Smugmug, Flickr, ImageShack, Minus, Photobucket, and other photo hosting services are compared. Key features like maximum galleries, file size limits, customization options, and language support are outlined for each service. The document also includes ratings for user-friendliness, speed, design, and global presence for some services. Finally, it provides a tutorial on how to create a gallery and upload photos on Smugmug.

1. ACTIVITY 02-01 IN-CLOUD
GALLERIES COMPARISON
Emmanuel Asilo
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Applications Web

2. SMUGMUG
Smugmug Features
Maximum number of
galleries
Infinite
Maximum Capacity
(MB)
Max 50 Mb (photo size)
Allows costumizing? Yes
Titles at the picture Yes
Labels Yes
Private Galleries Yes
Download allowed Yes
Spanish No
Catalan No
Smugmug is a paid photo-sharing website and image hosting service which allows users to
upload both HD photos and videos to their Smugmug sites. It was Launched in 2002.
Smugmug has options to allow control over the privacy and security of published photos. They
have support for both account-level and gallery-level passwords, as well as hidden galleries.
CHARACTERISTICS

3. PERSONAL RATING SMUGMUG
Rate
User-Friendly 8
Speed 9
Design 9
Global 9

4. Flickr is a website that allows you store, sort, search, and share your photos online. The free
version of Flickr allows you to upload up to 20MB of photos each month (a paid version with a
2GB limit is available for $24.95/year).
FLICKR
Flickr Features
Maximum number of
galleries
Unlimited
Maximum Capacity
(MB)
Video can be up to 1
GB in size
Individual photos can
be up to 200MB.
Allows costumizing? Yes
Titles at the picture Yes
Labels Yes
Private Galleries Yes
Download allowed Yes
Spanish Yes
Catalan No
CHARACTERISTICS

5. Rate
User-Friendly 7
Speed 8
Design 8
Global 8
PERSONAL RATING FLICKR

6. IMAGESHACK
Image Shack is a subscription-based image hosting website headquartered at Los
Gatos, California. The site was launched in November 2003. It can be used to upload
and share images across a variety of popular platforms.
ImageShack Features
Maximum number of galleries Unlimited
Maximum Capacity (MB) ImageShack allows unlimited
bandwidth for images.
Trial: 10GB/Month
Basic: 30GB/month
Pro: 30 gb to 1tb/month
Premium: 1 to 4gb/month
Allows costumizing? Yes
Titles at the picture Yes
Labels Yes
Private Galleries Yes
Download allowed Yes
Spanish No
Catalan No
CHARACTERISTICS

7. PERSONAL RATING IMAGESHACK
Rate
User-Friendly 7
Speed 7
Design 9
Global 8

8. MINUS
Minus is a fun new way to share photos and chat with people nearby. Founded by Carl and
John in September of 2010, Minus started with a mission to simplify the way people share
photos around the web. We can download it too through our phones with Android and IOS.
Minus Features
Maximum number of
galleries
Infinite
Maximum Capacity
(MB)
File size: 2GB
Limit storage: 10 GB
Allows costumizing? Yes
Titles at the picture Yes
Labels Yes
Private Galleries Yes
Download allowed Yes
Spanish No
Catalan No
CHARACTERISTICS

9. PERSONAL RATING MINUS
Rate
User-Friendly 8
Speed 6
Design 7
Global 7

10. PHOTOBUCKET
Photobucket Features
Maximum number of galleries Infinite
Maximum Capacity (MB) There are no size limits in regards
to uploading images, and all images
are uploaded in their original size.
Video limit: 500 MB or less, and 10
minutes or less.
Allows costumizing? Yes
Titles at the picture Yes
Labels Yes
Private Galleries Yes
Download allowed Yes
Spanish No
Catalan No
CHARACTERISTICS
Photobucket is the premier destination for uploading, downloading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos
and graphics. We can host all our images and videos for free, then we can share them by email or on social
sites like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. It was founded in 2003 by fox interactive media.

11. PERSONAL RATING PHOTOBUCKET
Rate
User-Friendly 7
Speed 6
Design 8
Global 7

12. I choose the application smugmug because its cool, its easy to use and it has amazing designs.
I’m going to show you how to create a gallery and upload photos.
Lets start!
TUTORIAL ABOUT SMUGMUG

13. DESIGN
First of all we need to register in smugmug. Then select a design that we want. In my case i choose
the design Dina.

14. CREATE GALLERY
In the menu there’s 4 options we are going to select Create. Then we need to put the name of the gallery in my
case School Joan Pelegrí. In the privacy level we can use public or private. I choose private. To finish click to
create.

15. UPLOAD PHOTOS
In this step we once we create the gallery we need to upload some photos. I uploaded some photos of
School Joan Pelegrí school. Once the upload is complete we need to click to done to finish.
It’s going to be like this once we create the
gallery. As we can see there’s the design Dina.