Smug Tip of the Week: Quick Settings for Quick Setup
Lots of people have asked us: “Can I apply the gallery settings from one gallery to another? How do I apply certain settings when creating new galleries?”
Yes you can! The solution is Quick Settings.
Creating Quick Settings
These are really simple templates for your settings that you can create, save and apply to any gallery on your site. Here’s how to use them:
1) First, go to any gallery where you have your settings just the way you like, or edit the gallery settings to have your preferred settings, and save them.
2) Then, in the gallery settings under the Quick Settings section, choose “Save settings on this page as…” and then give your new Quick Setting a name.
Tip: Choose a name that is descriptive and relevant. Mention the watermark, your public/private settings, or your printing settings so you know what it is at a glance. For example, “Bottom watermark, No Share” is a much more useful name than just “New Quick Setting 1″.
3) After you give your Quick Setting a name, click Save.
Applying Quick Settings
Now that you have this Quick Setting saved, you can apply it to other galleries by opening that gallery’s Settings page, then choosing it from the drop-down list at the top:
Want to apply this Quick Setting to lots of galleries? Choose the “Apply Quick Settings to multiple galleries” link, which will let you pick which galleries and Quick Setting you want to use. Note that you can also delete that Quick Setting template by hitting the “delete template” button, visible once the setting is selected.
You can apply it to brand new galleries, too, before you even upload any photos. That option is right in the New Gallery box:
Got questions about this feature? Check out our help page or give our Heroes a shout. We’re always glad to lend a hand!
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This also works well with the Lightroom plug-in that I use.
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smugmug
When creating the album, I can then select the quick settings. Before I learned the trick you mentioned, I had more than one occasion where I forgot to protect my album when uploading and found that people had copied my shots before I remembered to go into the settings. Now I can easily select my “public, center watermak, protected” setting and be done.
Really valuable tip. Thanks Smuggers!
I’ve been using quicksettings for several years now. It’s the fastest way to have a gallery created and set up the way you want and to get to work. And you still have the option of changing anything you want in the gallery like usual.
And the best part is, like the example above shows, you can use an existing gallery to create your quicksetting. So if you have a certain format you like, turn it into a quicksetting for easy replication.
how do i delete a quick settings? I have created a few that i do not use any more.
Hi, just open up your gallery settings and then select the quick setting you want to delete. A button should appear next to it that says “Delete Template.” Hope this helps!
I have created and saved a number of Quick Setting Templates in SmugMug. In Lightroom, I have then selected Edit Gallery for each of my galleries and changed the Quick Setting to the applicable quick setting template from SmugMug; however, if I select “edit”, the window closes, but the template does not appear to be saved in the gallery settings. If I select Edit Gallery again, it has reverted back to a Quick Setting of “None”. I keep mistakenly uploading unprotected galleries with a max size of “original” so I have to get this sorted out. Does anyone have any advice?