The New Smugmug

Hi Everyone, for years I've been hosting my photos on Smugmug, it's a great place for displaying and selling your photos, they don't compress the photos the way some sites do and you get unlimited uploads. Well Smugmug just got a lot better with new easier ways to customize your site to make it your own. In the past when you wanted to customize your site you had to know how to code CSS, HTML and Javascript, with the new site you drag and drop and change settings and colors in a dialog box and for those who want to use CSS and HTML for even more customizing you can. You can add slideshows to your homepage and other pages, you can display your galleries in many different ways, you can have a map page to display geotagged photos, you can have search and keyword pages.  I have a combination search/keyword page on my site. They added a cool way people can search for photos using a rotating keyword cloud. You can check it out here.

If you want to sell photos Smugmug makes it easy to do that to and you can set your own prices if you have a Portfolio or Business account.  For more casual users who just want to share photos with family and friend the Basic or Power user account are for you.

Here's a comparison of the different accounts: Smugmug Features

I recently redid my site in the new format and you can check it out here Digital Images by Ron Skinner. Feel free to explore the site and let me know how you like it.

Smugmug also interacts well with the social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and many more.  You can create FB Albums directly from Smugmug with their "Publish to Facebook" feature. You can quickly post links to your photos by sharing them with one click to FB, Google+ and Twitter

If you'd like to try Smugmug out free go here: Smugmug Trial
That link should insert a coupon code to get you a $5 discount on your account or you can just insert this coupon code if you decide to sign up....  aUvDzphm1l71Y


They even make it easy for you to put stupid photos of yourself in a blog like this one:




Well there you have it if you're looking for a place to host your photos or maybe even sell them then check out Smugmug.  Check out my site to see what you can do Digital Images by Ron Skinner 

and if you like what you see try it out here: Smugmug Trial


And for you photographers that are looking for cool places to take photos, check out the Cool Photo Ops Group on Facebook where we post fun places to take photos every week. Everyone is welcome to join in, but ya gotta have FUN!!!

Some of the events coming up in the next few weeks are Civil War Reenactment, D-Day Reenactment, A tour of the Fitzwater Train Yard tour in the CVNP