If you looking for a website where you can share your photos as well as have them stored and backed up look no farther than SmugMug. I have been a user for two years now and could not be happier with the service they provide.
Personal photos, professional photos- it does not matter; these images take up tons of hard drive space and SmugMug not only alleviates that issue but provides unlimited storage as well as beautiful online display options. Whereas many other photos sharing sites require a user to sacrifice photos resolution, SmugMug has no such limitations.
In fact, SmugMug offers a user a wide menu of control features such as choosing themes to personalize your photo galleries, and preventing your photos from being embedded on other sites. A user can share their entire catalog of photos or password-protect any number of photo galleries or your entire SmugMug account. Also, unlike other photo-sharing sites where a visitor is required to register to view photos this is not the case with a SmugMug account.
SmugMug is not a free photo-sharing site and they do offer a few subscription options but the rates are reasonable yearly fees. SmugMug is in partnership with Amazon: Amazon.com is the standard in safe online backup. All of the SmugMug photos are automatically backed up to Amazon's network of data centers.
The SmugMug site (www.smugmug.com) is ad-free and easy to upload and edit images (you can link directly to www.picnik.com.
If you are interested in a free trial of SmugMug, shoot me an email because as a user I am able to provide a $5.00 discount to a subscription if you choose to go beyond the trial basis.
Tim Winters
Top Producer Regional Sales Associate-NC & SC
704-351-4029
tim.winters@topproducer.com
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