SmugZei (SmugMug for Muzei)
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About SmugZei (SmugMug for Muzei)
SmugZei is a Muzei extension, which allows using any SmugMug gallery as the source of the photos for Muzei.
What is Muzei?
"Muzei is a live wallpaper that gently refreshes your home screen each day with famous works of art. It also recedes into the background, blurring and dimming artwork to keep your icons and widgets in the spotlight. Simply double touch the wallpaper or open the Muzei app to enjoy and explore the artwork in its full glory.", from Muzei's description.
Get Muzei from Google Play: http://get.muzei.co
What is SmugMug?
SmugMug is an online gallery, which many famous photographers use to publish their photos for everyone to see and/or buy. Anyone can create his own gallery there, with wide selection of designs for the web page. Check it out here: http://www.smugmug.com.
Who is on SmugMug anyway?
Trey Ratcliff, Scott Kelby, Thomas Hawk, Karen Hutton and many others. These are just the names that pop into my mind. I'm sure you'll find a bunch of other great photographers there.
How to change the source gallery?
Set any SmugMug gallery as the source simply by sharing the gallery web page with the SmugZei extension. Look at the screenshots or follow the in-app tutorial to get the idea how to do it.
By default, the source gallery is set to Trey Ratcliff's Portfolio gallery, which contains his beautiful HDR photos. For a lot of people, this could be the only thing they need from this extension - to see Trey's photos.
SmugZei always downloads photos in the maximal resolution of your phone, so they look sharp when you unblur them.
Note that not every SmugMug page is a gallery. The extension searches for the ATOM feed url in the shared page, which is only in galleries.
The name SmugZei is a combination of SmugMug and Muzei, because I wasn't sure if it's possible to name it "SmugMug for Muzei" due to copyright reasons.
What is Muzei?
"Muzei is a live wallpaper that gently refreshes your home screen each day with famous works of art. It also recedes into the background, blurring and dimming artwork to keep your icons and widgets in the spotlight. Simply double touch the wallpaper or open the Muzei app to enjoy and explore the artwork in its full glory.", from Muzei's description.
Get Muzei from Google Play: http://get.muzei.co
What is SmugMug?
SmugMug is an online gallery, which many famous photographers use to publish their photos for everyone to see and/or buy. Anyone can create his own gallery there, with wide selection of designs for the web page. Check it out here: http://www.smugmug.com.
Who is on SmugMug anyway?
Trey Ratcliff, Scott Kelby, Thomas Hawk, Karen Hutton and many others. These are just the names that pop into my mind. I'm sure you'll find a bunch of other great photographers there.
How to change the source gallery?
Set any SmugMug gallery as the source simply by sharing the gallery web page with the SmugZei extension. Look at the screenshots or follow the in-app tutorial to get the idea how to do it.
By default, the source gallery is set to Trey Ratcliff's Portfolio gallery, which contains his beautiful HDR photos. For a lot of people, this could be the only thing they need from this extension - to see Trey's photos.
SmugZei always downloads photos in the maximal resolution of your phone, so they look sharp when you unblur them.
Note that not every SmugMug page is a gallery. The extension searches for the ATOM feed url in the shared page, which is only in galleries.
The name SmugZei is a combination of SmugMug and Muzei, because I wasn't sure if it's possible to name it "SmugMug for Muzei" due to copyright reasons.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
In 1.2:
- Added Share functionality
- Fixed small bug when on some devices the resolution wasn't determined correctly
In 1.1:
- Added settings for limiting downloads to WiFi networks only
- Nicer UI
- Changed the default picture rotation interval to 6 hours
- Fixed small bug in SmugMug gallery synchronization
In 1.2:
- Added Share functionality
- Fixed small bug when on some devices the resolution wasn't determined correctly
In 1.1:
- Added settings for limiting downloads to WiFi networks only
- Nicer UI
- Changed the default picture rotation interval to 6 hours
- Fixed small bug in SmugMug gallery synchronization
More downloads SmugZei (SmugMug for Muzei) reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
What are users saying about SmugZei (SmugMug for Muzei)
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by Q####:
But major bug on my non big name phone... Always low resolution photos... Driving me mad... Love the idea but this low res destroys to point... Please reply for more info
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Liked pic choices. But, too complicated to add. Deleting.
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by Y####:
Same issue for me. Fine if you want to view Trey's pictures but when I try to view a smugmug gallery of my own I get a gallery not found message
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The picture get loaded in very poor quality
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i have a smugmug account, but when i try to use this app, i try to share the gallery with smugzie and i keep getting a message saying "Can't find smugmug gallery. are you sure you are sharing the right page" i've tried changing my permissions on the gallery and everything, but its still not working, rendering this app useless.
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by K####:
Works as expected
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Trey Ratcliff's pictures are just too beautiful :) Love every single one of it.
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by R####:
I love this, but it's having issues interacting with other apps. Everytime one of these other services runs, Smugzei stops.
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I really like this app. Photos are awesome, and I always look forward to the next wallpaper it will download! It surely makes my homescreen more beautiful!
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by C####:
Not one to rate a lot of apps however using Trey's portfolio is amazing. Love it.
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by C####:
IT WONT LET ME OPEN THE APP!!!! >:(
A
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by A####:
I love Muzei. It gives me a cool background look without fighting my icons. Then, whenever I feel like it, I can tape for a great, clear, look at my background picture. But, now, Ondrej Cermak has upped the ante by giving me a simple, easy way to make Trey Radcliffe's beautiful photography the source for those pictures! I use this dynamic duo on my Nexus 7 and on my Moto X.
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by C####:
Nice way to display your gallery.
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works perfectly, Extra cred for making Trey Ratcliff the default!
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by C####:
by C####:
It doesnt even say open just uninstall app in play store
U
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Not one to rate a lot of apps however using Trey's portfolio is amazing. Love it.
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by U####:
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IT WONT LET ME OPEN THE APP!!!! >:(
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by T####:
I love Muzei. It gives me a cool background look without fighting my icons. Then, whenever I feel like it, I can tape for a great, clear, look at my background picture. But, now, Ondrej Cermak has upped the ante by giving me a simple, easy way to make Trey Radcliffe's beautiful photography the source for those pictures! I use this dynamic duo on my Nexus 7 and on my Moto X.
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by U####:
by U####:
Nice way to display your gallery.
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by A####:
works perfectly, Extra cred for making Trey Ratcliff the default!
by Q####:
Does not work with protected galleries. Unfortunately not useable for me. Please add support for credentials, that would be awesome.