2. SmugMug is a paid digital photo sharing website, which allows users to upload both HD photos
and videos to their SmugMug sites. Launched in 2002, the company focuses on both amateur, as
well as professional photographers - offering a toolset which facilitates the selling of digital and
print media.
Smugmug
Maximum number of galleries
NO
Maximum capacity(MB)
50MG
Allows customizing?
YES
Labels
NO
Private Galleries
YES
Download allowed
YES
Spanish/Catalan
NO

3. Minus is a revolutionary chat and photo experience that lets you travel the world and meet new
friends. They wanted Minus to emphasize simplicity and minimalism. Part of this experience
involves a simple and short name.
Minus
Maximum number of galleries
Maximum capacity(MB)
NO
1TB
Allows customizing?
YES
Labels
YES
Private Galleries
YES
Download allowed
YES
Spanish/Catalan
SPANISH

4. Flickr (stylized as flickr and pronounced "flicker") is an image hosting and video hosting website,
and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. In
addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and
effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and
by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.
Flickr
Maximum number of galleries
Maximum capacity(MB)
NO
-
Allows customizing?
YES
Labels
YES
Private Galleries
NO
Download allowed
NO
Spanish/Catalan
SPANISH

5. Photobucket is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online
community created by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal dedicated to preserving and sharing the
entire photo and video lifecycle. Photobucket hosts more than 10 billion images from 100
million registered members, who upload more than four million images and videos per day from
Photobucket
the Web and connected digital devices. Photobucket's headquarters are in Denver with regional
Maximum number of galleries NO
offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.. The website was founded in 2003
Maximum Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired
by Alex Welch and Darren capacity(MB)
by Fox Interactive Media in 2007. In December 2009, Fox's parent company, News Corp sold
Allows customizing?
YES
Photobucket to Seattle mobile imaging startup Ontela. Ontela then renamed itself Photobucket
Labels
YES
Inc. and continues to operate as Photobucket
Private Galleries
YES
Download allowed
YES
Spanish/Catalan
NO

6. ImageShack is a free image hosting website headquartered at Los Gatos, California. ImageShack
has a subscription service but the majority of its revenue is produced from advertising related to
its free image hosting.
ImageShack
Maximum number of galleries
NO
Maximum capacity(MB)
5MG
Allows customizing?
NO
Labels
YES
Private Galleries
YES
Download allowed
YES
Spanish/Catalan
NO

7. SlideShare is a Web 2.0 based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in
the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote or OpenDocument presentations. Slide
Slideshare
decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites.
Launched on October 4, 2006, the website is considered to be similar to YouTube, but for
Maximum number of galleries NO
slideshows. The website was originally meant to be used for businesses to share slides among
Maximum capacity(MB)
5MB
employees more easily, but it has since expanded to also become a host of a large number of
Allows customizing?
NO
slides that are uploaded merely to entertain. Although the website is primarily a slide hosting
service, it also supports documents, PDFs, videos NO webinars. SlideShare also provides users
and
Labels
the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content. The current list of SlideShare's
Private Galleries
YES
investors includes Venrock, David Siminoff and Dev Khare
Download allowed
YES
Spanish/Catalan
NO

8. TUTORIAL
How to Create a Gorgeous Photography Website with SmugMug in 90 Minutes –
A Complete Step-By-Step
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04fQP8GK
OHY&list=PLBmDaO1xct4B4WOCkGUirQcI5HVz
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9. TUTORIAL 1
Step 1: Sign Up With SmugMug and Upload Our First Gallery
In this video, we’ll create our SmugMug account (if you haven’t done so already), and create our
first gallery – filling it with beautiful images.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUtQJj4HGA&list=PLBmDaO1xct4B4WOCkGUirQcI5
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10. TUTORIAL 2
Step 2: Upload a few more galleries and create our Portfolio gallery
In this video, we’ll fill out our site by creating a few more galleries and uploading more photos.
I’ll show you how to use the “Quick Settings” feature in SmugMug. Then we’ll use the best
photos from each gallery to create our very important (and impressive) Portfolio gallery. And
we’ll be using a secret SmugMug ninja trick to create our Portfolio. That’s right – Secret. Ninja.
Trick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X05PbHog
7q8&list=PLBmDaO1xct4B4WOCkGUirQcI5HVz
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11. TUTORIAL 3
Step 3: Setup Our Site Settings, Create the Menu Bar and Social Media Profile
Step 3 is about creating our profile and site settings so things just “work” in the later steps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muoYf17k
vPM&list=PLBmDaO1xct4B4WOCkGUirQcI5HV
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12. TUTORIAL 4
Step 4: Customizing Our SmugMug Website
In Step 4 we get to have some fun while we customize the look and feel of our website using
SmugMug’s New “Drag and Drop” customization tools. It’s what you’ve been waiting for I know!
No coding, no special skills required. Just follow along and have fun.
Using SmugMug’s new “drag and drop” customization tools we’ll make the following changes to
your website:
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Adjust the color of our default “Ludwig” theme
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Create the homepage slideshow
Add a text block (customer quote) under the homepage slideshow
Design the Header section – stacked and centered
Customize the other page types by removing unwanted content blocks and adjusting the
margins

13. TUTORIAL 5
Step 5: Create Our “Work With Me” Page and Contact Form
In this step, we’ll create a special page on our website which will provide information about you,
the photographer, your services, and client testimonials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jImVGiOM
This is where you sell yourself – to hopefully get people to contact you (through our fancy
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contact form) and attract4jgf_ business!
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