SmugBlog: Pro Corner

Say goodbye to washed out colors!

Not long ago, we had a customer write into the help desk asking for HELP! with his customization. For lots of reasons, he was unable to do any of it himself, despite our best efforts to guide him along the way. Our pro was about to give up when I asked him [...]

PhotoRank is a brand new feature at SmugMug. You may have noticed those green and red thumbs. So, what are they, and why’d we do it? The idea is to answer two questions we’ve been hearing for a very long time:
1. How do I find the most popular photos of [...]

How to get the good stuff.

A customer of one of our pros wrote in to our help desk with a complaint about a photo that was “much darker” and “less contrasty” than what she saw on her monitor when she bought the photo.

The sad, but undeniable truth that we pros in the online world have to deal with is that [...]

Do you have a large base of potential clients that don’t speak your native language? How about a bi-lingual site? Here’s a fine example by Sebastian Hosche. And, how to do it? Of course, you’ll fine the answer in this tutorial on Digital Grin.
Congratulations, Sebastion, on a [...]

As I mentioned in my previous entry, I bristle when I hear “all SmugMug sites look the same…” Man, that really frosts me! Onethumb and JT have built a system such that the customization possibilities are nearly limitless! Along the lines of TV’s Pimp Your Ride, I’ve made a little collection of [...]

I hear tell on forums and from mail that many pros think that one SmugMug site looks like the next. Bah!

You say you don’t know HTML and CSS? Neither did this SmugMug Pro.

Would you like to be able go from this

to this

or this

like a pro?
There are a million ways to go about it. You can take the time, read some books, you can get some photoshop actions or filters, or you can learn the basics in ten or fifteen minutes. My recommendation is to do [...]