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In addition to all the points you made, you can make your site look however you like. I didn't want my site to look like it was a "photo album service" site. I wanted all the features of a service, but I wanted it to look like my own personal site. And use my own domain name.

So smugmug is good for that too.

Lots of good options out there, though.

cheers,
Trish
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http://www.trishtunney.com/
 
I use smugmug and I am very happy with it (and I see it is growing in popularity).

What I like most about it are the nice presentation styles and the customisation in look and feel you can achieve without much technical knowledge. (See link to my website as an example of what can be achieved)

While volume is unlimited, bandwidth is not. I have a poweruser account and consume about half of the 8 GB/month bandwidth with an average of 100 to 200 visitors per day.
I hope this helps.
Jos
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http://www.jos-echelpoels.smugmug.com
http://www.photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=269430
 
I accidentally deleted one of my galleries this morning. I emailed smugmug hoping that someone could restore my gallery. Within 20 minutes, two days before Xmas, on a Friday, I received an email from John Young at smugmug letting me know that my gallery had just been restored. Now that's customer service.
 
david chen said:
I accidentally deleted one of my galleries this morning. I emailed
smugmug hoping that someone could restore my gallery. Within 20
minutes, two days before Xmas, on a Friday, I received an email
from John Young at smugmug letting me know that my gallery had just
been restored. Now that's customer service.
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Very impressive!

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John
Gallery: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/portfolio
 
Hello,

Here you can find an interesting overview of the most important photo sharing sites: http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6451_7-6245143-1.html

I have been comparing them for some time before i decided to go for smugmug because of the very positve comments of users here on dpreview, and the fact that PC MAGAZINE chose smugmug as “Editor’s Choice”.

Standard account is $29.95/ year, which gives you:
  • unlimited storage space !
  • full res download permitted
  • elegant and sophisticated gallery styles
  • no ads or spam, etc…
  • you can find a complete list of the features here: http://www.smugmug.com/price/index.mg
Smugmug offers a free 7 day trial. If you subscribre and use my code RexaramzeghMy or you use this link you save $5 on your subscription: http://www.smugmug.com/?referrer=RexaramzeghMy

Im using Smugmug for only a week now and i am already totally addicted ;-)

Good luck,

Armani
 
I've been going back and forth between Smugmug and Pbase. I've seen dozens of posts here extolling the advantages of Smugmug, but the problem is I can't find anything on Smugmug. Hitting on a key word or category like "landscape" sends you into a never never land of clutter. When I go to Pbase I do a search or click on Popular galleries and get a simple view of 8 or so galleries that I can explore or move on to the next set. They are also very cleanly layed out. I can spend hours going thorugh the galleries. With Smugmug I get frustrated by clutter and endless loops of mislabled photos. I can see Smugmug as useful if you have a specific person's site you want to visit, or if you are selling your photos, but for someone who wants to show their work and possiblly get feedback, Pbase seems better. What am I missing?
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Mitra
 
Mitrajoon said:
I've been going back and forth between Smugmug and Pbase. I've seen
dozens of posts here extolling the advantages of Smugmug, but the
problem is I can't find anything on Smugmug. Hitting on a key word
or category like "landscape" sends you into a never never land of
clutter. When I go to Pbase I do a search or click on Popular
galleries and get a simple view of 8 or so galleries that I can
explore or move on to the next set. They are also very cleanly
layed out. I can spend hours going thorugh the galleries. With
Smugmug I get frustrated by clutter and endless loops of mislabled
photos. I can see Smugmug as useful if you have a specific person's
site you want to visit, or if you are selling your photos, but for
someone who wants to show their work and possiblly get feedback,
Pbase seems better. What am I missing?
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Pbase is a fine service. Whether it's better for you than Smugmug depends upon what characteristics of a service are more important to you. Though I haven't experienced this myself, I think your searching comments are related to the type of "community" that pbase is versus smugmug. While smugmug has a thriving pro population with zillions of awesome images, they also have a large population of families that take snapshots and use smugmug for sharing with friends/family. As such, when you search you're going to run into a fair number of those. That wouldn't surprise me.

When I browse landscapes on smugmug, I didn't actually have the same experience you did - I found great landscapes though I'm sure you can run into a fair number of snapshots too. I went to http://www.smugmug.com , clicked on the browse link at the bottom of the page which took me to http://www.smugmug.com/browse/ . I then clicked on landscapes there and got to this http://www.smugmug.com/browse/13 which was a bunch of great landscapes.

When I was seriously evaluating services about 18 months ago, it came down to pbase and Smugmug for me. At the time, pbase was a lot more popular here on dpreview than Smugmug, though Smugmug has grown a ton since then. But, I looked at the features of the two services that mattered the most to me and I settled on Smugmug. The two features that got me the most on Smugmug were unlimited storage and friends/family could order prints right from my galleries. The unlimited storage really simplifies my workflow because I don't have to resize for the web. I just upload my full size JPEGs and smugmug makes 5 differnet web sizes from those that are used in the various gallery types.

Since then I've found many other great features of Smugmug including site customization with CSS, a referral service that has paid for several of my future years of service, solid uptime for the service, an upgrade to a pro account where you can actually sell photos, a bunch of great uploaders so you can upload thousands of images across many galleries all unattended, a great set of friends/family sharing features, an awesome tech support forum at http://dgrin.com with smugmug staffers paid to answer your questions, help you customize your site, answer questions about color correction, etc...

So, you have to decide what your most important objectives/characteristics are. If it's the "community aspect" that you feel at pbase, then that might be the best choice for you. For me, the depth of photo sharing and customization features along with printing, unlimited storage and the best customer service I've seen in awhile led me to smugmug.

I think both services have free 7-day trial periods, so I'd suggest that you just try them both and see which one meets your needs better.

If you have any further questions about smugmug, don't hesitate to ask me (email is in my profile) or pop into http://dgrin.com and ask there. Within the last year, dgrin has also turned into a thriving photo forum too with some very talented retouchers hanging out there and answering questions. It's got one of the most amazing discussion threads on doing color correction with LAB mode in Photoshop that I've ever seen http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18203 .

I have recommended Smugmug to many folks. Of the more than 165 people who have tried the service on my recommendation, more than 9 out of 10 who tried it stayed on as subscribers. When people try it they like it. Try both and then decide which one matches your needs the best.

Though there have already been a number of smugmug folks who have listed their referral code in this thread to get a $5 discount off your intial sign-up, I'll offer mine too and you can decide which one to use. To use it, either type the code '3elo1xh75JSiI' into the sign-up screen or just start your sign-up from this URL and the discount will be automatically applied: http://www.smugmug.com/?referrer=3elo1xh75JSiI .

Good luck in choosing a service.
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John
Gallery: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/portfolio
 
ddr7 said:
The nice thing about Pbase is the simplified interface, look at
Google too, the less clutter the better.
dror
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Did you know that smugmug has very similar views to pbase (called "All Thumbs" and "Traditional" and, in most cases (except where the site owner has locked it down which is usually not the case), the viewer can decide which view to use for your smugmug viewing preference, I'm wondering if you could help me understand where it is the pbase works better?

I'm not actually trying to be argumentative, just trying to understand what might make the pbase look more appealing?

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John
Gallery: http://jfriend.smugmug.com/portfolio
 
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