KMPhotographers

Photography websites

Your own site instead of SmugMug, with every gallery moved across for you.

A fast portfolio site on your own domain, plus an admin where you upload photos, arrange galleries and change the design yourself. Every screen on this page is fredking.co, which moved off SmugMug this way.

See the plans What's included
The fredking.co homepage
A gallery on fredking.co on a phone
782photos moved from SmugMug
10ready-made styles
6gallery layouts
3 sto publish a change
01The website

What visitors see

Fred King's 16 galleries, live on his own domain. Your site gets the same pages, filled with your photos and your words.

01Homepage

It opens on your best work

A full-screen slideshow of the photos you choose, then every gallery as a mosaic of its cover photos.

  • Slideshow of up to seven photos, in the order you set
  • Your name and a line about what you shoot
  • Photo and gallery counts, a moving filmstrip and an About section, each one optional
  • A Galleries menu that previews each cover as you point at it
Gallery covers on the fredking.co homepage
02Galleries

Six ways to lay out a gallery

Each gallery opens with its title, under a big cover photo if you want one, then the photos in the order you put them.

  • Rows and Masonry show every photo uncropped
  • Square grid for a contact sheet look
  • Gallery wall puts each photo on its own mat
  • Magazine mixes big and small, like a photo book
  • Exhibition shows one large photo at a time, with its title
The Waterfalls gallery on fredking.co
03Viewer

Made for looking at photographs

Click any photo and it fills the screen, with nothing else in the way.

  • Arrow keys on a computer, swipe on a phone
  • Camera, lens, focal length and ISO under each photo, read from the file
  • Full screen, and a button that copies a link to that one photo
  • The controls fade away when the mouse is still
A waterfall open in the photo viewer
Every photo is saved in AVIF at five sizes, 480 to 3200 pixels wide, and each screen loads the size it needs
A soft blurred preview in the photo's own colours shows while it loads
Pages are plain files served from Cloudflare's network, with nothing to run on each visit
If the admin is ever offline, the website keeps running
A sitemap for search engines, and share previews that show a gallery's cover photo
Your own domain, served over https

This website, with your photos on it.

See the plans Look around fredking.co
02Styles

Ten ready-made styles

Each style sets the colours, lettering, gallery layout and photo viewer together. Pick one, then change any part of it. Here is the same gallery of Fred's in eight of them.

Darkroom style
DarkroomDark, warm and cinematic
Gallery White style
Gallery WhiteBright walls and matted prints
Contact Sheet style
Contact SheetFilm-lab squares and typewriter notes
Midnight style
MidnightDeep blue with a pinboard of photos
Warm Print style
Warm PrintEspresso tones and white mats
Exhibition style
ExhibitionOne big photo at a time, titled
Field Notes style
Field NotesForest greens and classic type
Editorial style
EditorialWarm paper and magazine spreads

All ten styles come with every plan, and you can switch any time.

See the plans See one live on fredking.co
03The admin

Run it yourself

You sign in to your own admin with your email address. Change as much as you like: nothing goes on the website until you press Publish.

01Photos

Drop photos in, drag them into order

Drag photos from your computer onto a gallery and they are made ready for the web while you carry on.

  • JPEG, PNG, TIFF or WebP, up to 200 MB each
  • Titles come from the file names, and you can change any of them
  • Drag to reorder photos, and to reorder the galleries themselves
  • Set a gallery's cover, move a photo to another gallery or delete it
Editing a gallery in the admin
02Design

Restyle the site without a designer

Start from one of the ten styles, then fine-tune it with a live preview beside you.

  • Eight backgrounds, from Darkroom to Gallery white
  • Ten highlight colours, or your own
  • Seven sets of lettering, from clean modern to fine-art serif
  • Photo size, spacing, corners, frames, hover effects and titles
  • Preview the homepage, a gallery or About, on a computer or a phone
The Design tab with a live preview
03Publish

It goes live when you say so

Your changes wait in a draft, and a bar across the top reminds you they aren't on the website yet.

  • Publish puts everything live in about three seconds
  • Undo all changes puts the draft back to what's live
  • Deleted photos and galleries wait in the Trash for 30 days
  • A copy of every version you publish is kept
The admin with unpublished changes waiting
Choose the homepage slideshow photos and drag them into order
Edit the homepage and About page text
Give each gallery a name and a short description
Big batches upload in the background, so you can keep working
Only the people you add can sign in
Works in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone

The admin comes with every plan, from A$21 a month.

See the plans Send an enquiry
04Moving

Leaving SmugMug

We do the move. You look it over before anything changes for your visitors.

  1. We copy every galleryEvery gallery and photo comes across, with its title, description and order, using the largest copy SmugMug holds of each photo.
  2. We keep your originalsThe originals go into private storage, apart from the website. JPEGs are repacked losslessly, so not a pixel changes. The web copies are made from them.
  3. You check itThe new site runs on a preview address first, so you can look through every gallery.
  4. We switch your domainWhen you're happy, your domain points at the new site and you can close your SmugMug account.

Videos aren't moved across: the site is for photographs.

The move is included in every plan.

See the plans Send us your SmugMug address
05Plans

Pick a plan

Every plan has everything on this page. Plans differ only in how much room you get for your originals. Prices in Australian dollars, billed monthly.

100 GB

Portfolio

A$21/ month

For a portfolio of your best work.

  • 100 GB for your original files
  • As many galleries as you like
  • Your SmugMug galleries moved across for you
  • Your own domain
Ask about Portfolio
500 GB

Studio

A$50/ month

For working photographers with years of shoots.

  • 500 GB for your original files
  • As many galleries as you like
  • Your SmugMug galleries moved across for you
  • Your own domain
Ask about Studio
Most room 1 TB

Archive

A$60/ month

For a whole career of photographs in one place.

  • 1 TB for your original files
  • As many galleries as you like
  • Your SmugMug galleries moved across for you
  • Your own domain
Ask about Archive

Storage counts your original files only; the web copies we make don't use any of it. Move up a plan any time.

06Questions

Good to know

Do I need to know anything technical?

No. We set the site up, move your galleries and connect your domain. After that you upload and arrange photos in the admin, the way you would on SmugMug.

What happens to my original files?

They're kept in private storage, separate from the website, with every pixel as you uploaded it. Visitors only ever see the web copies made from them.

Can I sell prints or share private client galleries?

Not today. The site is for showing your work: print sales, proofing and password-protected galleries aren't part of it. Tell us if you need them.

Can I upload photos from my phone?

Yes. The admin works in a phone's browser, and photos from an iPhone upload as JPEGs.

What if I run out of room?

Move up a plan any time. If you need more than 1 TB, ask us.

Still deciding? The plans differ only in storage.

See the plans Ask us a question
07Enquire

Talk to us

Send us your SmugMug address and we'll tell you what the move looks like. Or call 0456 567 558.

Prices in Australian dollars, billed monthly.