6 Reasons I Love SmugMug

Reasons to join SmugMug

1. Themes

Each of your SmugMug pages can be customized to the theme that fits your photos best. It is a beautiful way to display your online photos and others will see your themes too. Theme choices include holidays, special occasions, and colorful whimsy designs.

2. Online Viewing Community

You can browse through SmugMug's entire collection of photos, make comments, rank them, and share them with others. Your photos will be added to the collection as well. Plus, when others view your photos, they see your entire gallery (or whatever you allow them to see in your security settings) rather than just looking at a photo view.

3. Customization

On your SmugMug homepage, you can easily update your choices on several different elements. You can alter your choices to allow others to rank your photos, make comments on them, and whether or not friends and family can edit your photo galleries. Never again will you look at the same old bland site as everyone else.

4. Privacy

Online photo collections should always have this kind of security. SmugMug takes several precautions to ensure that the only people that see (and use) your photos are the ones you allow.

Passwords can be assigned to all friends and family that you want to have access to your photos. By making your SmugMug site unlisted, others won't be able to access your photos unless you invite them to your gallery through one of the sharing options. External links can also be turned on so that photos in your SmugMug account can be accessed and linked to other places, like your iPod.

5. Organization

Have you ever entered your photos one way and then realized that they'd be better organized another way? SmugMug allows you to easily reorganize your photo galleries by adding, deleting, and renaming photo categories any time you want.

6. Photo Protection

In the world of copyrights, our photo isn't ours until we make it that way. Let SmugMug adjust your account so that photos (that you've taken) can be purchased and printed, and the site will give your photos right click protections so others can't copy and paste them without your permission.

Without a doubt, SmugMug is a site worth visiting. It offers a more professional approach to photo storing and sharing, that works even for the non-professional. Get started uploading photos at SmugMug right away!