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MM feature: Private Albums

Sharing helps make this world a better place. But let’s be honest, sometimes it’s important to keep things for yourself or just share with a select group of friends.


Photo: Epona, Model: Tatiana Temptation

Model Mayhem is now giving you this option with your photos – private albums. The intent here is to give members the option of making an album of photos only visible to a select group of people—and you select what group that is.

Why would you want such a feature? Perhaps you are currently collaborating with a small group on a shoot that you’ve just done. With a private album you can invite those involved in the shoot to give open and honest feedback about the photos without worrying that they’ll be seen by everyone in the universe. Or perhaps you’d just like to share a select group of photos with only Model Mayhem members rather than the random looky-loo. In either situation, making an album “private” enables you to limit the types of people seeing the photos inside.

How does it work?

Setting up a new folder and making it private:

  1. From your MyStuff page, click on the link to Manage Photos
  2. Near the top of the page, you’ll see a link for Organize Photos
  3. On the Organize Photos page, in the upper right is a link for New Album
  4. Assign a name to your new folder
  5. Click the Private check box and then select which group you’d like to give access to:
    1. Members only  – only people signed in to their Model Mayhem profiles will be able to view the photos.
    2. Friends only – only those listed as your friends will be able to view the photos.
    3. Password – you’ll be asked to create and confirm a password.  You can then distribute this password to those you’d like to have access to your folder.
  6. Click Create and you’ll see your new folder listed on the left hand side of your Organize Photos page
  7. Simply drag and drop the photos you’d like to be in this folder
  8. When you are done, click Save Changes

Making an existing folder private:

  1. From your Organize Photos page, click on one of your albums
  2. At the top of the set of pictures you’ll see the Privacy Options link
  3. Select which privacy option you’d like (see #5 above) and click Update

You can select a photo to represent your private album but this will only be visible to the group that has access to that album, otherwise viewers will see a generic album representation with an indication of who can view the album (e.g. Password Protected).

Who can use Private Albums?

The ability to make an album “private” is only available to Premium and VIP members. If you would like to use this feature you need to upgrade your account.

Premium members are allowed 1 private album and VIP members are allowed unlimited private albums. In either case, a private album still counts towards the total number of albums allowed based on your tier, and the photos within those albums still count towards your tier allotment.

This feature is the start of a set of features we hope to build to further enable collaboration right here on Model Mayhem. If you have other ideas, please feel free to let us know in the Site Related Forum.

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8 Responses to “MM feature: Private Albums”

  1. November 12, 2013 at 4:06 am, summertimecowboy said:

    how do you find the password you set for a private album when you forgot?

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  2. November 23, 2012 at 1:55 pm, LifeIsGreatImages said:

    I totally agree with Paul’s comment on the automatic “shady looking”
    cover image for a private folder. That style yells “Forbidden Fruit
    Within” which seems stupid if the goal is to keep images private. Why
    advertise a challenge to hackers and also to lurkers who will be alerted
    to look for images through other methods?

    I think that best
    solution would be to use whatever standard image MM might select, but
    give users the ability to replace it with a choice of their own. Not
    only would that remove most of the “shady looking” instances, it would
    also result in a variety of private cover images, thus making it more
    difficult for hackers / lurkers to find them.

    Creative cover
    images / folder names might arise such as: “Darkroom – Monitors must
    be Turned Off before Viewing”, “Photo Session Participants Only at
    this Time”, “Detour – Images Under Construction”, “Closed to the
    Public at this Time”, “Please Do Not Disturb – Editing In Process”, or
    more creative ones…

    Reply

  3. February 24, 2012 at 5:29 pm, Dandre l Ford said:

    How do change the name of a album?

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  4. October 31, 2011 at 8:11 pm, Paul said:

    I think this adds a certain amount of creepiness to MM. A shady looking character telling you “there’s nothing to see here – go away”. I think that this is supposed to be a portfolio showcase site, not a let’s create an account & hide everything site.

    IMO, if this is a must, it would be better if the album was simply “hidden” & only the member that owns the album would be able to give out the private link w/ password to those in whom they wish to give it to.

    I understand privacy from non-members, as the general public doesn’t need to see everything, if you don’t want them to, but members should be treated as contemporaries, not the general public.

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  5. October 30, 2011 at 4:44 pm, Herb Way said:

    I still haven’t seen anything that would persuade me to pay to be part of Model Mayhem.

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  6. October 29, 2011 at 8:56 pm, Kingsmedia said:

    Not sure I quite like this? Seems to follow the social network trend…..private albums Ehhh!

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  7. October 29, 2011 at 7:46 pm, Jamison A. Johnson said:

    I love it

    Reply

  8. October 29, 2011 at 2:43 am, Step Above Studios said:

    I have already started using the features and I am very pleased with them.

    Reply

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