Why PhotoShelter Offers the Optimal Solution for Safeguarding Your Entire Image Collection
What would happen if all of your photos disappeared overnight? Years of client work, building your portfolio, telling stories that matter and precious memories could all vanish instantly. Unfortunately this happens more often than we like – hard drives break, computers crash and hackers attack – making this unthinkable for professional photographers and an absolute worst case scenario.
If reading this has made you anxious, know that we have your back.
March 31st marks World Backup Day and PhotoShelter is here to offer some much-needed peace of mind by helping you protect your photos every single day! Don’t stress; our experts are always ready and waiting to bring that much-needed protection and peace of mind.
Here are seven things about PhotoShelter that may surprise you, and why we are the ideal solution to secure your photos.
1. PhotoShelter was the original cloud
Since 2005, PhotoShelter has operated its own secure, lightning-fast network that boasts 100% reliability – we never rely on other cloud platforms to keep your images secure, and have never lost a single bit of data! As one of the early pioneers of this technology we also possess more management experience than any other provider of this service.
2. Our infrastructure features geo-redundancy
From our network to servers to drives that store your photos, your backups have multiple copies in multiple geographic locations for maximum protection against hard drive failure or damage.
3. No restrictions on image type or size (with all of the storage you need!)
We allow you to back up ALL of your photos – not just JPEGs or smaller files like JPEGs. Upload any image format of any size; RAW files, TIFF files – with our Pro plan offering unrestricted storage capacity you can create an online image archive without restrictions!
4. Uploads Are Seamless
PhotoShelter makes uploading images simple, even with large batches to upload at once. Choose between drag-and-drop or our Lightroom and Photo Mechanic plugins – even FTPing straight from your camera is an option!
5. Easy Access
Storing all of your photos safely in an archive like PhotoShelter is great – but that doesn’t matter much if they can’t easily be accessed when needed. That moment could come right at home in front of the computer or out and about with just camera, phone and connection; either way we have you covered – instantly access your entire archive from any device, at any time and any place with just some wi-fi! (Thanks FileFlow!)
6. PhotoShelter Is More Than Backup
Your archive becomes so much more with our powerful, user-friendly tools – everything from creating websites and sharing and delivering work, selling prints or downloads is possible here.
7. Take Control, You Do It All
One of the best aspects of SmugMug is being in complete control: from organizing images and tags, to setting visibility and access permissions, or making photos public or sharing galleries with specific clients – whatever suits you is up for grabs – so take full advantage of it all and create something truly original and yours!