Improve photos interface on web

[teo5]

Dropbox makes it easy to auto-upload images from your mobile. However it's almost impossible to manag the photos once they are in Dropbox (unless you have room on your computer to sync all the photos, in which case why would I have uploaded them from my phone to Dropbox in the first place?? lol)

Today essentially all you can do is browse camera uploads by date, search photos by name, and manually group photos in folders. These are all extremely slow processes, it takes forever to load photo previews when scrolling, if you click on a photo it is slow to load, and when you go back to the photo list you go back to the *top* of the list so you have to go through the scrolling process again to get back to where you were. You can't search or filter by photo creation date, or other metadata like the location where the photo was taken. It doesn't seem like Dropbox is even trying, since they decided to kill Carousel.

So this suggestion is mainly to just make an effort, do a user-oriented design exercise for the photos experience for a user who: 

* takes photos on their phone

* uploads them to dropbox from their phone because they don't have enough room to store them all on their phone

* accesses them and manages them on the website because they don't have enough room to download them all to their computer

You guys are smart, I know you can figure out what needs to happen 😉 but if you want some more specific suggestions to start here are some:

* easily and quickly browse photos online by date (should be able to select a date without having to scroll; photo thumbnails for selected date should load within less than 2 seconds for user with decent internet connection; should be able to open a photo and then return directly back to the same place in the photo stream where you were)

* advanced photo search to find photos by filename, date, location, other metadata (if implementable, maybe also by face match, color, time of day, etc)

* easy method to send photos to desktop or mobile without downloading zip files (i.e. flag a photo for sync to desktop on the web interface and dropbox desktop will automatically download that photo)

* make basic edits within the web interface (crop, rotate)

* easily & quickly group photos into albums, or tag photos

* easily share photos and albums/tags via all the main share tools (email, sms, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, pinterest, etc, etc)

[Walter]

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[Walter]

Hi @teo5; thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas with us!

I just wanted to let you know that this idea is going to need a bit more support before we can share your suggestions with the team so I've updated the status here to encourage more users to back you up!

See you around the Community and take care! 

[Mads Ulrik S.]

That would be so nice with some better photo management and search options. I think, that is the part I'm missing the most with Dropbox.... 

[Hannah]

Thank you for this idea. While we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!

[darh]

I'd like to request some easier-to-implement features:

• The ability to see the folder location name where the photo(s) is stored
• The ability to select or filter on which folder location(s) I want to see
• The ability to not see deleted photos
• The ability to sort and/or filter by folder location
• As above, the ability to sort and/or filter by other meta data

I'm undergoing a huge photo cleanup and de-duplication effort. The Photos interface is way more confusing than helpful, as it shows me photos I've recently deleted, but does not allow me to point to my new reorganized and cleaned-up master folder.

[Graham]

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to stop by and let you all know about some updates we've made to improve mobile search function. These may not be exactly what was asked for here in this idea suggestion, but I believe these new features would definitely help to make your experience with photos a little easier.

So, here are the new features we have implemented:

• Larger Result Thumbnails
• Modified Dates in search results
• File Sizes in search results
• Snippets for keyword matches within files 
• Sorting results by newest or oldest
• Filtering results by File Type or 'Modified Date'

You can find out more information or let us know what you think of these improvements over on this thread.

Thanks, and have a great day!

Graham

[Walter]

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Thank you for your support!

[Walter]

This idea has been closed as it has reached the end of the Share an Idea process.

Thank you for your suggestion, and if you have another idea to share, please do! 

You can find out more about these improvements here and get support or provide feedback in Ask the Community.