Hide Photo Feature Unveiled
* SmugMug introduces selective viewing control over your individual photos. Using the new ‘hide photo’ check box, you can choose which photos can be seen in a gallery while ‘hiding’ others from the world. This simple-to-use feature enables even greater control over your photos and how they are displayed. Read more here.
* SmugMug’s Usage Stats feature has been overhauled to produce more accurate numbers. Views by ‘logged-in’ gallery owners will no longer register a ‘hit’ on the counters.
* If Steve read Don’s Blog entry, “This is your Mac on drugs,” he hasn’t given us any hint of it, so, at least when it comes to images on SmugMug, we’ve undertaken the task of at least partially fixing the color eccentricities on Macs ourselves. We are now attaching the sRGB profile to display copies larger than Thumbs (-S, -M, -L, -XL, -X2, -X3) . Now your photos will look the same no matter what platform you view them on.
Fixed Assorted bugs including:
* Made it so the site is compatible with this week’s update to the popular Firefox addon, NoScript.
* Help pages were failing to print properly: fixed
December 29th, 2007 at 8:09 am
One small suggestion. White on black is great for photos, but VERY hard to read the text of the blogs.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:59 am
I think your attachment of sRGB profiles is doing something to my images upon import that was not happening last week when I uploaded the same exact “unedited” files with no issues. If it were a Mac gamma issue as you describe, this would have shown up on my uploads last week. My files are sRGB and gamma is correct. What I am seeing on my calibrated screen in two different editing programs IS NOT matching what I see after upload (it was last week). The only thing that has changed between this and last week is this new sRGB functionality that you’ve added, so I have to think the issue is a Smug Mug one?
-Dan
December 29th, 2007 at 10:31 am
I did verify that my gamma was set to 2.2-native all along (I use mac). I re-calibrated and set to 2.2-6500. Upload problem still exists.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Hi Daniel, I got your messages at the help desk, too - we’ll carry on there. Thanks!
December 30th, 2007 at 1:02 am
This is creepy! Have you guys taken up mind reading? Just the other day I was thinking about suggesting a feature to hide individual photos and to exclude my own hits from the stats page. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that checkbox appear under my photos today. Thanks for constantly improving SmugMug!
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 am
The hide photos feature *almost* solves my biggest issue with Smugmug. I often have photos that I’d love to show my family and close friends, but do not want to show the general public. How about making it so the “hidden” photos can be seen by friends and family?
January 7th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Yay! I have been wanting the individual control over picture visibility as well as the ability to exclude my own hits from the stats for a long time now. I do agree with Rourke, however — it would be great to be able to make individual photos selectively visible. One way to do this may be to add a new protection level for galleries which causes only the hidden photos within the galleries to be protected. Thanks for always improving things!