/articles/2006/07/03/moving-from-eyelook-to-smugmug en-us 40 A little short for a storm trooper <p>I needed to host photos from a recent trip to New Zealand. I started modifying <a href="http://www.realityforge.org/articles/2006/04/21/eyelook-rails-photo-gallery">eyelook</a> to make it easier to do what I wanted such as geocoding, bulk upload, hierarchial grouping, different sizes, different layouts, themes etc. It was taking a bit of time so I decided to look around at existing services but none of them suited my needs.</p> <p>Then I found <a href="http://www.smugmug.com/">SmugMug</a> and I was hooked. This is the best photo-sharing service I have seen. It seems to be aimed at professional photographers &#8211; there is no free version but you get what you pay for. It is far from perfect but there is no way I would consider anything else at this stage.</p> <p>Luckily it has a referral system that gets you $5 off your first year if you indicate an account that got you onto the system so I got mine a little cheaper. I also helped out the friend that referred me by making it a little cheaper for them next year. If anyone wants to get same deal, it&#8217;s simple: enter my email address ( peter at realityforge dot org ) or my coupon ( EqCTz7hz7wkW2 ) in the &#8216;Referred by&#8217; field on the signup form and you get $5 off.</p> <p>Best photo sharing service yet!</p> Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:33:00 +1000 urn:uuid:529c40a4-745d-4737-821e-c38cb20aface Peter Donald http://www.realityforge.org/articles/2006/07/03/moving-from-eyelook-to-smugmug http://www.realityforge.org/articles/trackback/61