Collect Photo concern

[groovyone]

If I am logged in to my SmugMug account, and open my friend's page, I can use the Collect Photo button to take his photos and save them into my galleries. He can do the same to mine, despite the fact I have mine set to protected.

Is there a way to prevent this or can anyone on my SmugMug friend's list have at my photos?

[groovyone]

To test this I used teh "Collect Photo" on a friend with a Pro account, saved it to my own gallery, sent the link to a coworker who is on my friends list, and he was able to save it without the watermark.

Is there a way to make it so collect photo only works for the site owner?? I use it to create highlight galleries, but I don't want that to open up my images to my friends list, or anyone for that matter.

[groovyone]

One more test. I kicked my coworker off my list, and he cannot collect my photos now, BUT he can still collect the one I pulled off my friend's pro site.

Even worse, he was able to "collect" a photo from my friend's Pro site, and he is NOT on his SmugMug friends list.

[groovyone]

In an attempt to be more clear.

Coworker = D
Pro Friend = C
Me = K

D and K are friends, C and K are friends, C and D are NOT

D can collect photos from K's protected galleries and save them on D's site and vice versa

K can collect C's protected and watermarked photos and save them on K's site, watermark in tact. K can DOWNLOAD the photo collected from C WITHOUT THE WATERMARK.

D can collect C's photo from K's page and save without watermarks

When I (K) took D off my friends list he couldn't collect photos from the test gallery EXCEPT he could still collect C's photo from K's page.

D can collect C's photo DIRECT FROM C's page (NOT FRIENDS) and save it on D's page AND download it without the watermark.

[groovyone]

Talked to Andy from SmugMug. The issue was not as bad as I thought, but BE AWARE, if you have Collect Photo turned on AND External Links ON people can use "Collect Photo" on YOUR photos, and if the Originals are unlocked they can download the photo.

help - Collect photos into your galleries


You can DISABLE under SETTINGS:
[quote=smugmug]Site-wide Features (Where to find Gallery Features)
Email Alerts > SmugNews: No | Comments: No &bull change

Allow Collecting >Enabled Disabled (What's this?)
[quote]

This will NOT diable YOUR ability to collect YOUR photos.