photo listing.
Geotag photos. View by gallery or homepage. Problem might be there is a
150 limit from any gallery or homepage. Work-around is save the geo file
from each gallery and import all the klm files to GoogleEarth. No limit then.
Probably missing a few other things.

Mattsahib

Sounds great. One other thought. Can SmugMug handle Raw files?

Matt

Barb

Mattsahib wrote:

Sounds great. One other thought. Can SmugMug handle Raw files?

Matt

Hi Matt,

No raw files, sorry This page shows our support file types and sizes:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photos

Mattsahib

Barb wrote:

Hi Matt,

No raw files, sorry This page shows our support file types and sizes:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photos

Bummer, but I guess it is not the end of the world. Di you know any sites using SM like what I am wanting to do?

Thanks for all your help.

Matt

Mattsahib

Allen wrote:

Welcome to Dgrin
Work-around is save the geo file from each gallery and import all the klm files to GoogleEarth. No limit then.

Is there a page that tells me how to do this? I looked through the Map help and did not find anything.

Matt

Allen

Mattsahib wrote:

Is there a page that tells me how to do this? I looked through the Map help and did not find anything.

Matt

If you click available feeds at the bottom of a page and then click
GoogleEarth, a save box will come up for the Google Earth KML file.
Save this to your GoogleEarth profile folder. Then in GoogleEarth open the
file and it will be added to your places sidebar.

Mattsahib

Allen wrote:

If you click available feeds at the bottom of a page and then click
GoogleEarth, a save box will come up for the Google Earth KML file.
Save this to your GoogleEarth profile folder. Then in GoogleEarth open the
file and it will be added to your places sidebar.

Thanks. Very cool!! I think I will tell them to buy a pro membership to SmugMug. But just before I do this, I have one last (?) question. When guest long on and upload images, do they wait for some sort of approval? go to a default gallery? or do you have some control over it?


Matt

Barb

Mattsahib wrote:

Thanks. Very cool!! I think I will tell them to buy a pro membership to SmugMug. But just before I do this, I have one last (?) question. When guest long on and upload images, do they wait for some sort of approval? go to a default gallery? or do you have some control over it?


Matt

If they are using our Guest password feature, they simply log on and upload to any of your galleries.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/guest-passwords

When you upload images yourself to your account, they are uploaded and appear almost instantly. You create galleries and upload directly to those galleries.

If I'm missing the point of your question, please let me know!

Mattsahib

Barb wrote:

If they are using our Guest password feature, they simply log on and upload to any of your galleries.

http://www.smugmug.com/help/guest-passwords

When you upload images yourself to your account, they are uploaded and appear almost instantly. You create galleries and upload directly to those galleries.

If I'm missing the point of your question, please let me know!

No, you got the point. What I want to do is keep everyone in this company from loading images in any gallery. I want them to load to a processing bin or folder where I can edit and cull out the bad images and place them where I think they should go. But I still want them to be able to view all the galleries. Make since?

By the way, I am now only getting the map feature on my home page not on the gallery page? Why would that happen?

Matt

Allen

Mattsahib wrote:

No, you got the point. What I want to do is keep everyone in this company from loading images in any gallery. I want them to load to a processing bin or folder where I can edit and cull out the bad images and place them where I think they should go. But I still want them to be able to view all the galleries. Make since?

By the way, I am now only getting the map feature on my home page not on the gallery page? Why would that happen?

Matt

The "map this" button will only show in galleries that have photos tagged.

There is an email feature where anyone can send photos, no need to log in. They upload to a
gallery named "email" where you could cull and move to an appropriate gallery.

Mattsahib

Allen wrote:

The "map this" button will only show in galleries that have photos tagged.

There is an email feature where anyone can send photos, no need to log in. They upload to a
gallery named "email" where you could cull and move to an appropriate gallery.

The email folder! What a great idea! Well done SmugMug. I assume I can read up on this in some help menu. About Geotagging, I geo coded several shots. I had it working on my personal trial. But once I set up the companies site, I can only get it working on the home page.

Matt

Barb

Mattsahib wrote:

The email folder! What a great idea! Well done SmugMug. I assume I can read up on this in some help menu. About Geotagging, I geo coded several shots. I had it working on my personal trial. But once I set up the companies site, I can only get it working on the home page.

Matt

Hi Matt,

Here is our help page on email uploading:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/camera-phones

Be sure to check your security settings for your map to work:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-search-island

Mattsahib

Hey Barb,

I bought the pro subscription. But I did not get a receipt, all I got was this email:

Hi KSCreative,

Many thanks for completing your trial and purchasing a SmugMug subscription!
This email serves as your receipt.

You purchased a Professional subscription (and received a discount of $29.99) for $119.96.

You can always upgrade, downgrade, cancel, or change your billing information by
logging in and visiting your control panel.

Need help? www.smugmug.com/help/acctbills to the rescue.

All the best,
Chris & Don MacAskill
Owners, Photographers, Regular Guys

I need to be reimbursed. Have I missed something here? I when to the link but nothing about getting a receipt for the purchase.

-Matt

Barb

Mattsahib wrote:

Hey Barb,

I bought the pro subscription. But I did not get a receipt, all I got was this email:



I need to be reimbursed. Have I missed something here? I when to the link but nothing about getting a receipt for the purchase.

-Matt

Hi Matt,

Give me one sec, and I will email one to you

Barb

Mattsahib wrote:

Hey Barb,

I bought the pro subscription. But I did not get a receipt, all I got was this email:



I need to be reimbursed. Have I missed something here? I when to the link but nothing about getting a receipt for the purchase.

-Matt

Matt,

Receipt is on it's way to you to the email address on your account.

Mattsahib

Barb wrote:

Matt,

Receipt is on it's way to you to the email address on your account.

Thanks got it!