Backup & Transfer your Photos in Minutes

Automate backup & migration of your photos & videos with support for all top services.

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How to Protect Your Images on SmugMug?

SmugMug is the ideal page to upload your photos and videos, and keep them safe. It provides many preventive options to free you from copyright infringement and unauthorized printing issues. You can protect your images on SmugMug from any violation and share with people you wish to.

How to Protect Your Images on SmugMug?

  • Disable Buying Prints
    • SmugMug has ‘Shopping Cart’ option which enables ‘Buy/Add to Cart’ button on each gallery.
    • To turn off printing, go to ‘Gallery Settings’ and turn the ‘Shopping Cart’ toggle ‘OFF’.
  • Turn Off Social Sharing
    • If you don’t want your visitors to share your photos on any social media, disable social sharing.
    • Navigate ‘Gallery Settings’, click ‘Social’ button and turn ‘OFF’ the ‘Show Sharing Options’.
  • Disable Access to Originals
    • You can choose not to display your high resolution original picture on the site.
    • In ‘Gallery Settings’, click ‘Photo Protection’ and select the image size you would like to display.
    • Next, disable the ‘Right-Click Protected’ option. This still allows the user to right click but saves a blank image.
  • Apply Watermark
    • Applying watermarks on images larger than 800 pixels is another option to protect the photos.
    • Select ‘Photo Protection’ tab in the ‘Gallery Settings’ and enable ‘Apply Watermark’.
  • Turn Off Download
    • This option is off when you create a new gallery. If you have turn it on before, then,
    • Go to ‘Gallery Settings’, hit the ‘Photo Protection’ tab.
    • Navigate ‘Download Buttons’ and turn it ‘OFF’.

In this way, you keep your images protected. You can change these gallery settings whenever you want.

253+ Reviews & Counting

Kip Roof testimonial Kip Roofgoogle photos flickr
PicBackMan does exactly what it's supposed to. It's quick and efficient. It runs unobtrusively in the background and has done an excellent job of uploading more than 300GB of photos to 2 different services. After having lost a lot of personal memories to a hard drive crash, it's nice to know that my photos are safe in 2 different places.
Julia Alyea Farella testimonialJulia Alyea Farella smugmug
LOVE this program! Works better than ANY other program out there that I have found to upload thousands of pictures WITH SUB-FOLDERS to SmugMug! Thank you so much for what you do! :) #happycustomer
Pausing Motion testimonialPausingMotionsmugmug
I pointed PicBackMan at a directory structure, and next time I looked - all the photos had uploaded! Pretty cool. I use SmugMug and while I really like it, the process of creating directories in is pretty laborious when you need to make 80+ at a time. This was a breeze. Thank you!
Gavin Whitham testimonialGavin Whithamflickr
PicBackMan was really easy to setup and has been running for 3 days now backing up all my locally saved photos to Flickr. My photos are really valuable to me so it's great to be able to have them easily backed up to a secure location.
 Jim Griffin testimonialJim Griffinsmugmug
It's AWESOME!! I have tens of thousands of pictures...and they are now successfully uploaded to SmugMug, where they are safely backed up, and I can edit and organize them. If you are hesitating about using PicBackMan, hesitate no longer...try it...and you'll be glad you did!!
Robert testimonialRobertonedrive
I started with the basic plan, went to premium and now on their platinum plan and it's more than worth the price for me. PicBackMan has saved me many tedious hours of effort moving many files between my various cloud and photo site services and my local computers.
Pausing Motion testimonialVladdropbox
I am very satisfied and surprised at the same time with Pic BackMan. The service is very good and useful. I used it to transfer my photos from Dropbox to my Flickr accound. I highly recomment it.
Dave testimonialDavesmugmug
PicBackMan was an answer to many a prayer. How can I get this MASSIVE collection of photos onto a service that cripples uploading? PicBackMan. I uploaded approximately 85,000 photos in less than a month. It would have taken me close to a year to get all of those photos where they needed to go. Nothing short of brilliant.
Barry Graham testimonialBarry Grahamflickr
Great tool for enduring your photos are always safely backed up. I backed up tens of thousands of photos and dozens of videos to Flickr in my 1st couple of months using PicBackMan. Would unreservedly recommend as it works seamlessly and copies your photos to Flickr in sets which reflect your folders.
Achal Gupta testimonialAchal Guptaflickr
This is a fantastic piece of software! I wanted to backup 100+ gigs worth of original sized photos to Flickr and after trying many many tools, PickBacMan was the one that finally worked. It worked flawlessly for 10 straight days uploading all my photos without a single error/ timeout/ crash. Absolutely amazing! I didn't try the other premium features but the ability to replicate stuff across multiple...