Pinterest will work with SmugMug on one condition....

Oakley · January 29, 2012

If you have "right-click" image protection enabled on your gallery, and try to "pin" a photo to your Pinterest account ---- you will not be able to.

The good news is that if you do pin an image, your SmugMug watermark will be retained in Pinterest.

Here's an example - http://pinterest.com/pin/165859198746572494/

Considering the growth of Pinterest in the realm of images and social bookmarking....what plans does SmugMug have for integration?

Cheers

Ryan

phototristan · January 29, 2012

Hi Oakley, thanks for letting us know. We are not able to make an announcement on new features/updates or things we may have under wraps.

SamirD · January 30, 2012

Hmmm...pinterest is being used a lot in Alabama, eh? Interesting. I live here and have never heard of it until today.

56Kruiser · February 9, 2012

From what I hear it is growing fast, although you must be invited to get in.

I too am interested in being able to have a Pinterest follow button. Hoping this becomes available soon.

LeeHawkins · February 13, 2012

"Pinterest"-ed
I too am interested in being able to pin things from my site to Pinterest, just like my FB & Twitter buttons!!!

rainforest1155 · February 14, 2012

You already can pin photos from your SmugMug site with the "pin it" button Pinterest themselves provides:
http://pinterest.com/about/goodies/#pinmarklet

If you scroll down on that page, pinterest also give you embed code that you can put on your site to allow visitors to click.

56Kruiser · February 21, 2012

LeeHawkins wrote: »

I too am interested in being able to pin things from my site to Pinterest, just like my FB & Twitter buttons!!!

The 'secret' is that you cannot have your pictures right-click protected. If you turn that off, it will work.

Andy · February 21, 2012

And, for any that do NOT want their images pinterested, (sitewide) regardless of RCP on or off, you can add this to your head tag of advanced customizing:

mkl · February 24, 2012

i thought i'd share the inelegant but functional solution i've come up with - this is a pin it button for your site that works with right-click protection on.

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1743792#post1743792

David Evertsen · March 13, 2012

Andy wrote: »

And, for any that do NOT want their images pinterested, (sitewide) regardless of RCP on or off, you can add this to your head tag of advanced customizing:

<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

Exactly want I was looking for, THANKS ANDY!!

Andy · March 13, 2012

David Evertsen wrote: »

Exactly want I was looking for, THANKS ANDY!!

But I wonder why you'd want to use this. Check out what Trey Ratcliff has to say, Pinterest is his #1 referring site back to his stuckincustoms SmugMug gallery.

adamjasonphoto · March 13, 2012

Andy wrote: »

But I wonder why you'd want to use this. Check out what Trey Ratcliff has to say, Pinterest is his #1 referring site back to his stuckincustoms SmugMug gallery.

maybe because photographers are still weary about what it means to have their images "pinned"
article: what-every-photographer-should-know-about-pinterest
http://www.pictage.com/blog/2012/03/01/what-every-photographer-should-know-about-pinterest
I am really torn on my feelings for pinterest at the moment

Andy · March 13, 2012

adamjasonphoto wrote: »

maybe because photographers are still weary about what it means to have their images "pinned"
article: what-every-photographer-should-know-about-pinterest
http://www.pictage.com/blog/2012/03/01/what-every-photographer-should-know-about-pinterest
I am really torn on my feelings for pinterest at the moment

Weary or leery? Or both?

Tiny images. Links back to your site. Watermark your images and Enjoy the traffic is what I say. But that's me

Bird Lady · March 15, 2012

Andy wrote: »

But I wonder why you'd want to use this. Check out what Trey Ratcliff has to say, Pinterest is his #1 referring site back to his stuckincustoms SmugMug gallery.

Andy, while looking for something else, I came across the following article today about a lawyer/photographer taking her images off Pinterest due to legal fears. (The article continues below the Google ads shown on the page.) http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-02-28/tech/31106641_1_repinning-copyright-entire-image

Any thoughts? Thanks!

Susan

Rich Kessler · April 3, 2012

Oakley wrote: »

If you have "right-click" image protection enabled on your gallery, and try to "pin" a photo to your Pinterest account ---- you will not be able to.

The good news is that if you do pin an image, your SmugMug watermark will be retained in Pinterest

Disabling the right-click, will that still keep your watermark on an image if anyone does a right-click to save or post the image elsewhere?

rainforest1155 · April 8, 2012

Rich Kessler wrote: »

Disabling the right-click, will that still keep your watermark on an image if anyone does a right-click to save or post the image elsewhere?

Right click protection isn't directly connected to the watermarking feature. If applied, the watermark will be on all photo sizes, except the original and thumbnails (you can enable thumbnail watermarking if you create a custom watermark).
Originals can't be watermarked and if you don't wish the unwatermarked original to be available for viewing, you should set 'largest size' in the gallery settings of the gallery to anything else than 'original'.
Additional image protection information are available here.

smhs.images · April 20, 2013

Work around for Pinterest button
The simplest way I have found to make this work for you (the photographer) is if you disable the right click protection and then pin whatever images from that gallery you want, then when you are done enable the right click protection again. Pinterest will retain the image and link back to your sight. A bit cumbersome but it allows you to add some of your photos to be shared in the pinterst community. The main drawback is that others still cannot pin your photos from your site. Only the ones that are already pinned in Pinterest will work from within Pinterest.

leftquark · January 19, 2015

For those that missed the announcement on the Product News Forum, Pinterest verification has been added and can be found in your account settings!
See http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=251717 and http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1256898-how-do-i-verify-my-smugmug-site-ownership-for-third-party-sites-and-tools-?b_id=1644

Pinterest will work with SmugMug on one condition....

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