Journal photos with SmugMug and PicLens

:: Monday, June 23rd, 2008 @ 10:45:17 pm

:: Tags: Computers, Photo

After convincing Adam Tow to support PicLens, I’ve integrated a pre-release version of his wp-smugmug plug-in, which will let me inline SmugMug galleries into journal entries. Because it’s so easy to do now, I may end up switching to SmugMug for my main journal image hosting. I’ll probably continue to mirror content on Flickr as well.

UPDATE I’m still over at Adam’s place, and convinced him to enable Lightbox support in conjunction with PicLens. It’s just about perfect now. :)

As a test, I’d like to present some of the underwater photos I have hosted over at SmugMug. Enjoy!

Assorted Underwater Photos by Eric Cheng

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View these photos at SmugMug

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:: 7 comments (rss)

1. posted by tow.com » blog » PicLens now on tow.com on Mon, June 23, 2008 @ 11:07 pm

   [...] much prodding from Eric and Paul (who works at the company), I finally got around to installing PicLens on my computer. I [...]

2. posted by EggRollMonster on Mon, June 23, 2008 @ 11:53 pm

   Hey Eric, I saw your screaming turtle picture in SF’s Japantown last weekend. The restaurant did mention your name for the photo credit. Love your pictures.

3. posted by Luna on Wed, June 25, 2008 @ 11:59 am

   Hi Eric,

   Thank you for posting about PicLens! We truly appreciate it.

   We’re delighted to hear that you are enjoying PicLens 1.7 with the three new additions: Discover, Shop Amazon, and Return to PicLens.

   For interested readers, please see our demo at http://piclens.com/demo and learn more at http://blog.cooliris.com.

   Thanks again, Luna and The Cooliris Team

4. posted by Underwater World » Blog Archive » Smugmug Gallery integration and PicLens Support on Sat, June 28, 2008 @ 8:12 am

   [...] either Lightbox or PicLens. Ive been prompted to finally finish this by my friend Eric Cheng, who added this to his blog recently as [...]

5. posted by Jeff on Tue, July 15, 2008 @ 9:25 am

   Any idea when this plugin might be released? I’d love to use this! - Jeff

6. posted by Chester on Tue, July 15, 2008 @ 9:31 am

   Does the gallery “plug in” via a single sort of container reference to the Smugmug gallery or does it generate a bunch of references for each individual photo? That is…using this method, you are totally reliant on IPTC fields, captions, etc. for text and cannot intersperse your own into the web post, right? That is…it just replicates your Smugmug gallery with PicLens support, right?

   Sooner or later I think I have to get over my anal-retentive insistence on mixing photos and text precisely the way I want to, just for the sake of speed…

7. posted by echeng on Tue, July 15, 2008 @ 2:38 pm

   Chester - you just copy the RSS feed for the Smugmug gallery into a custom field in Wordpress. Done. Captions are an option, but I have them turned off.

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