Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

Make a new gallery...collect the photos you want in it. Go to gallery settings, select security and sharing, and select hide owner. It then sets it up like a generic site, just for that galllery with no acess to the rest of your site.

You can then also select your sizes user photo protection.

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

My pleasure.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Randy,

You wrote, "If you click, let me know what you think."

I like what you've done and admire SmugMug.

If you're a Adobe CC subscriber, it includes a "My Portfolio" system. It also includes "Web Gallery" where you can put specific groups of images (like vollyball) together and share a link. The "Web Galleries" are well formated so that people can view on anything with a screen. Those players that live with their phones can see them as well as their parents can on their computers or tablets.

My signature below has a link to my "MyPortfolio". The is a sample of a "Web Gallery": https://adobe.ly/2ETIedP

david vt Loc: Vermont

@Cdouhitt - thanks for taking the time to research. Will check out what you suggested, as it will be helpful for publishing event galleries, or collections, individually.

Let me clarify the question. I can publish individual galleries for events, but if I have 5 galleries collected in a folder (say 2018 XC with 5 meets in it), i cannot seem to get the folder itself to share, and give those I send it to access to the 5 galleries within. Right now, I have to send 5 separate links, one for each event gallery. Seems like I should be able to share the folder via one link published

To all; Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong (I am sure it is just me with Stupid User Error Syndrome!)

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

I have also found the smugmug “heroes” (that what they call their IT support help) to be very responsive and helpful.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

They were on a long down hill slope and the moose gave up after 1/2 mile.
After all he was running in fairly deep snow and those humans were standing on slippery planks letting gravity and the slope do the work.

Bipod

Has anybody here seen SmugMug's current balance sheet? Is the company solvent?
What is it's current asset ratio? Credit rating?

How about it's current Income Statement? Is it profitable?

Oh, it's a private company---all that information is secret. All you know
about it is what the owners/founders chose to tell you. (Which of course,
is only good things.)

No private company in the history of the world ever announced "We are
having trouble paying our bills."

The only way you, their customer, would find out that if the company were
in financial trouble is when it's phone is disconnected.

By that time, they've been evicted and the landlord has tossed your
data into the dumpster. It has no value to him--he can't sell it.

And you can't sue the owners, because it's a corporation. And your service
agreement probably limits your recovery to a refund of fees, or forces
you to use binding arbitration. Has anybody here who is using the
service bothered to read it?

This is how business works. Do not bank your data at the "Bank of SmugMug"--
or any other private service. They are unregulated and lack transparency.

Over the last 50 years, hundreds of computer service providers, time-sharing
bureaus, data farms, etc. have gone out of busienss. Thousands of firms have lost
their data with no recourse.

whlsdn Loc: Colorado

Yep, Bipod, a cloud version of the brick-n-stick cleaners in a nearby town that went out of business holding lots of customers' best suits, coats, shirts, etc. Sadly, no one knew the business was ailing...except the owners and creditors, I suppose. Some may have gotten their things back after the business was liquidated, before rot set in, or customers got too fat to fit in their old things... but the courts move so slowly, the newsies lost interest and I'll never know. Perhaps the clothes were sold to appease creditors. Life's a gamble and justice is scarce.

whlsdn Loc: Colorado

Aha! Lucky for them, robertjerl, he wasn't waiting at the bottom of the slope instead of high up the mountain.

whlsdn Loc: Colorado

Thanks, bsprague, I used to have Photoshop on my Mac back in the old days before retirement and Adobe's move to subscription based monopoly, but all I use now is PS Elements on my laptop. Was never a master of Photoshop, so reluctant to spend the $ and trust myself to dig in enough to justify it.

I'll take a look at your Portfolio!

whlsdn Loc: Colorado

bsprague, love the Surprise, AZ shots. We're headed down to the Valley for the month of March. I like to zip out to the desert with a camera while there.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Have you looked at all the things you get with that monopoly? Except for people on UHH, there seems to be 6 or 7 million people that think the $10 Photography Plan subscription is more than fair.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Thank you for the compliment! Those were taken at what is called the "White Tank County Park". It is east of Phoenix.

whlsdn Loc: Colorado

OH! My ignorance is showing again. The only quote relative to a current Photoshop subscription was shortly after retirement, and it was in the hundreds annually. I'll have to look this $10 thing up! Thanks again.

And for the clue about the location of some good Phx shooting!

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

The "Photography Plan" is an annual commitment with billing at $10 a month. There are two flavors. Both have the two Lightrooms. They also include the "Portfolio" website.

One flavor comes with Photoshop and a little cloud storage and the other comes without Photoshop and lots of cloud storage.

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html