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In line with the comments I made a few days ago about changes the way I’m sharing photos, I’ve spent some time making some fairly drastic changes to my SmugMug account.

In essence, I’ve done the following:

• Consolidated a lot of smaller galleries into larger galleries.
• Deleted a bunch of galleries that were  holding old stuff.
• Made every single gallery containing personal photographs private and taken the password off each gallery.
• Setup a few SmugMug share groups to give specific people access to those private galleries.

I’ve done this because I want to start pimping my SmugMug account as a place people can go if they want to buy stuff I’ve shot, and I don’t want their experience cluttered with personal galleries. Share groups were the easiest way to do this.

I’m about to send out email messages with the share group URLs in them so friends & family can still get access to the galleries they had before.

A nice side effect of this is that passwords are no longer required to these galleries. Bookmark the share group that I send you, always access my SmugMug account through that URL, and you have password free access to any galleries. When new stuff goes up I’ll just need to add the new gallery to the appropriate share group(s) and you’ll automatically have access if appropriate.

If you’ve lost access to anything on SmugMug, please don’t hesitate to call or email me and I’ll make sure the appropriate share group is in place for you.