With the rise of mobile phone photography, it was easy and frictionless to share photos at the moment. So you put up with horrible compression to potentially reach a wider audience.Īnother group of people embraced Instagram (which Facebook bought) for mostly the same reasons. However, nearly everyone has a Facebook account. Different social media and photo-sharing sites rose up to steal much of Flickr’s thunder, and Flickr did little to nothing to remain competitive.įacebook is a horrible place to post your photos due to the aggressive compression applied to your images, but people post there anyway.īecause that’s where everyone else is these days, not everyone has a Flickr account because it primarily appeals to photographers. That headline may upset some people who are still diehard fans of Flickr, but it’s safe to say that Flickr’s community has diminished over the past few years. 1: Flickr Used to Be the Place for Photographers
SmugMug also takes a 15% cut of your online photo sales. Other than that, you pay to use the service. Is SmugMug free? No, but it offers a 14 free trial. SmugMug integrates with Bay Photo for prints or allows you to sell digital downloads.įlickr has a free version of the service supported by ads, but you can pay for an annual membership that provides more features and removes the ads for a relatively small fee. This is where you create SmugMug galleries of photos that you can share publicly or to a limited audience and allow them to purchase your photos through the site. SmugMug is a portfolio site and also a point of sale for photographers.
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