Comments on: Flickr far superior to SmugMug?

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Next Google » How To Prosper In A 800 Pound Gorilla’s Territory — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:42:25 +0000

[...] One CEO puts it so well and no wonder his company is humming along smoothly and is profitable. We’re not trying to be Flickr. We love Flickr, often refer customers that aren’t a great fit with SmugMug, and think it’s a great site that addresses a real mass-market need for photo sharing. But that’s not what SmugMug is - we’re not a mass-market brand, we’re not for everyone, and we think we have a very narrow bead on our target. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:54:22 +0000

Speaking about “geotagging”: do you know locr?

locr offers the ideal solution and makes geotagging exceptionally easy. locr uses GoogleMaps with detailed maps and high-resolution satellite images. To geotag your photos just enter address, let locr search, fine-tune the marker, accept position, and done! If you don’t know the exact address simply use drag&drop to set the position.

For automatic geotagging you need a datalog GPS receiver in additon to your digital camera. The GPS receiver data and the digital camera data is then automatically linked together by the locr software. All information will be written into the EXIF header.

Use the “Show in Google Earth” button to view your photos in Google Earth.

With locr you can upload photos with GPS information in them without any further settings. In the standard view, locr shows the photo itself, plus the place it was taken. If you want to know more about the place where the photo was taken, just have at look at the Wikipedia articles which are also automatically assigned to the picture.

Have a look at http://www.locr.com.

By: Bronwen

Bronwen — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:14:17 +0000

I think you guys def. need to advertise your new features more. I like to play with new features but maybe cause i’m a developer. I love the cleanness ad ease of use of smug mug’s interface. So many photo sites are soooo cluttered it takes away from the fact you want to see nice pics.

By: Marc Lawrence

Marc Lawrence — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:16:22 +0000

Flickr offers the worst customer service I have EVER experienced in dealing with an online business.

By: Les Hawkins

Les Hawkins — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:28:30 +0000

One thing that was mentioned in Andy’s original blog but not here is the one major problem I have with Smugmug. Searching and security. Yes I can secure my pictures on smugmug but once this is done I can no longer search for them. If I want to share only some of the images from a set in a private gallery then I have to make another gallery and duplicate the images.

By: Catherine Hoffman

Catherine Hoffman — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:24:59 +0000

Very interesting analysis of his review. I would just like to add that while I will never go over to Flickr (I loathe the way they organize photos) the one feature I would really love to have is their flash based labeling system where you can put a box around something and then leave a note with it. I think that’s a great tool and wish we had the ability to do that.

By: Jim McGowan

Jim McGowan — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:02:52 +0000

Just a few quick comments. Excellent exchange, by the way! I have subscriptions to both SmugMug and Flickr, but mostly use SmugMug. Just my preference; I’m not a professional - far from it! Mostly family pics. SmugMug is more suited to my needs. Flickr is more for sharing, community. It’s harder to maintain private albums there - which is what I need with some young granddaughters, but I won’t go any further into that. I have used QOOP and their products are more than satisfactory for my needs. Actually they’re quite nice! Maybe not if I were a photograoher - I don’t really know about that. When I need really nice photo albums, though, I use My Publisher BookMaker. If the high-end books that Bill of QOOP mentioned are similar to My Publisher’s books, I’m looking forward to them. Hafven’t seen them yet, though. Don, I also agree with Krishnan in that I would hope that you are looking out for those of us who are in the market for some “less-than-professional photo products from SmugMug. I do purchase a decent handful of $100+ books from My Publisher each year, but I also need calendars, mugs, and the like. Hopefully at better prices than Krishnan mentioned!

Thanks.

By: Andy Atkinson

Andy Atkinson — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:17:58 +0000

Greg- great tool! I downloaded a gallery last night and it worked [mostly] as expected, sucking in the metadata I’d added on the SmugMug site. The single executable distributed in a ZIP file makes it extremely easy for any PC user to start using it.

I’ll continue discussion with you at the dgrin forums, but I wanted to encourage ALL SmugMug users out there to give this a shot and support Greg.

By: Greg Wellman

Greg Wellman — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:37:52 +0000

Don,
You mentioned SmugMug customers’ current inability to easily get their images and metadata back out of SmugMug. Just this week I released a free little Windows tool to the DGrin community which does just this. Users can download one or many galleries and optionally embed their captions and keywords into the downloaded originals’ IPTC headers. See the linked DGrin post for the download, source code, etc.

Thanks for your efforts to keep SmugMug at the top. Oh, and I’m keeping an eye on the Beta Wiki page.
-Greg Wellman

By: Krishnan

Krishnan — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:08:08 +0000

Don,
Selling $100+ wedding pictures - high quality, excellent prints - that’s one market.
Selling prints on cups, calendars, mousepads, tshirts, business-cards etc. - that’s an entirely different market.

Solving #1 does not address #2 - simply because #2 is inherently a market for trinkets - adequate quality, cheap items, large volume. When somebody is drinking a cup of joe and the cup has a picture on it, as long as there is no pixellation, its good enough. Its just a cup!

I continue to buy $$ quality prints at smugmug, but that’s market #1.
When I want to give things away, at a large volume, I’m just looking for a budget printing solution. I don’t see one right now on smugmug. Perhaps we need both - a professional highquality-highprice provider like ezprints, and a budget printer, like ???

Krishnan