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Send email from my domain
It would be far better to have emails sent from my domain than "Zenfolio [noreply@zenfoliomail.com]; on behalf of; CCG Creative Studios, LLC [sales@ccgcreativestudios.com]". This is simply not a very attractive presentation to the client. You've done a very nice job removing branding in most places for the Premium account, but this is a weak spot.
If Google Mail can figure out how to send email through my SMTP server by letting me set up credentials in the proper way, then surely the smart people at Zenfolio can find a way to do the same thing.
1,662 votesAdminZenAdmin (Supervisor, Zenfolio) responded
We have reviewed this, and while it’s not in our current roadmap for 2018, we will reassess again soon for future consideration.
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Improved Visitor stats
Currently the most popular Photos / Galleries leaves a lot to be desired. At the very least make it the top 10 most popular photos - but preferably have the chance to drill down on a per gallery basis. I know Google Analytics exists - but I'm not sure why we should need to sign up to an additional external account to find out info on our shots.
984 votesAdminZenAdmin (Supervisor, Zenfolio) responded
We have reviewed this, and while it’s not in our current roadmap for 2018, we will reassess again for future implementation. In the meantime, using sites like Google Analytics and StatCounter will help you gather the stats and insights you need. For information on adding tracking on GA: https://goo.gl/nsnVBa, and StatCounter: https://goo.gl/XYUDDU
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Add photos/graphics/attachments to email communications.
I love being able to have people enter their email to see photos so I can alert them to event sales, expirations and other sales generating correspondence. However, compared to services like Constant Contacts, ZF is just plain text...hardly appropriate in a photo driven business. Please add graphic and jpeg support. It will only put more money in your pockets when we sell more!
214 votes -
Search Bar in EDIT VIEW
Allow users to search for keywords, etc. in EDIT VIEW
167 votesAdminZenAdmin (Supervisor, Zenfolio) responded
This feature has been reviewed and given the current roadmap this will unfortunately be not able to happen in 2016. We will reassess at a later time.
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Option for no contrast increase in thumbnails
Thumbnails have a deliberate contrast increase to make them look "better". In fact, they make all my photos look worse. If I wanted more contrast, I'd add it myself. You are unable to judge what a full-size photo will look like from the thumbnail, and might not click the thumbnail thinking the full-size will look as bad.
How about an option to turn off the contrast increase for thumbnails?
149 votes -
Expand 2gb Limit on Video Uploads
Please remove (even at a premium) the 2gb video limit for video uploads.
This is crucial for the ever growing user base of hybrid photographers/VIDEOGRAPHERs that zenfolio attracts. Please make this a priority. Thank you.
132 votes -
SEO - Title tag
I believe we would get more incoming traffic if we when we add a title to our photos (which we currently can) that the < title > tag would reflect that title.
For example, Flickr does this. If I have a photo titled "Sunset over Pushaw" on flickr, the title tag reflects that. I've received many more hits from Flickr than I do with Zenfolio.
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Tag cloud
Searching for keywords would be better optimized if there was a "tag cloud" where viewers could just click a keyword as opposed to typing it. This is a common feature on many photo websites already. This would greatly enhance user experience by decreasing the amount of page navigations. Example http://www.amivitale.com/
111 votes -
Allow users to add custom categories/sub-categories for their own account
Categories and sub-categories seem to be a constant problem because everyone wants to categorize their photographs differently. Some categorize by subject (of which there are conceivably thousands), others categorize by theme (like the user that requested "History" and "Vintage").
The solution of continuously adding more and more categories/sub-categories isn't very effective either. One of two things will happen:
A) Users will eventually have to sift through far too many categories/sub-categories to find what they want. It will get to a point where any given user must sift through many times more categories that are useless to them than those that…
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Copy entire groups
I would like to be able to copy entire groups/folders with sub-groups, galleries, text, captions, etc., into a different group/folder. At present, I have to re-create every folder, sub-folder, and gallery, then select all photos in each individual gallery and copy over to the corresponding gallery I've created. While individual photo captions transfer, I must also manually transfer all folder and gallery names and captions. Very time consuming.
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integrating Zenfolio with a client management system.
I feel like organizing client files is the bane of the existence of every photographer. Programs like ShootQ and (the oh-so slowly released) Tave are great, but only so much as they integrate well with what the photographer actually uses and loves (and Zenfolio is hands down the best client proofing software out there). If Zenfolio is ready to take on a new project (cause this would take a lot of manpower) creating or intergrating with a system that truly is a one stop shop for photographers to manage leads, workflows, payments, schedules and tasks, we as a photography community…
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Customization of Order Confirmation emails and independent vendor shipping customization
The capability to customize order confirmation emails would be extremely beneficial in allowing us to make sure the appropriate information is going to the customer.
Also, when using vendors outside of zenfolio vendors (i.e. self-fulfillment) the option for complete shipping customization needs to be made available.
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Addition of security options on user accounts
I have a number of contributing photographers and wish to review their uploads before going live with them. Currently they can upload anything to their gallery and change the folder to public and assign a price list.
While there has been some major improvements on zenfolio, there is a real requirement for some access control toggles for user accounts or galleries
The following would be a few suggestions:
1) Allow viewing of all galleries or just the ones that have been authorized (also mentioned in other posts)
2) Have the ability to restrict the changing of price lists or allow…
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Supporting multiple domains to an account
I have a custom domain pointing to my zenfolio service. In order to have another domain name resolve to it i have to point the 2nd domain point to the first (at the DNS server level).
However if multiple domains could be pointed to the Zenfolio DNS server it would be a lot easier
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Mass replacement of photos. I'd like to be able to upload multiple photos to a gallery and have them replace photos with the same name.
Several times I've needed to replace all the photos in a gallery with new copies (with a different size, say). There is no easy way to do this. A workaround I've used is to delete all photos in the gallery and re-upload - but that removes the visitor stats on each photo.
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The ability to scale uploaded/graphic watermarks
Often times I create custom watermarks for clients events and I find that I have a hard time creating the perfectly sized watermark for zenfolio. If I make one, upload it to Zenfolio and see that it's too big/small, I then have to go back into Photoshop/other software, resize the image, re-export, and re-upload to Zenfolio and try again. It would be great if the ability to scale a particular watermark would be a feature in the "Edit Watermark" function box....right under Opacity
73 votes -
Password Protected Pages/PDF Files
I would like to be able to have links in the site menu have a password protected option. For example.I could upload my clients signed contract and password protect that file so only they could access it.A nested menu would make this easier as well so that I could list the portrait session and signed contract in the same menu system.
bigblackbag.com has this feature already.72 votes -
Watermarks for Videos
It would be great to have the chance to watermark videos, not just images.
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Social media sharing from a password protected gallery...
I want my clients to be able to have a password protected gallery, for the gallery and images to be private but if a client chooses to share one or a few of the images they can do so at their discretion. This means they make images public to their chosen social media site be it via Facebook or Twitter etc. Maybe add tick box to cover both Zenfolio/the photographer to say that they are about to share the image in a public domain? Then share that at an appropriate size with any watermark applied to the original gallery intact?…
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Increase 64MB file size to 100MB or more.
Right now in my Premium business account, I cannot upload a file more than 64MB in size. So even though print options offer 20"x 30" or even 30"x40", there is no way I could upload a file high res. enough to fulfill the requirements for those prints. Through PS, a good quality 20"x30" 8 bit file at 300ppi will most likely be over 100MB in a TIFF. This means I will have to self fulfill any orders over 12"x18", please resolve this.
39 votes
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