SmugMug Feature Requests

photobrando · October 22, 2008

Prices, Setting Prices, Price Sheet
Perhaps it's just me, but when viewing the price list page, to set prices for a gallery, the page looks like a screen door.

Is it at all possible to have the size of the prints broken up from one another by a space of nothing? Looking at that price sheet makes my eyes go cross. I'm thinking:
4x6 Gloss
4x6 Metallic
4x6 Matte
4x6 Lustre
***Space***
5x7 Gloss
5x7 Metallic
5x7 Matte
5x7 Lustre
***Space***

It would also be nice if the price sheet was categorized from cheapest to priciest per what we are charged from EZ Prints.

I hope this could be done. That would be super awesome!

Andy · October 23, 2008

Thanks for the suggestion!

Andy · October 23, 2008

Wingr wrote:

Hi,

I've seen this asked in several ways but I haven't been able to find an answer. I would like to have watermarks show up on the larger size images, not on the regular album size image. Can this be a feature?

Thanks!
Chris

What's a 'regular album size' image? We have 8 display copies: http://www.smugmug.com/help/display-quality

We watermark all 8, you can choose to have the watermark on the thumbs or not.

Sorry it's not possible to say which of the others get it or not.

Wingr · October 23, 2008

Having an option to treat the medium size just like the thumbs would be nice. It is less likely for someone to take this size to print it for other uses. They could still put it on another site as their own image, but some that do that don't even remove the watermark/copyright stamps. At least viewers could look a smaller, clean image to review before choosing to purchase it.

Regards,
Chris
http://kuiphoff.smugmug.com/

Andy wrote:

What's a 'regular album size' image? We have 8 display copies: http://www.smugmug.com/help/display-quality

We watermark all 8, you can choose to have the watermark on the thumbs or not.

Sorry it's not possible to say which of the others get it or not.

JohnBiggs · October 24, 2008

OHHH PLEASE!!!!

Please add a checkbox to the 'move to another gallery' feature to make a new copy instead of move. Its so many steps to first copy the image, write down all the image numbers you made copies of, then move then images.

agallia · October 24, 2008

JohnBiggs wrote:

OHHH PLEASE!!!!

Please add a checkbox to the 'move to another gallery' feature to make a new copy instead of move. Its so many steps to first copy the image, write down all the image numbers you made copies of, then move then images.

Good idea! But, to avoid confusion on 'move" tool, suggest just adding a new tool that says 'copy to another gallery' and leave 'move' tool as is.

Robinivich · October 24, 2008

I just ordered my first batch of smugmug prints, and I was thinking a little more information would be helpful when choosing shipping options, and also with regards to the confirmation e-mail. Like giving estimated ship times and waybills (if available), especially for those of us outside the US

Thanks!

JPWhite · October 26, 2008

Add downloads to statistics
Can we have a record of the number of downloads are made on the statistics pages?

Thanks

JP

Andy · October 26, 2008

JPWhite wrote:

Can we have a record of the number of downloads are made on the statistics pages?

Thanks

JP

What downloads are you referring to?

agallia · October 26, 2008

Map This - Open in new window?
Map This is a great feature...but has one problem. It needs to open in a new window, not same window. Now, when a viewer clicks on Map This while browsing a gallery, there is obvious way to get back to the gallery. Sure, they can usually get back via the browser toolbar "back" button, but many casual viewers may not readily think of this.

Simply having the Map open in a new window easily solves the problem.
Also, adding a "back to gallery" button on the Map would do it too.

twincitiesphoto · October 27, 2008

ian408 wrote:

Have a look at thread. Though it doesn't give you the lens used, it does give you the focal length as described in the EXIF info.

Is that something you could use?

Ian408 - thanks for the info - but since your idea is limited to FireFox browswers - it wasn't quite what I'd like to see - but thanks.

lucasaus · October 28, 2008

Coupons, mailing list, special offers
Hi out there, I know this has been mentioned before, but my take on it is a little different perhaps.

As regards coupons, I would like to be able to create:
- One coupon code that is reusable, perhaps for a percentage off (like a 10% off), that can be used by many people (repeatable)
- One coupon code like the above, that has a limited date validity, that can be used by many people (repeatable)
- One coupon code that is a one-use only, and deletes itself after its used by someone
- A range of unique coupon codes that are created in bulk, and all have the same options as above - either with limited date availability, or permanently available, but that expire (die) after being used once..

Ideally any of the above coupons could be special offers, like buy 3 get 10% off, or buy 4 get the 5th free, or they could be for one free print of their choice (cost covered by photographer), or even more handy, a coupon for one free digital download of their choice (to spark some interest)..

To wrap all this together, I would like to be able to have a mailing list controller, have people signing up to my special offer mailing list on my smugmug page (and maybe have an applet so they can sign up on other pages, like my personal website), and from there be able to email any of the above coupons to my email list.

Especially useful would be the ability to create a bulk set of one-use coupon codes and have the system email one code to each person on my mailing list.. wow that'd be cool.

I'd also love to have a buy 4 get one free, buy 3 get 10% off, etc, kind of flexibility.

These things are the sorts of things my web development clients want and need on their osCommerce (and other assorted shopping cart websites), and really to be selling from SmugMug is basically to be using it as an alternative to using an alternate shopping cart system, so I would love to see this sort of functionality mirrored.

And last but not least on the wishlist, a Facebook App which would let me Facebook message each of my friends with a bulk-generated, unique, one-use coupon code and a friendly message to go with it, along with a link to my site. Now that'd be some nice integrated marketing.

Thanks for listening!!

foreveryoungphoto · October 28, 2008

Thando wrote:

Got an idea? Give it to us here. All of the SmugMug crew read this thread so feel free to share your ideas. Go ahead, give us the requests.

Here are mine:

~ Tool that customers could do side by side comparisons of photographs.
~ Customers could choose to order a color image printed as black and white or sepia.
~ Ability to make a customized ULR for each gallery. For example smithwedding.smugmug.com instead of the crazy long URLs for some galleries.
~ Ability to give gift certificates to clients that they could add in a coupon code, discount code for their order.
~ more tutorials about customizing your site to make it look unique.

Thanks!

redshadow01 · October 29, 2008

Bulk deletion of photos tagged as "hidden"
Just got an answer in the support forum saying this is not possible, so here it is as a feature request.

I would like a function where I can press one button for a gallery to see and be able to delete all images marked as "hidden"

Thank you,
red

brandofamily · November 2, 2008

How about make the new "Buy" button drop downs match the style of the flyout on the SM style.... Also how about making the width of the dropdown match the button width? That way I would not have to try to hack it and drive myself nuts....

nantena · November 2, 2008

lucasaus wrote:

Hi out there, I know this has been mentioned before, but my take on it is a little different perhaps.

Thanks for listening!!

I think my request is along the same lines of yours, I would like to see photographer gift certificates or print vouchers that we can set for a specific amount and give to our customers to order with. I like to include print vouchers with portrait and wedding packages, and it would be easier to give them a code to use in checkout rather than have to take a seperate order to fulfill package prints.

RogersDA · November 5, 2008

Right now you can only make a copy of the current image. Then, you have to do that for multiple images. But you can move multiple images to one or more galleries at one time.

It would be nice to have the ability to choose multiple images and have an option to create copies of these images into another gallery rather than have a multiple-stepped process.

digismile · November 5, 2008

agallia wrote:

Map This is a great feature...but has one problem. It needs to open in a new window, not same window. Now, when a viewer clicks on Map This while browsing a gallery, there is obvious way to get back to the gallery. Sure, they can usually get back via the browser toolbar "back" button, but many casual viewers may not readily think of this.
Simply having the Map open in a new window easily solves the problem.

Also, adding a "back to gallery" button on the Map would do it too.

In windows, you can actually open the Map This! in a new window by holding the shfit key when you click (this works on any weblink that normally does not open a new tab or worksheet). Don't know if it works the same on a Mac.

agallia · November 5, 2008

digismile wrote:

In windows, you can actually open the Map This! in a new window by holding the shfit key when you click (this works on any weblink that normally does not open a new tab or worksheet). Don't know if it works the same on a Mac.

Thanks, Brad. And holding the "control" key opens in another tab. But doubt if most "visitors" know that or remember it anyway. Still would be very nice to implement my suggestion in some form.

agallia · November 5, 2008

Suggestion for Copy feature upgrade

RogersDA wrote:

Right now you can only make a copy of the current image. Then, you have to do that for multiple images. But you can move multiple images to one or more galleries at one time.

It would be nice to have the ability to choose multiple images and have an option to create copies of these images into another gallery rather than have a multiple-stepped process.

Hi, David. Please see my post #217 this thread on this subject. Suggestion for feature upgrade

Tools/This Photo - Suggest adding a "Copy to Gallery" tool.
Tools/Many Photos - Suggest adding "Copy to Gallery" and "Copy to Multiple Galleries" tools.

Hope Smugmug team can do!

HaraldE · November 5, 2008

Sound Recordings stored in Smugmug
Morning,

Today I use Smugmug to store my archive of images. Later on I will have a go on film. I also need a place to store my Sound Recordings and would very much like to have them also in Smugmug ... all in one place.

So my feature request is a possibility to store also the media of sound

Regards, Harald

darryl · November 6, 2008

HaraldE wrote:

Morning,

Today I use Smugmug to store my archive of images. Later on I will have a go on film. I also need a place to store my Sound Recordings and would very much like to have them also in Smugmug ... all in one place.

So my feature request is a possibility to store also the media of sound

Regards, Harald

Hi Harald. You can store sound files. It's not included with your regular SmugMug membership though. SmugMug recently started a service called SmugVault for storing files of any type:

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

darryl · November 6, 2008

agallia wrote:

Map This is a great feature...but has one problem. It needs to open in a new window, not same window. Now, when a viewer clicks on Map This while browsing a gallery, there is obvious way to get back to the gallery. Sure, they can usually get back via the browser toolbar "back" button, but many casual viewers may not readily think of this.
Simply having the Map open in a new window easily solves the problem.

Also, adding a "back to gallery" button on the Map would do it too.

Al -- what browser are you using?

I just tested this with Firefox 3, IE 7, and Chrome. In Firefox and Chrome, clicking on "Map This" opened up the map in an new tab.

In IE 7, a new window was opened for the map.

I have not changed any of the defaults for opening windows/tabs.

darryl · November 6, 2008

Allen wrote:

Add another option to the photo tools. "Copy this photo to other gallery". It
would be for the single photo so no bulk abuse would be involved. But would
be faster then the confusing making 2nd copy and moving.

Uber-Thread for "Copy To Gallery" / "Virtual Gallery" Feature Request:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=110537

darryl · November 6, 2008

Keyboard Shortcuts for Hide, Crop, Delete, Replace, etc.
SmugMug should implement single-key shortcuts a la Lightroom (hello Wade) or Gmail keyboard shortcuts. If you're in a gallery and you're not in a text input field, the keyboard shortcuts would be "live".

You can already flip through your photos quickly with the left- and right-arrow keys. You can also go forward and backwards through pages of thumbnails by holding down shift and using left/right arrows (cool, huh)?

Even cooler would be if the "H" key hid the photo you were currently looking at.

And how great would it be if "D" prompted you to delete the photo, and if instead of taking you to a completely different page, it simply popped up an overlaid window to confirm it (OK or Cancel).

Think about how quickly you could whiz through an album, hiding and deleting images, thereby saving SmugMug valuable bandwidth and storage!

"R" could fire up Replace, "A" would take you to Arrange, "C" would Crop, and so on.

Please discuss this feature in this separate thread, lest your comments get buried here.

Andy · November 6, 2008

darryl wrote:

lest your comments get buried here.

Curious how you feel that comments are 'buried' here in the sticky Feature Requst thread, that we all subscribe to, and from which we've gotten many, many awesome features from over the years?

RogersDA · November 6, 2008

agallia wrote:

Hi, David. Please see my post #217 this thread on this subject. Suggestion for feature upgrade
Tools/This Photo - Suggest adding a "Copy to Gallery" tool.

Tools/Many Photos - Suggest adding "Copy to Gallery" and "Copy to Multiple Galleries" tools.

Hope Smugmug team can do!

Yeah - I have seen this request many times. Heck, I have probably posted in the past, too. Just adding my $0.02 to this request.

jfriend · November 6, 2008

Andy wrote:

Curious how you feel that comments are 'buried' here in the sticky Feature Requst thread, that we all subscribe to, and from which we've gotten many, many awesome features from over the years?

The thing I don't like about posting in this thread is that it's impossible to have a focused discussion about a single topic in this thread. After all, by defintion, this thread is conglomeration of a zillion topics.

It's also impossible to have a meaningful thread topic line that will attract other people to comment on your posting because the thread topic line is already fixed for the feature request thread and it's generic. If people aren't "in" to reading all the feature requests, they will never see your posting.

I get that you're trying to make it easy for Smugmug employees who don't regularly read forum postings to browse feature requests and I suppose that's a good thing, but certainly you can also understand why some people want to have their own focused conversation about a new feature that isn't interleaved with all the other postings in this thread and somewhat "hidden" in the forum because it doesn't have it's own thread subject line in the forum.

Andy · November 6, 2008

jfriend wrote:

The thing I don't like about posting in this thread is that it's impossible.

You could do like Darryl did, and start a discussion and then put a pointer or dupe here... otherwise, I'm moving the Feature Request here

Thanks!

jfriend · November 6, 2008

Andy wrote:

You could do like Darryl did, and start a discussion and then put a pointer or dupe here... otherwise, I'm moving the Feature Request here

Thanks!

Yep, that's what I've done on occasion. You asked what how we could every not like to have our full discussion in the feature requests thread, so I was answering that question.

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