My Flickr Conversion Journal
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I'm well along the way to moving my primary image hosting away from Flickr and a self hosted Gallery2 installation, to SmugMug. So far things are going pretty good.
1) With the help of Smugglr I now have a copy on SmugMug of everything I had on Flickr. I'm doing all this from Egypt from hotel rooms so I wasn't able to do everything in one shot. If your connection drops, the transfer of files will stop. This happened several time with me. I eventually got it all done over 3 days. If someone ever goes back and looks at the Smugglr code, this could be an issue to look at.
2) I have begun uploading the glut of images I have on my laptop that I have been unable to upload to Flickr since I've been in the Middle East. MacDaddy has proven itself to be better than any Flickr uploader I've seen in one major respect: it will keep trying if the file transfer fails. I can let it run overnight and it will keep going and not quit. It could use some polish to be on a par with the default Flickr uploader, but it gets the job done and is better in what is the most important department for me.
3) I have to go and put captions on every image by hand. I'd like it to grab the caption from the image name, minus the .jpg extension. This is an added step in the workflow for me. There might very well be a way to do this that I am unaware of.
4) I'm now linking to SmugMug for all the new images I put on my blog. The system of linking different size images is very nice and is going to let me launch several projects in the next two weeks I've been dying to do. SmugMug maked it much easier. This has improved my work flow from what it was before. I do wish they had some sort of SEO friendly naming system for photos.
5) My next step is customization of my page. I'm launching a new design of my website in a few days and I want to make it mesh with my new site. This would obviously be impossible with Flickr. I'm also going to develop a store as well.
6) I'm going to have to replace all the old links to Flickr and Gallery2 by hand. That is going to suck, but there isn't a way around it.
Overall, I'm a pretty happy camper. I don't know if it is just an illusion, but my photos seem to look better on SmugMug.
1) With the help of Smugglr I now have a copy on SmugMug of everything I had on Flickr. I'm doing all this from Egypt from hotel rooms so I wasn't able to do everything in one shot. If your connection drops, the transfer of files will stop. This happened several time with me. I eventually got it all done over 3 days. If someone ever goes back and looks at the Smugglr code, this could be an issue to look at.
2) I have begun uploading the glut of images I have on my laptop that I have been unable to upload to Flickr since I've been in the Middle East. MacDaddy has proven itself to be better than any Flickr uploader I've seen in one major respect: it will keep trying if the file transfer fails. I can let it run overnight and it will keep going and not quit. It could use some polish to be on a par with the default Flickr uploader, but it gets the job done and is better in what is the most important department for me.
3) I have to go and put captions on every image by hand. I'd like it to grab the caption from the image name, minus the .jpg extension. This is an added step in the workflow for me. There might very well be a way to do this that I am unaware of.
4) I'm now linking to SmugMug for all the new images I put on my blog. The system of linking different size images is very nice and is going to let me launch several projects in the next two weeks I've been dying to do. SmugMug maked it much easier. This has improved my work flow from what it was before. I do wish they had some sort of SEO friendly naming system for photos.
5) My next step is customization of my page. I'm launching a new design of my website in a few days and I want to make it mesh with my new site. This would obviously be impossible with Flickr. I'm also going to develop a store as well.
6) I'm going to have to replace all the old links to Flickr and Gallery2 by hand. That is going to suck, but there isn't a way around it.
Overall, I'm a pretty happy camper. I don't know if it is just an illusion, but my photos seem to look better on SmugMug.
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