SmugMug + Adobe = Match made in heaven?

onethumbonethumb Administrators Posts: 1,269 Major grins
edited April 9, 2008 in SmugMug Support
We can finally talk about it! Together, Adobe and SmugMug have integrated sharing into Photoshop Elements 5 - and it rocks.

The press release.

The help section.

Adobe Uploading Help Page

It should be hitting store shelves soon, so grab a copy or an upgrade and go to town.

Don
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  • richWrichW Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Thats great news Don.
    This gives me a good reason to upgrade from 3.0 to 5.0
    Thanks Smugmug team for your great work...
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    onethumb wrote:
    We can finally talk about it! Together, Adobe and SmugMug have integrated sharing into Photoshop Elements 5 - and it rocks.

    The press release.

    The help section.

    It should be hitting store shelves soon, so grab a copy or an upgrade and go to town.

    Don

    That's quite a marketing coup for Smugmug and a great feature for those who use PSE. Congratulations.

    Any plans to do anything for those of us who have graduated beyond PSE? I'm now using CS2 and Bridge and will probably use Lightroom when it's done.
    --John
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  • SteveMSteveM Registered Users Posts: 482 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Wow Don. Just, wow. The industry megagiant recognizing and promoting Smugmug? Wow. That's an incredible shot in the arm, but leads me to worry. Are million dollar condos going to be springing up in our little Smugmug town? Hope you're ready for some more OT! :) Congrats.

    Steve
    http://www.downriverphotography.com
    Steve Mills
    BizDev Account Manager
    Image Specialist & Pro Concierge

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  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited September 14, 2006
    SteveM wrote:
    Wow Don. Just, wow. The industry megagiant recognizing and promoting Smugmug? Wow.
    Imagine how we felt when we got the call from them! They just really liked how photos looked in SmugMug galleries and everything fell together so naturally.

    They're even placing a printed booklet inside the box.

    The headline to our section is, "Discover why 150,000 people are feeling so smug about their photos." rolleyes1.gif
    My Smug Mug
  • BarbBarb Administrators Posts: 3,352 SmugMug Employee
    edited September 14, 2006
    Baldy wrote:
    Imagine how we felt when we got the call from them! They just really liked how photos looked in SmugMug galleries and everything fell together so naturally.

    They're even placing a printed booklet inside the box.

    The headline to our section is, "Discover why 150,000 people are feeling so smug about their photos." rolleyes1.gif

    clap.gifclapclap.gif
    Barb
    Smug since 2006
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  • ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Baldy wrote:
    Imagine how we felt when we got the call from them! They just really liked how photos looked in SmugMug galleries and everything fell together so naturally.

    They're even placing a printed booklet inside the box.

    The headline to our section is, "Discover why 150,000 people are feeling so smug about their photos." rolleyes1.gif
    rolleyes1.gifThat's funny, and great! clap.gifclapclap.gif
    Ivar
    www.ivarborst.nl & smugmug
  • jfriendjfriend Registered Users Posts: 8,097 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Baldy wrote:
    Imagine how we felt when we got the call from them! They just really liked how photos looked in SmugMug galleries and everything fell together so naturally.

    They're even placing a printed booklet inside the box.

    The headline to our section is, "Discover why 150,000 people are feeling so smug about their photos." rolleyes1.gif

    It's nice to know that good things happen to people that work hard and offer a great product and service!
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    smugmug iloveyou.gif adobe

    adobe iloveyou.gif smugmug

    :D Nice!
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
  • redcrownredcrown Registered Users Posts: 60 Big grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Rats! Smugmug in bed with Adobe. I was afraid of that, and I predicted it here a couple weeks ago.

    I smell the buyout coming. By January, SmugAdobe "upgrades" will be $169 and come every 18 months. These great support forums will be replaced by FAQs, and Knowledgebases.

    Andy's site will have nothing but pictures of guys sitting on a beach sipping from drinks that have little umbrellas.
    Kelly Chamberlain
    http://www.kellyphoto.smugmug.com/
  • jmpsmashjmpsmash Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    how about some discount for smugmug member? i have a copy of PSE4 and i love the interface, but now i have to think about paying $70 for the upgrade... :(
  • BenBen Vanilla Admin Posts: 513 SmugMug Employee
    edited September 14, 2006
    Want to see how it works? I whipped up a little demo to show how slick the integration is.

    See it here.
    Smug since 2003
  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited September 14, 2006
    Very slick...looks like they managed to speed up the image processing on smugmug's end too Laughing.gif!!!rolleyes1.gif
    Photos
  • BenBen Vanilla Admin Posts: 513 SmugMug Employee
    edited September 14, 2006
    cmason wrote:
    Very slick...looks like they managed to speed up the image processing on smugmug's end too Laughing.gif!!!rolleyes1.gif

    :D

    I actually recorded it normally. It makes it look a little jerky for the transition, based on the way it records and displays, but I hit the button and up popped my galleries with them processed!
    Smug since 2003
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Ben (or Don?)
    Ben wrote:
    Want to see how it works? I whipped up a little demo to show how slick the integration is.

    See it here.

    This nice demo of yours definitely does not look like production API we're only allowed to use...ne_nau.gif
    Is this integration for Adobe only, or us independent developers can get ahold of that special API/protocol, too? headscratch.gif
    Thanks!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • onethumbonethumb Administrators Posts: 1,269 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    This nice demo of yours definitely does not look like production API we're only allowed to use...ne_nau.gif
    Is this integration for Adobe only, or us independent developers can get ahold of that special API/protocol, too? headscratch.gif
    Thanks!

    It uses the production API, same as everything else.

    Don
  • greenpeagreenpea Registered Users Posts: 880 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Nikolai wrote:
    This nice demo of yours definitely does not look like production API we're only allowed to use...ne_nau.gif
    Is this integration for Adobe only, or us independent developers can get ahold of that special API/protocol, too? headscratch.gif
    Thanks!

    Don't worry Nikolai, I'll still use StarExplorer, and continue to recommend it to all my friends. :D At least until they come out with a version of Adobe PSE5 that I can use from my flash key.
    Andrew
    initialphotography.smugmug.com

    "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Don,
    onethumb wrote:
    It uses the production API, same as everything else.

    Don

    Thanks for the quick reply!

    So, from the PSE5 they jumped to SM website, created a gallery, somehow returned the ID of this gallery back to PSE5 and initiated the upload.

    I can understand the selection of the files and the nice progress bar, but what production API let them return an ID of a freshly created (on the SM website!) gallery back to PSE5? headscratch.gif Am I missing something? ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    mwink.gif sexy!
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
  • scwalterscwalter Registered Users Posts: 417 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    As a beta test for PSE5, can I report bugs or feature requests here?

    The first time I tried to upload pictures, I had chosen a raw file (easy to do if you don't have filenames turned on when viewing thumbnails). Smugmug gladly spent a bunch of time uploading the file and then presented me with an empty gallery. My upload log stated that the file was rejected because it was the wrong file type.

    This is obviously user error, but it would be nice if smugmug checked for the correct extension before uploading.

    -Scott
    Scott Walter Photography
    scwalter.smugmug.com
  • jmpsmashjmpsmash Registered Users Posts: 33 Big grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Ben wrote:
    Want to see how it works? I whipped up a little demo to show how slick the integration is.

    See it here.

    sweet!

    i wish my uploads are *that* fast...
  • PamelaPamela Registered Users Posts: 453 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Wow!
    That is wonderful!clap.gif

    Are other versions of adobe photoshop going to work the same way?
    If not, does PSE5, allow user to do channel mixing?
    Thankyou

    Pamela

    www.exposedimages.net
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Pamela wrote:
    Wow!
    That is wonderful!clap.gif

    Are other versions of adobe photoshop going to work the same way?
    If not, does PSE5, allow user to do channel mixing?
    PSE 5 does allow channel mixing.
    Andy

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  • ervwalterervwalter Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited September 15, 2006
    Nice! Will it support automatic photo rotation based on orientation metadata? I don't manually rotate all my photos because PSE displays them correctly using the orientation metadata. I used to find it frustrating to have to manually rotate photos on smugmug (even in bulk mode) after exporting from PSE and uploading. I just finished tweaking Sendtosmugmug so that it auto rotates before it uploads. I'd happily switch to the new feature that will be built into PSE, but only if I don't have to go back to manually rotating photos mwink.gif
  • Matthew SavilleMatthew Saville Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,352 Major grins
    edited September 16, 2006
    onethumb wrote:
    We can finally talk about it! Together, Adobe and SmugMug have integrated sharing into Photoshop Elements 5 - and it rocks.

    The press release.

    The help section.

    It should be hitting store shelves soon, so grab a copy or an upgrade and go to town.

    Don

    This is a GOOD path to go down. Personally I don't use Elements, but if uploading from Adobe Bridge comes next, I will be absolutely ecstatic.

    -Matt-
    “My first thought is always of light.” – Galen Rowell
    My SmugMug Portfolio • My Astro-Landscape Photo Blog • Dgrin Weddings Forum
  • Matthew SavilleMatthew Saville Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,352 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2006
    Bump
    Matthew Saville wrote:
    This is a GOOD path to go down. Personally I don't use Elements, but if uploading from Adobe Bridge comes next, I will be absolutely ecstatic.

    -Matt-
    Update: I thought I'd bump this topic up and mention that while originally I could not upload photos from my Adobe Bridge browser, Now all of a sudden I can! I am absolutely elated about this. It is so handy to not have to leave Bridge when it comes time for me to drag-and-drop upload!

    -Matt-

    [EDIT] Okay, it worked once (seriously, it did!) but now it's just saying "processing image" for way to long on these others I've uploaded. The funny thing is, it brings up the java dialog box that says it's uploading, and it seems to upload the file perfectly fine. Any ideas, SmugMug?

    [EDIT 2] Or maybe SmugMug is just taking a while tonight. I've got "processing image" for everything I upload now, even from Windows explorer...
    “My first thought is always of light.” – Galen Rowell
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  • BenA2BenA2 Registered Users Posts: 364 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2006
    Matthew Saville wrote:
    [EDIT] Okay, it worked once (seriously, it did!) but now it's just saying "processing image" for way to long on these others I've uploaded. The funny thing is, it brings up the java dialog box that says it's uploading, and it seems to upload the file perfectly fine. Any ideas, SmugMug?

    [EDIT 2] Or maybe SmugMug is just taking a while tonight. I've got "processing image" for everything I upload now, even from Windows explorer...
    I bet the "processing image" issue is a Smugmug-side problem (heavy traffic taking it's time getting through the processors). If you're getting those thumbnails, you're pictures have at least been uploaded, so the upload process worked.

    For what it's worth, I upload from Bridge, using drag and drop, to the Java uploader all the time, and it has never failed. That's typically uploading 30-50, 1.2 MB files.
    Ben

         www.ackersphotography.com
  • ervwalterervwalter Registered Users Posts: 21 Big grins
    edited September 29, 2006
    ervwalter wrote:
    Nice! Will it support automatic photo rotation based on orientation metadata? I don't manually rotate all my photos because PSE displays them correctly using the orientation metadata. I used to find it frustrating to have to manually rotate photos on smugmug (even in bulk mode) after exporting from PSE and uploading. I just finished tweaking Sendtosmugmug so that it auto rotates before it uploads. I'd happily switch to the new feature that will be built into PSE, but only if I don't have to go back to manually rotating photos mwink.gif

    Oh, well. I just tried the upload from PSE 5.0 and it didn't do rotation correctly. Photos that display as rotated correctly in PSE 5.0 (due to proper Exif orientation info) do not appear rotated when uploaded with the integrated uploader. Since smugmug does not look at the orientation flag in the photo itself, I was hoping that maybe PSE would pre-roate them when it was "preparing images", but it appears not to.

    I like the other new features of PSE 5.0, but I, unfortunatly, won't be using the smugmug integration because I don't have the time nor patience to manually rotate my photos after upload. I'll stick with my tweaked version of sendtosmugmug for now.
  • greenpeagreenpea Registered Users Posts: 880 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    Bulk Image Geo-coding
    One more "smugmug + adobe = match made in heaven" pitch...

    PSE 5 has a geo-coding feature! (PSE 4 might have had this feature too, don't know, I'm upgrading from PSE 3).

    In the photo organizer, just click on the globe link, you get a yahoo map, find the spot where the pic was taken and drag the photo or photos on to that spot on the map and upload it to smugmug. Your pics are ready to view on http://maps.smugmug.com/!
    clap.gif
    Andrew
    initialphotography.smugmug.com

    "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited October 1, 2006
    greenpea wrote:
    One more "smugmug + adobe = match made in heaven" pitch...

    PSE 5 has a geo-coding feature! (PSE 4 might have had this feature too, don't know, I'm upgrading from PSE 3).

    In the photo organizer, just click on the globe link, you get a yahoo map, find the spot where the pic was taken and drag the photo or photos on to that spot on the map and upload it to smugmug. Your pics are ready to view on http://maps.smugmug.com/!
    clap.gif
    Oh snap!
    Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.

    http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
  • wellmanwellman Registered Users Posts: 961 Major grins
    edited October 2, 2006
    This is fantastic!!! My plea for the future to Adobe... PLEASE incorporate an "Export to Smugmug" function in the production release of Lightroom! I would pay $50 more for the software if it did.

    -Greg
    Greg Wellman
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