How do I see the photos that have been thumbed as favorites?

Question

Visitors to my site have thumbed up photos that they like. I need to see those photos to build a book for them. Where do I see the photos with votes?

Answer 1

You cannot view photos that have been thumbed up. Smugmug uses that data internally, but does not make it available to anyone.

If you want a specific visitor to identify a list of photos for you, there are several options:

• You can create an event, put the gallery in the event and let your visitors use favorites to pick/identify specific images.
• You can put some unique identification (number, name, code, etc...) into each image caption and have the visitor record a list of those values and give it to you.
• You can ask the visitor to record the image numbers in the gallery (it's the number right above the photos). This option works as long as you don't change the gallery sort or add images to the gallery that don't go at the end of the gallery. And, viewers sometimes get confused about which image to re

Answer 2

Of the three answers that jfriend offered I can tell you that the event works very well, especially with the Lightroom integration to "sync down" the selected favorites. I used the event on my first shoot for a client and it worked great. All of the people were able to see all the images and then select their favorite. I was pleasantly surprised at how easily it worked.

Answer 3

If you apply a keyword to all the images you can then goto a keyword view sorted by popularity. Images that have not had any thumbs up or comment reviews or facebook likes etc will not be in the resulting view. It's an imperfect way of getting the resulting images, but it's a very good start, and a workable solution to the "oh, I forgot to create an event for them, and disable ranking in that gallery." situation where they tell you they've marked all their favorite images with thumbs up.