Announcing a New SmugMug Uploader: smupload

dinsdale23432

I needed to write a tool for moving my photos to SmugMug and thought
someone else might find it useful as well. It's called "smupload" and is
available for free at:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/smupload/

If you're interested download the latest version of the "smupload"
package. For those interested in the source code, this is available
in the "smupload-src" package. Just go to the "download" section
of the above webpage.

It requires that you run the application on a system with Java 1.5 or
better. I've managed to do some nominal validation on Linux and MacOSX
systems but primarily tested on Windows (XP and Vista).

This is not a general-purpose uploader, but rather one that simply uses
the date taken for every photo and uploads the photos to a per-month
gallery. More specifically, it uses (creating if necessary) a category
called "Photo Archive" (the name is configurable), a subcategory for each
year, and a gallery for each month. Thanks to Wendee Stevens of
SmugMug support for giving me the idea.

The date taken is obtained from the internal info in your jpeg files.

It has a few configurationable options (such as whether to use square
thumbs or not) but tries to be quite minimal and automatic rather than
richly functional/configurable.

Feel free to try it out if you think this form of uploading fits the way
you want to organize your photos. My approach is to do this first to
get the files up to the SmugMug site and then use the SmugMug tools
to copy the photos into theme-based galleries.

And, of course, please post any issues you find with the application.

rkalla

dinsdale,

+1 just for the name alone, it's great. Congrats on the new app!