The Flickr account has run out, and we are trying different ways to view the pictures. You can now see our full Liam gallery in this “SmugMug” gallery. It looks pretty good. We’ve got a 14 day trial, so I’ll try to put up a poll next week and people can vote on SmugMug vs. Flickr. I know you all download the pictures and upload them to Shutterfly anyways.
I like the SmugMug. I can download a picture to my desktop and it fills the screen without distortion. I like that!
With Flickr I had to center the photo on my desktop, and couldn’t get it any bigger without stretching it all out of proportion.
What’s your beef against Shutterfly?
My biggest complaint is that you (someone who is not me) can’t download the original photo file from Shutterfly. The organization is also poor, as you can only split stuff into albums. SmugMug has a password protected option for each gallery, which I probably won’t use but it’s nice. I’m starting to do my organization on my desktop first, so the organization that Flickr had may be unnecessary since I can sort and filter beforehand (using Picasa).
This is much more user friendly than the flickr seemed. I can understand the frustration of not being able to get to the original photo. One feature on shutterfly that I like is the ability to make the little album books so I will probably continue to use that function. The smugbug doesn’t seem to have as many options for that sort of thing, although I don’t use the card, albums etc that much.