Welcome to our Pro family! Remember: You don't need a fancy site from day one. We'll get to that later, after you lay the groundwork for your biz. To begin we'll guide you to get a solid, functional site up and ready for showing your clients. You can do this in as little as an hour. Your new site will be easier to set up if you add some photos. So let's get started! Step One: Get Them Online Typically, a gallery will be one ...
Pro Smuggers can display their images on SmugMug, big and beautiful, and place custom watermarks to protect them. No worries, watermarks will not appear on prints ordered through SmugMug. FYI: We only watermark images that are 801px and up on the longest side. We do not watermark photos whose longest side is equal to or less than 800 pixels because a display copy and the original are the same image. I want one! Fir...
Pricelists give you the ability to efficiently manage all of your pricing from one place. Each Pricelist is like a bucket, into which you can easily drop galleries to price them. Portfolio Users - (Business Users click here) Portfolio account users can have many price lists. But only one price list is active at a time and applies to all galleries that have printing turned on. Get Started Find your Pricelists man...
SmugMug will always be there for you, but we don't have to be in your URL. With a few quick steps, you can hook up your custom domain to point right to your site. Example: Use http://www.moonriverphotography.com instead of http://williams.smugmug.com . Option 1: SmugDomains No domain? No problem! SmugMug is hooked up with GoDaddy to get you one-step, effortless domain setup: Go here and pick an available domain n...
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Getting Paid SmugMug will email you every time you make a sale. You can check your sales report in real-time and see every detail of every pro sale you've made. Just choose View Sales History from the tools menu you see at the top of your SmugMug pages when you're logged in. Alternatively, you can find the Business tab in your Account Settings to see a summary, and click Making Money to see your Sales History. Show me th...
Follow these steps to make your own custom watermark. These screen shots are from PS CS2. If you have PS Elements, the steps are identical, though the screens look a bit different. The instructions are also the same for PC or Mac users. If you’d like further help or assistance, come and join in the discussions at Digital Grin’s Finishing School Forum Don’t have time or energy to make you own? Try one of our Sample Wa...
If you've applied your custom watermark to photos and don't see 'em, make sure you've done the following: Check the pixel dimensions of your Original image. We won't apply watermarks to any photo smaller than 801 pixels on the longest side. Apply them using the Gallery Tools button. Find it at the top of your gallery, then choose Many Photos > Watermarking. Give it time! Watermarking can take a few minutes...
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In your sea of galleries, make an island for each event you shoot. Our Event Management tools help simplify browsing and buying so your visitors don't get lost. Let them view their galleries all on one page and easily tag their favorites. Here is an archived webinar that is a great introduction of the Events feature. Create your event Check out the Business tab in your Account Settings and you'll see Events under "Ma...
