open any photo in your gallery, for example http://www.nicknphoto.com/galleries/pic … category/2 and click on the "modify information" icon, you're now on the administration screen of the photo. Scroll down to the "Representation of albums" section. Choose any album from the right side list and move it to the right side list by clicking on the "«" button.

This way, any photo can represent any album.

Please suggest a better place for this feature :-)

Searched for the same thing.  Luckily this forum had the answer.

I would suggest putting this in the Batch Manager, thus add an action there "set as representative".  There you can see al photos in an album and select one. 

IMHO it doesn't make sense to select a photo that is not part of the album as the representative for the album

debruyck wrote:

I would suggest putting this in the Batch Manager, thus add an action there "set as representative".  There you can see al photos in an album and select one.

IMHO it doesn't make sense to select a photo that is not part of the album as the representative for the album

So you mean that the "set as representative" action in the batch manager could only apply to an album the photo belong to? (with inheritance)

The problem is that the batch manager works on several photos at once, while the representative is unique for each album. What would the batch manager do when you select more than one photo?

debruyck wrote:

IMHO it doesn't make sense to select a photo that is not part of the album as the representative for the album

It doesn't make sense for you, but it may make a lot of sense for somebody else :-) But I agree that "most of the time", we should only propose to set a photo as representative for an album it belongs to (directly or by inheritance). An idea would be to display only the list of albums related to the photos and add an option "show all albums/show only related albums". What do you think of it?

"Album thumbnail" would be good.   That doesn't say anything about what the picture represents, just that there is an option to use a picture to indicate the contents of the album.   It could be a symbolic picture, a picture from the album, even a picture of words, either descriptive or otherwise.

Bill

The problem with "Album highlight" is that it assumes that the picture is in the album.  But it doesn't necessarily need to be.  You could have pictures in a totally different album and use those to represent pictures in other albums.  For example, if you had albums of different vehicles - one for cars, one for trucks, one for motorcycles - and you had another album with drawings of vehicles of all different types - and you then use a drawing of a car in that drawing album for the representative picture of the album with car pictures.  You do the same with the truck and motorcycle albums.

Also, a "highlight" is like saying "best."  While a picture may be in album and be a representation of the pictures in  the album, it doesn't need to be considered the best picture (rated or otherwise).

Bill

OK, I am persuaded :-)

In context "album thumbnail" makes sense.  I think Gallery2 and Gallery3 use the term "album highlight".