Got a wedding? A party? A family reunion? Friday night at Dave's?
With a SmugMug account, you can easily let other party-goers upload their photos to one gallery on your site, just by using a special link. Perfect for pooling together your most candid moments from your big event!
Tip: This is great for lots of people uploading lots of photos. For individual images and easy captioning, try email uploads.
How it works:
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Open up your Gallery Settings and scroll down to the Security & Privacy section:
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Type a password into the "Upload Key" field. Your guests will be able to see what you enter here, so just make sure it's viewer-friendly.
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Save your changes on the page. Your Upload Key will be baked into a special link, like this:
Or, you can go back to your gallery, hit the Upload button and see that guest link in the bottom of the uploader:
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Share that link! Anyone who visits it will see our browser-based uploader where they can drag and drop files into your gallery… and only that gallery.
Anything else to know?
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Your guests can still upload files to galleries locked with passwords, but will still need to enter the viewing password before they can browse photos.
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Anyone with your upload link can upload files to that gallery. Be aware when you share! Or give them a deadline and change/remove the Upload Key by that date.
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Have your guests edit their files' captions using a photo editor like Lightroom, Picasa, iPhoto or Windows Photo Gallery. This way their words will automatically show up in the photo's caption field after upload.