If you have photos and would like to show them off online, Smugmug is the place for you. Smugmug is an online photo storage website that offers so much more. You can upload unlimited photos, show them, and with the pro-account you can sell them at your prices, and make a profit.
They have 3 account levels. Standard, Power and Pro Accounts are all options you can chose from. They give the same support for any of these accounts. All can be customized to your own personal style. With the pro account you have many more options then other account types.
One of the best things about this site has no advertisements or popups.
With Smugmug you are able to “lock” your galleries with photos you don’t want public. I have galleries that are private that no one is able to see except the people that I want to see them. Family photos do not have to be available for everyone to see if you don’t want them to be seen by the world. If you do have family that you want to show the photos to, all you have to do is give them a password, they will be able to access the account.
They offer easy customizations of galleries with theme options that they have. You can choose themes for new babies, weddings, holidays and many more options. They offer several different gallery styles, with different background colors, and fonts. You can set you pages up with Google maps, or use timelines to organize the photos. Sorting the photos is so easy with Smugmug, create a gallery, and add to it. Uploading is made simple. You don’t need to make sure your photos are under a certain size you can upload any size file to smugmug.
They make it simple to have a professional looking website in a matter of minutes. No need for a web designer to design the site. If you get stuck, there is support in the forum that all you have to do is ask a question and they will answer giving you step by step instructions, or sometimes you request something they will go in and do it for you.
You can write your own captions for the photos, keyword the photos so that you are found by the search engines, and you can search through only your photo galleries.
Smugmug offers online cropping for your photos you can adjust the photos to only print sections that you want. If you have a pro account, you can chose to have custom back printing on the back of the photo.
If you want a DVD backup of your photos online, you can order that also. All accounts have a RSS feed available.
The Pro Accounts offer the most choices for photographers. With this level of account you can set your own custom watermarks for protection, you have the option of no right-click to download. If there is a message you would like on the back of the photos you can design your own or use a pre-designed one. The website can be customized to add slideshows, videos, and change the look totally. No matter how you envision your site to look out the forum will assist you so you can achieve your look.
It is like there is a happiness guarantee built into smugmug if you don’t like the photos you received within 30 days send them an email and they will refund your money, or replace the photos. It’s your choice.
I wouldn’t have my photos any other place. It’s the quick response to correcting issues that have me sold on smugmug. I have used smugmug for several years now I haven’t had any issues that wasn’t quickly corrected with them
