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Advantages of Smugmug fulfillment: Customer can place an order 24 hrs a day via the web with a wide variety of sizes, prints and finish choices. Orders are shipped directly to the customer so you don't have to deal with shipping, mailing or delivery. Credit card payment through Smugmug. Smugmug help desk available to help your customers with any order ...

Everything on SmugMug just "works" from the UK, so there's really no difference right now. We just added the ability to buy in your local currency, so you'll find GBP in the shopping cart now. Today, prints and gifts will be fulfilled by our US Labs. But soon that will change. It's the #1 feature request on our feedback forum and it's not being ignored. ...

It is my understanding that Bay Photo as well as SmugMug do not accept JPEG 2000 files. JPEG 2000 has not really caught on due to many reasons that I outlined in this previous answer. SmugMug(excluding SmugVault and video file types) supports JPEG, GIF, and PNG files. Note that PNG files cannot be printed from SmugMug either. JPEG 2000 is its own format ...

Only a few browsers these days are color managed and actually recognize and respond to an image's color space. If you try to view an image that is not in sRGB (like AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB) in a non-color-aware browser, the colors will look absolutely horrible. So ... if you want decent display of images in non-color-aware browsers like IE and Chrome, then ...

Why sRGB? For consistency throughout. Some web browsers are still not color-aware making it impossible to accurately represent photos in colorspaces outside of sRGB to all people. Browsers that are not color aware 'assume' images are in sRGB. Consistency, and accuracy of representation are extremely important to photographers. Most commercial labs ...

There are many reasons that this can happen - but the most typical reason is that your monitor is lying to you - most monitors are set too-bright, thus fooling you into thinking the photo is perfectly exposed. The next thing is that monitors are back-lit where as physical prints use reflected light. Nailing the exposure is critical, rely on the histogram ...

You can find general suggestions on the SmugMug 'too dark' help article. For specific assistance, email the HelpDesk with links to a couple of photos for us to look at.

Great answer by @jfriend00, plus: - shipping cost only happens once- from the LAB to the client - with smugmug you can set up your own branding. The product gets to your client with your own sticker on the box and a thank you print 100% customized by you. I use the print to thank them and remind them to like us on Facebook and recommend our shop. During the ...

The first step is to make sure that your monitor is color calibrated. Some ways to validate that you have done that correctly exist in this previous answer: How can I Validate that my monitor is color calibrated? Once you have that set, you need to look at the color space that you are embedding in your images, and make sure that that matches what the ...

I am afraid that this is not possible at this time. You might want to add your vote here to have that added as a feature. http://feedback.smugmug.com/forums/17723-smugmug/suggestions/233655-let-us-have-a-self-fulfillment-print-order-capabil

Using one of the SmugMug affiliated printshops would be an excellent choice if you would require a guided process. However, a professional would use software like Adobe InDesign to achieve a high degree of freedom in the design and layout of the book. Here is an example of a book my girlfriend made recently like that. By incident she had it printed with ...

In addition to the pointer from dpollitt I also recommend that you order a calibration print from SmugMug to use for reference. I keep my monitors calibrated using Huey Pro and soft proof before I send to the printer. However the two final steps I do is calibrate my reference for lack of a better phrase by looking at the calibration print and the image on ...