Scott, great review! And I caught the paranthetical comment about your videos not being edited… haha. Believe it or not, I’m working on snippets to upload – the challenge has been editing to bite-sized sessions (4-6 min), from the hours of footage. Soon!

Great Review – I jumped down from Pro to standard – from memory I lost the ability to watermark and to profit from any print sales; but I might be wrong?

Oh and you forgot the other cool thing – the Camera Strap!

Haha you’re all good Garrett… I actually took some video of a Photography Workshop but I’m not sure why since I can’t find the time to edit them either.
Plus each Lightroom class I do seems to get better.
What’s the link to the snippet you did edit? Was there much interest in it anyway?

Very good review. I upgraded from a standard to a pro account this week. One thing you mentioned, that’s not part of SmugMug, but stood out to me is taking your photos to where people are. I’ve always said that I hate the way Facebook compresses images, but you’re right. People are already there, socializing and sharing photos. I need to re-think the way I share photos on FB, not just on my SmugMug site.

Another plus for SmugMug is their DGrin forums (http://www.digitalgrin.com/). Not only do you find a great group of photographers, but people that really know SmugMug. I’ve recently been directed to the SmugMug Customization area of the DGrin forums.

Shaun.
I’ve found that when they take the already web-ready smugmug pictures and then put them on Facebook they get better results (though not perfect)

Scott, I haven’t posted anything online yet. I guess I’m waiting to do one big batch, which is probably a bad idea. I’m anticipating a slow winter, work-wise, so I’ll churn out the best of it and put it on YouTube and send you a link.

Er, might I add that I have other tutorials posted on YouTube from that LR session in March, just not yours, yet. There are a few here:

http://www.youtube.com/aderynproductions

Wow! I have been using Flickr for over a year now but your review makes me want to drop my Flickr account and move to Smug for all of my needs. I am going to be looking into this more and see if it fits my needs and my photography. Thank you very much for this review of Smug. I’m sure Smug would be proud of your review and the customers they will get from it. Keep up the good work. : )

You are the “Lots of Pictures King” Nice work on the review.

I thought I wasn’t one of the larger Smugmug users out there, but I guess I’m probably not too behind the top 100, and maybe in the top 100. Stats as of today:
Photos uploaded: 229723
Disk space used: 334.04 GB

Bandwidth after re-launch of my web site (it sat dormant for 3 years):
July 2009: 220618 21.36 GB
August 2009: 238669 28.45 GB
September 2009: 51957 8.41 GB (bad weather affected events)
October 2009: 101238 14.43 GB (getting colder into the off season)

You’ve got a really popular fan base! I get about 5k unique visitors each month. It was as high was 20k back in the day. I’m working to get it back there again…

Smugmug is a strong business partner. I’ve never had a complaint about a print from a client, and I’ve never had a good copy of a picture stolen from my site. Now that’s a great platform.

Can you tell me how you got Clicky to work with Smugmug some reason it’s not working for me. Thanks.

Advanced customization

I put the javascript from clicky and I actually put it in the footer.
I think you can delete part so their logo does not show up on the site.

I did like wise. I’ve placed it on all my sites with out the Clicky logo. But for Smugmug I’ve placed it there with and with out the logo in both the footer and the bottom javascript (even though I was sure it wouldn’t work in the javascript section.) I’m still not showing the visits.