I don't understand why DeviantART gives you such restricted control of your Gallery.

I want to be able to sort my Deviations into albums, not just sort themselves by the date I submitted them.

DeviantART, why can't you do this?

Why it should change
I really want to be able to manage my portfolio myself. Imagine meeting someone and showing them a folder of your pictures, you don't really want them just chucked in randomly, especially when you have pictures that are part of a series you want them grouped together.

For example
I want to make albums for these pictures, so they are grouped as a series. Otherwise you have to search through the thumbnails in my Gallery looking for black people or sunny deserts to try and find all my pictures from my India trip:

The easiest way of doing this would be the same as the browsing feature "Browse by Genre" except 'Genre' would be the names of your albums that you specified when you submitted it.

•All Albums
•My Trip to India
•Sands School
•Beautiful Days Festival 2005
•Leeds Festival 2005
•Unsorted Pictures

You could just have a feature in "Settings" to "Create new Album" and then when submitting Deviations, it lists your albums, and you can tick the box next to any albums you want it to file under. If you don't tick one, it will only appear in "All Albums" which is the default photo album, into which ALL of your deviations go.
The default view would be "All Albums" like it currently is, but with the customised albums available in the drop down 'Browsing views' options boxes.





Action

Send DA a message requesting an option to organise deviations in ALBUMS!
DA Helpdesk: [link]


Thankyou all