With years of photos tucked away on your home computer or spare hard drive, it might seem like a daunting, almost impossible task to transfer all your images online. Recreating the folder structure and organization doesn’t have to be tedious, though. With SmugMug’s latest update, we’re making smooth work of staying organized and uploading with ease.

Now you can drag entire folders straight into the SmugMug uploader in your browser instead of each picture individually. We’ll go ahead and create a gallery, or galleries, for you automatically. It’s as easy as that, and your new gallery will inherit the settings from its new parent folder or your main site settings. (We can hear your cheers right now!!)

Are you super organized? Don’t worry, we won’t tell. But if you are in fact one of those folks who has their sock drawer organized by material, length, and color, we have even better news for you. Even when all your photos are split into multiple nested folders across years and months, or specific trips or events, you can drag and drop the main parent folder that contains all those photos, and we’ll mirror the exact structure in folders and galleries on your SmugMug site. Talk about easy.

For you veteran SmugMuggers who have already created a gallery structure inside your own site, our new folder uploading will make your workflow even smoother. You never need to manually create folders and galleries again! If you have things set up the way you want locally, just make sure the name is correct, drag, drop, and do something awesome with the time you just saved. (Our recommendation may or may not involve petting a puppy while eating a bowl of ice cream.)

If you want to get started uploading folders, simply login to your SmugMug account, head over to your organizer, select where you’d like to upload your folder, click upload, and drag and drop your folder into the uploader. We’ll handle the rest. And that rest is pretty cool if we do say so ourselves.

Right now folder uploading is available on Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge web browsers. If you have questions or feedback check out our help pages or send a message to our Support Heroes. Happy uploading!