
SmugMug links to Android, IOS, and Lightroom for automated uploading and storing of your images.


The sales are conducted through SmugMug’s secure online platform and sent to verified printer partners around the world. This offers clients the opportunity to browse through photography collections and select the images they would like to buy digitally or in print form. SmugMug was started in 2002 by the father and son duo, Don and Chris MacAskill, and is still owned by the original owners.Īpart from storing your images, SmugMug also allows you to create a private or public portfolio of your finalized images to share with clients. The platform also facilitates the sale of photos and videos for amateur and professional photographers. Users can set their devices to automatically upload their media files to the platform that offers unlimited storage capacity. SmugMug is a subscription-based online photo/video-storing hosting platform. Read on to learn all you need to know to decide whether you should buy a SmugMug or Flickr subscription for your photography. While both programs offer unique benefits to photographers, there are limitations. SmugMug has the added benefit of letting you sell your images through the platform and have them printed for your buyer to collect. SmugMug and Flickr are both photo-storing and sharing platforms that allow you to create a sharable portfolio of your work. With two extremely popular options being SmugMug and Flickr, I have broken down the pros and cons between each to help you decide which is better suited to you. Since there are many options available, it becomes difficult to decide which platform to trust with your images. Even worse, the Organiser on the Flickr website flat-out doesn’t work in mobile Safari, you can’t drag images into the batch editor thus rendering it impossible to do any organising without a full-blown computer.As a photographer, I know how tricky storing photographs can be, especially when you want a secure online space to keep your images. Then, it’s not possible to individually name each photo if you’re bulk-uploading, you can’t bulk-add tags or locations, and the uploader uploads the photos in seemingly random order rather than the order that they were taken in. Somewhere along the way the share extension has stopped working so I’m unable to directly upload from Lightroom on my iPad Pro and have to save the images out to the camera roll first and directly open the Flickr app to do it. The Flickr app is fantastic for browsing, favouriting, and commenting, but it falls down in a massive heap if you try to do much by way of uploading or organising.

Great for consumption, terrible for tagging/organising/etc.
