How do you share a SmugMug gallery?

SmugMug is a popular photo sharing and gallery hosting platform. With SmugMug, you can easily create beautiful online galleries to showcase and share your photos. There are several ways to share your SmugMug gallery with others. This article will walk you through the different options for sharing your SmugMug gallery.

Ways to Share your SmugMug Gallery

Share Gallery Link

The easiest way to share your SmugMug gallery is to share the gallery page link. You can copy and share this link with anyone you want to provide access to your gallery.

When someone visits the gallery page with this link, they will be able to view all the photos in that gallery. This is the quickest way to share your gallery publicly.

Share Secure Gallery Link

You can also generate a secure gallery link to share your gallery privately with specific people. This link can only be accessed by those you share it with.

To get a secure link, go to your gallery settings and toggle the 'Share Privately' option. This will generate a new link that you can share.

Share via Social Media

Another great way to share your SmugMug gallery is by sharing it on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.

You can easily share your gallery page link or individual photos on your social media profiles. The photos will link back to your SmugMug gallery.

Embed Gallery

You can embed your SmugMug gallery on any website or blog by getting the gallery embed code. Just go to your gallery settings and copy the embed code.

Paste this code into your site HTML and the gallery will be displayed as a slideshow or thumbnail view.

Email Gallery

SmugMug allows you to email your gallery to anyone directly from the gallery page. Just enter the email addresses and an optional message.

The recipient will get an email with a link to directly access your gallery. You can also enable gallery download in the email to allow downloading photos.

Share via Text Message

Another way to quickly share your gallery is by texting the gallery link to your friends and family. The recipient can simply click the link in the text message to view your SmugMug gallery.

Share via QR Code

You can also generate a QR code for your SmugMug gallery URL. Other people can then scan this QR code on their phone to instantly access your gallery page.

Share via Social Promo Image

Create a custom social promo image for your SmugMug gallery with the gallery link. You can share this image on social media so that people can click through to your gallery.

Share Individual Images

Instead of sharing the entire gallery, you can also share specific images from the gallery individually. Just click the share button on an image to get its direct link to share.

You can also download the high-res image to share if you have that option enabled. This allows sharing select images rather than the full gallery.

Customize Gallery Sharing

Set Password Protection

You can set a password for your SmugMug gallery to restrict access. Only those you share the password with will be able to view the gallery.

Go to your gallery settings and enable password protection. Set a strong password and share it privately.

Allow Downloads

By default, SmugMug prevents gallery visitors from downloading your original images. You can change this in your settings.

Enable the 'Allow Downloads' option to let people download your high-res images from the gallery.

Disable Right-Click

To prevent unauthorized downloads, you can disable right-click on your SmugMug gallery images. This will prevent people from saving your photos.

Go to your gallery settings and toggle 'Disable Right-Click' to enable this protection.

Set Print Options

You can customize if you want to allow printing photos from your SmugMug gallery. Disable printing entirely or enable it with watermarks.

Set your preferred print settings in the gallery options. This lets you control how people can print your pictures.

Allow Comments

By default, visitors can leave comments on your SmugMug gallery and images. You can disable comments if you do not want feedback.

Go to gallery settings and turn off the 'Allow Comments' option to disable user comments.

Hide Gallery from Search

You can hide your SmugMug gallery from search engines if you want to keep it private. Toggle the 'Hide from Search Engines' option.

This will prevent your gallery from appearing in any public search engine results.

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Conclusion

Sharing your SmugMug gallery with friends, family, and followers is easy with the many built-in sharing options. Take advantage of gallery links, social media, embeds, email, and more to showcase your photos to your audience. Customize the sharing settings to control access as per your preference. With its flexible sharing capabilities, SmugMug makes it simple to get your gallery in front of the people who matter.